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Enable Arabic in Ai CC?

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July 16, 2013
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Hello,

I hope someone can give me a clear answer, Adobe support was no support at all. In Ai CS6 all you had to do is enable Arabic in the preferences through the Adobe Applications Manager and reinstal an updated version of Ai without the need to purchase a Middle East version. When I upgraded to CC it appeared to be the same, however when I opened Ai after going through a similar procedure, there was no left-to-right capabilities for the Type tool nor in the Paragraphs options. However InDesign CC does have these capabilities and it worked quite easily.

After the Adobe Support tech ran me through the same process I already did, she tried to tell me that I have to purchase a ME version of CC but I'd have to go to Best Buy or a 3rd party to purchase it because Adobe doesn't sell it online. Firstly, why didn't she say this from the start? Secondly, does that make sense that CC or "Creative Cloud" which is online based services is not available online but in retail stores???? Adobe.com has 2 different pages listing specs for CC, one does not show Arabic language support for it (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/tech-specs.html) while the main page featuring Ai does show it (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/tech-specs.html), although it says in a ME version. But in CS6, ME was integrated into the apllications so has Adobe reverted to previous practices of seperate versions for other languages? I hope not, this was a wonderful advantage and feature!

Any clarity on this is much appreciated!

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Try and activate the Indic type support in preferences.

Then in paragraph panel select the arabic & indic type composer.

Also align right.

Does that work for you?

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assia_cami

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Hi Monica,

Thanks for your enlightement. It really worked well for me thank you

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renada5524412

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adrianaz34596602

click on the small icon on the top right in paragraph panel and choose the option in the image.

this will fix the broken arabic letters

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alia18330048

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what should I do

The image is not identical with me

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moejalala87

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You are a legend

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noshin33818417

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Hi, I have tried that and it worked for the text but it did not change my digits to arabic digits! Also I don't have the arabic & indic type composer option.

Monika Gause

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noshin33818417 schrieb:
Hi, I have tried that and it worked for the text but it did not change my digits to arabic digits! Also I don't have the arabic & indic type composer option.

Did you install an Arabic version?

Arabic and Hebrew type in Illustrator

Change the language setting of Adobe Creative Cloud apps

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usmann41187863

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YEEAAAAHH!!!!

pioneerp73453185

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Hi,

I am using CC me Illustrator but not changing Arabic Digits only any font changing only showing Adobe Arabic Font,

pls help me...

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Sarah AlZaabi

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thats really great it worked fine,

thank you so much

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ehudsegev

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It worked half way for me.

I'm using Illustrator CC but when I type although it writes from Right to Left the dots, question marks etc all jump to the right as if I'm writing in English...

So it drives me crazy :-)

And I don't have the option to change it to RTL in the paragraph tab...

Anyone else encounters this?

The little button that usually allows you to change from LTR to RTL in paragraph doesn't appear in my installation and I also changed in settings the language as described above, uninstalled the software and installed it again. Still doesn't work.

Please help??? Thank you!!!

sarfrazk36328862

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Its the same problem with me. I have spent over 75 minutes now trying to sort this out. This is ridiculous. It was so much more convenient in earlier versions when one could easily toggle between the text directions.