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Filling a form in Arabic

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November 10, 2016
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Hey all,

I am filling a PDF using Arabic alphabets. it seems fine while I am printing them, as Shown:

But when I save the file, then open it, the Arabic alphabets characters I printed on the file is shown as separated characters !

I updated the software, and restarted my PC but the problem still occurs.

I am using Windows 7 Professional - 64 bit OS.

Thanks in advanced,
Aziz

arabic language

Correct answer Zaid Al Hilali

The discussion here is about Fill & Sign which fails with Arabic. However, Acrobat supports forms with Arabic content very well.

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Alansari36328231whmf

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try firefox browser

Yasmeen_Salawy

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hello everyone, I was able to fix the problem by adding my arabic text as a signature to fill my form. hope that will help

regards

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Ax4

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Work around solution. Not the practical way.

It is not practical to make new signature for each sentence.

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loayalasiri

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Hebrew text entered using Fill & Sign gets reversed on save

i hepo that help you

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abdullaha92678891

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any new updates ? , i'm still facing the same issue

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

No Abdullah, not fixed yet.

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mohamedk88862807

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I have same issue here

hammamd52655171

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It seems that acrobat dc does not handle Arabic script properly when comes to forms. Even if you try to print, the filled up Arabic text will be revered. The only solution that I know is to revert back to acrobat reader 11

Zaid Al Hilali

Correct answer

Community Expert

The discussion here is about Fill & Sign which fails with Arabic. However, Acrobat supports forms with Arabic content very well.

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RS Ong

Participant

Hello,

I'd like to check if there has been a fix on this issue when filling a form in Arabic. My colleague said that the characters get separated when she tries to fill the form.

Thank you.

NabeelFA

Participant

I am facing the same issue with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Architecture: x86_64

Build: 17.9.20058.234434

AGM: 4.30.69

CoolType: 5.14.5

JP2K: 1.2.2.38123

and even on Windows edition....

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

By the way Aziz,

In order to fill the form now properly, just don't use "Fill & Sign" feature, use "Edit PDF" rather so you may type Arabic and print it properly.

NabeelFA

Participant

Not working Filling a form in Arabic

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

Marhaba Nabeel

You need to have Adobe Acrobat Pro or Standard in order to type on the PDF in Arabic.

Ideally, the form creator should convert the form into what we call eForm so that any one with the free Adobe Reader can fill it up, save it, and share it or even better Submit it to the sender using native PDF capabilities. You need to tell us more so we can suggest some thing suitable to you.

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

Marhaba Aziz,

Adobe Fill & Sign have problem with Arabic script. When you fill the form, all appears fine, once you leave the "Fill & Sign" workspace whatever you typed in Arabic will be scrambled as it appears in your screenshot.

Acrobat team please address this issue.

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srinatht92941385

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Hello,

Perhaps you can assist us. We have created an editable PDF form in Arabic and English. When we test it on our systems, the Arabic words typed get flipped and spell backwards. And at the client end, the client is unable to enter any Arabic content at all

The English form works fine.

Could you please advise?

Thank you

Srinath

Adorobat

Community Manager

Hi abdulazizalmoh

Assuming you are using Acrobat Reader to fill the form, could you please let me know the version of Acrobat Reader installed on the machine?

Launch Reader>About Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

Have you tried with another file?

What is the workflow you are following?

Would it be possible to share the form with us, i have sent you a private message for the same, please respond to that message.

Thank You,

Shivam

KM961

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I am facing the same issue while filling out a form in Arabic. It seems to only work if the form is opened in Firefox, but not Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or other apps, which is a major issue. Do you have any updates on this? For example, here is the result for احمد (Ahmad):