Arabic letters are separted in sign and fill

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good day dears,

i'm facing an issue in sign and fill when i try to write in arabic as shown in the attached screenshot

the letters are separed indivdually it has to be connected.

my version is 2020.012.20043

Zaid Al Hilali · Accepted Answer

Adobe Fill and Sign doesn't support the Arabic language fully yet, we have requested the Acrobat team to fix this bug as shown here.

I believe the issue is fixable if the Acrobat development team would look at this test I made… Type Arabic in Fill & Sign, the letters are incorrectly disjointed, exit Fill & Sign environment, choose to Edit the PDF, and add any character to the sentence I typed in Fill & Sign, even when adding a simple space, you will see the characters joins normally as they should appear!

wise_Euphoriae6c9 · Answer

This happens because the Fill & Sign text tool doesn’t support Arabic shaping, so each letter is drawn on its own and the word comes out separated. A few things that work:

1- In Acrobat Pro: Edit → Preferences → Language → turn on “Enable Right-to-Left language options”, then restart Acrobat. Use Prepare Form to add a text field, set its font to one that supports Arabic (Arial, Tahoma or Segoe UI), and type in the field instead of using Fill & Sign.
2- If you only have Reader: type the text in Word, make it the right size, and paste it onto the page as an image. It isn’t editable afterwards, but the letters stay joined.
3- Check the result in another viewer (Chrome or Edge) before sending, because some viewers show Arabic form fields differently.

Disclosure: I build a browser PDF editor made for Arabic, GenPDF, which keeps letters joined when you type or fill in Arabic. It has a free daily plan if you want to try your file there: genpdf.com/ar

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