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powerful_mindset5C18
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December 24, 2019
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Arabic ePub Issue from InDesign

  • December 24, 2019
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Hello All,

 

The one on Left side is how it looks as ePub, InDesign is on the right side. Any idea how can I fix this?

 

I am using InDesign 2019 on Windows, there is no overriddes and everythign is styles... also I am using Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer for the justification composer. Tried to change the fonts and Ligatures is Disabled.

 

Any Ideas? Thanks

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foaad61
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March 2, 2022

I am having the same issue with a 67 page Farsi book. The print is fine and I successfully created a reflowable ePub with some issues like footnote numbering. However, I just uninstalled and are-installed 2022 version 17.01 and I cannot create a fixed ePub in Farsi. This has been an issue since 2018 and the Adobe Indesign team has not found a solution or a workaround???

I appreciate any solutions? 

Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
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March 2, 2022

As far as I know there are aome limitations to RTL (ARABIC, FARSI, HEBREW) exports with EPUB and PDF.

Zaid Al Hilali
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Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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March 2, 2022
@Willi Adelberger wrote:

As far as I know there are aome limitations to RTL (ARABIC, FARSI, HEBREW) exports with EPUB and PDF.

It is totally true with EPUB, however, Exporting to PDF is stable and smooth from my experience. Did someone report an issue when exporting Arabic content to PDF?

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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    September 6, 2020

    Hi Ahmad,

    This issue has been reported to Adobe as a bug, you may vote to grab InDesign's development team attention to this matter here… https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/41322403-arabic-exported-to-epub-fixed-layout-doesn-t-sho

    powerful_mindset5C18
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    September 7, 2020

    Hey Zaid,

     

    I just did voting this up 🙂

    powerful_mindset5C18
    powerful_mindset5C18Author
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    August 25, 2020

    Now I am using the Latest Adobe InDesign 2020 15.1.1

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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    August 25, 2020

    It is happening with me too. I cannot publish Arabic contnet properly as I used to do with Fixed-Layout option!

    powerful_mindset5C18
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    August 25, 2020

    I think it has something to do with new InDesign maybe? But for me it has been always the case even with any previous InDesign

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    Adnan99
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    January 2, 2020

    Maybe type it out in AI and place that in your InDesign file and export.

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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    January 14, 2020

    I don't usually output to ePub unless it is for demo purposes, hence I'm not an expert on this topic. having said that, I was successfully able to output below on Mac (Catalina), InDesign 2020, using "Adobe Arabic" font, I put together a 4 pages Arabic article and output it to ePub reflowable, the result was satisfactory when viewed on Apple "Books" viewer.

    Can you simplify your publication for the sake of testing, remove any images, borders, and keep text only, perhaps one page.

    powerful_mindset5C18
    powerful_mindset5C18Author
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    August 25, 2020

    Thank you Zaid,

     

    But the issue is with the Fixed Layout

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    December 29, 2019

    Try InDesign 2020 and beyond the Books app on iOS and Mac, fixed layout is really not a good format.

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    Adnan99
    Participant
    December 29, 2019

    Hi Bob - Thanks for the suggestions: I've already got InDesign 2020, and I just searched the App store for "Beyond" but didn't find any books' app.

     

    The book I'm trying to release looks super as a fixed layout ePub, except for this little Arabic problem.

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    December 29, 2019

    The Books app is preinstalled with iOS and Mac OS. There's nothing to look for. It used to be called iBooks.

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    Adnan99
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    December 29, 2019

    Hi Ahmed, I'm having a similar problem, and I'm relatively new on InDesign. Did you solve yours?

    powerful_mindset5C18
    powerful_mindset5C18Author
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    August 25, 2020

    unfortunately not yet

    David Popham
    David Popham
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    December 24, 2019

    Have you tried using a different EPUB reader to see what the results are? Some may not have the same level of support for RTL languages. Also, what font are you using, and are you embedding the font in the EPUB?

    powerful_mindset5C18
    powerful_mindset5C18Author
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    December 25, 2019

    Hey David,
    Yes I have tried different epub readers and all exactly same result, I even extracted the ePub to check the HTML itself and it is still broken. font is Adobe Arabic.

    Regarding the font embedding, doesn’t InDesign do this Automatically?

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