The "Paragraph Direction" controls appears in the Middle Eastern version of InDesign and Illustrator. If you think these controls are necessary for your work, you'd need to follow the steps illustrated on top of this page to install another InDesign version that supports Arabic which we call Middle Eastern version. ... View more

I just made a test to verify whether searching Arabic content in the a PDF works on iPhone or not. I can confirm what @mattai313 mentioned is accurate. Here, I searched for the word القطري on the first page of the document using Acrobat Pro on my iPhone, Acrobat failed to highlight the word or jump to whereabouts that word exists on the document. I switched the keyboard input Language to English, I searched for number "6", Acrobat jumped to the Table of Content, it highlighted the numeral "6" in a pink colour.   Here is a video where I searched for the word القطري, you can see Acrobat didn't act and didn't search even. At the end of the video clip, I double-tapped the word القطري manually to highlight it and show you that it exists on the PDF.   Note. I tested this same PDF document on my Mac using Acrobat Pro, the behaviour is as expected, Acrobat was able to find all instances of that Arabic word.   ... View more

After seeing the screenshots you shared with us here, it appears that you don't have the Middle Eastern version which will provide full Right-to-Left controls you require. Here is my Paragraph panel… And here is your's… Notice, you're missing the Paragraph Directions controls that will force your pargraphs throghout your document to flow right to left, and these two button controls will make sure the punctuation marks to appear at the end of the paragraph ie. on the left. As many have suggested, you need to remove your current Illustrator, HOWEVER, when you uninstall Illustrator, make sure you choose the "Remove" button shown below…   Once you have successfully removed/uninstalled your Illustrator, make sure to have your Laguage set to "English/يدعم العربية" then download a fresh Illustrator copy. ... View more

Photoshop Elements never had an Arabic support enabled. You may want to consider subscribing to Photoshop which has pretty good amount of Right-to-Left controls for Arabic/Farsi/Kurdish/Urdu and similar languages. ... View more

Oh, I just realized that "Reading Order" in the Preferences isn't related to the page order display. I believe it is related to the Accessibility and Read Out Loud option under the View menu. ... View more

Hi Mike, I used this feature in a number of occaisons. When I open an Arabic magazine, or long Arabic report, this reading feature along with the "Two-page view" allows me to view facing pages on my screen where page 1 on the right and page 2 on the left. Note, since I view long English documents as well, I'd rather leave the preferences settings to the default, but change the Reading Options in the "Document Properties" only. ... View more

When you Uninstall from the Creative Cloud desktop application, you will see the below message, make sure to click the "Remove" button in oreder to clean up the settings. Having said that, even if you remove your ME version, then install a fresh Dutch version, when you open a document that was created in, or saved from an ME version of InDesign, most of the Right-to-Left symptoms will stay in the document and influence your InDesign within this particular document. In this case I recommend that you continue to use the ME version of InDesign for this particular document only. ... View more

I suppose at this stage, you need to switch the Paragraph direction to Left-to-Right in order to get the punctuation marks at the right end of your paragraphs. This switching option exists in the Middle Eastern version, however, I've seen the script here on InDedsign community forum before, the script should be helpful to you. ... View more

I believe you've figured it out, the Arabic document has influenced your InDesign somehow. When I select the Right-to-Left "Binding" option upon creating a new document, and even if I don't check "Facing Page" on, I will get the issue you described after publishing my document online. I don't know how you will fix the problem since you will not see the "Binding" switching option in the menu (File > Document Setup) since you don't have the Middle Eastern version of InDesign.   Kindly try to see if "Document Setup" window will give you the choice to switch your binding direction to Left-to-Right as illustrated below, if you don't have it, then someone may help you by providing you a script. ... View more

Adobe applications doesn't support AXT (Arabic Extension) fonts which were developed for QuarkXpress. You need to acquire other supported font such as TT or OTF fonts. ... View more

Delete my post please! ... View more

Dear Abhishek, The suggestion provided by Mostafa has been suggested previously. Kindly refer to my post dated Nov 29th 2023 with Illustration of where to select "None" for the Kashida. However, this was not recommended since the original poster wanted a Kashida, hence this issue is a bug and was treated by Joel and others including I as a bug. InDesign didn't have this issue in earlier versions, we need the development team to address this matter. ... View more

Here is a page sample from my client, I cleanedup few elements, and left the font in for proper testing, kindly don't share the font(s).   ... View more

I did try as many tricks I had under my sleeve before posting, one of which was changing the Language as shown below… The more I think about it, I admit that InDesign is providing a logical behaviour for this percentage, and there is nothing wrong with the percentage symbol appearing on the right side of the number. See, when we type Arabic we would ideally select the appropriate input keyboard for Arabic that will force the input cursor to move right-to-left hence any number with a percentage symbol will appear correctly to the left as ٪٣،١٠ (note this is ٪ percentage symbol in Arabic).  Since the client is switching to English keyboard input when they type the number 3.10%, InDesign considers this as English or left-to-right text hence the symbol to the right. What the client is claiming is that this behaviour was not like this in the previous InDesign version and that they need the percentage symbol to appear to the left of the figure as they used to. Once again, I started to be convinced that InDesign is doing the right thing, it is just the client who's used to something odd. @Dirk Becker back to your idea, although your suggestion didn't work, however even if your idea worked, the client will still need to visit many numbers on the document to fix it manually. The provided GREP solution will universally give the client what they need. Thanks for your input though. ... View more

Thank you Peter. The GREP query worked like a charm. With regards to your experience when you type, you get the percentage symbol to the left by default. Well, the client and myself didn't have the issue explained in my original post till we updated to the latest InDesign Middle Eastern version v.20.0 so my guess is that Adobe changed something in the text engine.   Note. I posted this case from another machine, I didn't notice that I wasn't using this Adobe profile! ... View more

I add my voice to your request. It is been a decade or so since we had the broken letters sample preview. ... View more

Adobe stopped producing their apps. with Arabic interface, however, there are a number of Adobe applications with good level of Arabic language support. ... View more

لايوجد واجهة باللغة العربية لبرامج ادوبي ... View more

هنالك جوانب في البرنامج داعمة للغة العربية، للأسف لم تعطنا اي تفاصيل لكي اتمكن من المساعدة. ارجو ان توضح بالتفصيل كما انا طلبت سابقاً لأتمكن من المساعدة. فمثلاً إذا انت تعمل على استمارة فالبرنامج داعم للعربي، أما إذا انت تريد ان تحرر مستند بي دي اف بمحتوى عربي فللأسف هذا غير ممكن لحد الان ... View more

Rishabh, any solution to this issue, quite few clients reporting it, the students cannot see XD in the application folder, however, if accessed with Admin rights, then they can see it! ... View more

I'm trying to replicate the issue on my machine, so I downloaded Al Majeed Qur'anic font, the "Aya" brackets you pointed at are not part of the font as far as I can see. Now with so limited information you're providing, I may not be able to assist you. Kindly provide more details.   Here is the Glyphs chart for the font, I don't see the brackets… ... View more

Salamun alaikum, which font are you using, and what method did you use to convert to PDF? ... View more

Then for sure you will not get a decent Right-to-left controls. At the time when Adobe used to sell CS6 and prior, we had to install the Middle Eastern version which used to come on a separate DVD, so it is not a matter of additional plug-in that you can download now for example. ... View more

Are you using the Middle Eastern version of InDesign? ... View more

I'm not sure if you're reporting a bug, or asking for help to sort out a ten years old InDesign CS6? InDesign 2024 doesn't have the problem you're describing. Here is a screenshot from Id. v. 19.5… My guess is the font you're using isn't compatible with Id CS6. Use another font such as Arial for testing. ... View more

as I have noticed that RTL (Right-to-Left) support is incomplete. By @mahmoud_3224   Good observation. As far as we know, Adobe Express team are working on increasing Arabic support on the platform. I hope they notice your comment and pay attention to the feature you asked for.   Here, we're at a community forums, I strongly suggest that you log this issue you noticed at the Adobe bug report/feature request portal to get the right attention.    ... View more

مرحبا طارق التعليمات التي وضعتها لك  @Joel Cherney  هي السليمة، فقط عليك ازالة برنامج الانديزاين من جهازك ولاتنسى ان تضغط زر  Remove عند ازالة البرنامج لكي تنزل عند النسخة الجديدة بشكل نظيف للعلم فإن امكانية قلب التصميم من اليسار لليمن وبالعكس ماتزال موجودة ولم يتم ازالتها وستجدها بالقائمة التالية Layout > Reverse Layout ... View more

The issue you're describing is different to the topic on this post. Acrobat do fail messribly upon exporting a PDF when the content is in Arabic Langauge. It is been years since we brought this matter to Acrobat team's attention. You may vote on fixing this bug here. ... View more