Right to Left Text (Arabic)?

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October 9, 2024
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Hi everybody, I am trying to work with RTL text in Illustrator but I can’t change the paragraph direction so the punctuation appears at the wrong side of the text. This page, link below, says you can select the paragraph direction from the Paragraph panel. However, that option is not in my paragraph panel! Does anybody know why I don’t have those buttons in my panel? Thanks for your help.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/using/arabic-hebrew.html

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Correct answer silk-m

I don't know for sure, but the difference seems to be that there are East Asian and Indic options.

If you don't use those languages, then the English Arabic/Hebrew version alone should be fine.

silk-m

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To install the Arabic/Hebrew version of Illustrator, see this thread.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/hebrew-typing-backwards/td-p/14903378

--Susumu Iwasaki

Gareth_WilliamsAuthor

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Thanks Silk, I’ll check that out! Do you know if you can do everything in the English Arabic/Hebrew version that you can do in the default version that I’ve already got installed or would I have to have two versions installed? If so that would be a bit annoying but not the end of the world!