Adobe InDesign Middle Eastern CS6

[AVEbrahimi]

Hi

Where is the link to Adobe InDesign Middle Eastern CS6 Trial Download?

Thank you

[Joel Cherney]

Well, I said that I was writing it from memory - "no testing" is implied, right? It didn't occur to me that characterDirection options are a property of the WRC only, but you are 100% right. Moral of the story: if you need it to work the first time, give somebody some money. But not me!

[Trevor:]

Forgot to say that you can get an educational discount on the cloud

come to $20 a month for the whole range and of CS programs and I think about $8 for just ID (have to check into that)

The out lay is not too much.

Joel the real way to go is to change the composer, but as I said I'm scared of Harbs.

[Peter Spier]

~ Trevor ~ wrote:

but as I said I'm scared of Harbs.

Aw, C'mon. Harbs is a pussy cat.

[Trevor:]

More like Raw, he's a lion

[Trevor:]

Got a bit worried here that some nutter would take me seriously

Harbs a good guy and a big help to hundreds if not thousands.

If he wasn't a good guy I would make my own Middle East, Chinese etc. plugin and sell it but I don't want to take away from his livelihood.

[MartinMarseille]

Hi Levleo, I tried what you said, using English يدعم العربية and re-installed InDesign. I don't seem to see a difference in InDesign, like right to left & left to right buttons. Do you see a difference in the menus?

What I'm trying to do is work on a project started in CS5 N. African version for Mac.

  As I scroll up and down, I can see everything in the file. As soon as I stop on any page, more than half of the text and images become invisible. I can highlight the invisible text, even edit it in Arabic, but it remains invisible, which is not really a practical way of working... Any ideas, apart from concluding that CS6 for Win is just too different from CS5 N.African for Mac?

[Joel Cherney]

Hi Martin,

I am not a Creative Cloud user, so I have no idea how to use the Application Manager to get an RTL-enabled install of InDesign. But the behavior you report:

  As I scroll up and down, I can see everything in the file. As soon as I stop on any page, more than half of the text and images become invisible. I can highlight the invisible text, even edit it in Arabic, but it remains invisible, which is not really a practical way of working... Any ideas, apart from concluding that CS6 for Win is just too different from CS5 N.African for Mac?

sounds for all the world like a video-card driver issue. I had similar issues in complex scripts that I could resolve temporarily by a) only using PageUp and PageDown, never using the scroll wheel, and 2) zooming in and out to get the characters to redraw. Unfortunately, the only permanent solution was to find updated video card drivers.

[MartinMarseille]

Thanks Joel, I'll check that out. I'm on a new computer, so it could well be.

[MartinMarseille]

Ok, updated to the latest nVidia driver and this has cured the problem. I can now open the file started on CS5 N. Africa for Mac. Seems that the extra you get when using using Levleo's tip to get Arabic capability is the World Ready Composer, (that I used back in CS4 but hadn't been officially implemented). Whatever, it seems to allow me to work on the Arabic enough to do the job 🙂  or am I likely to run into limitations?

[Peter Spier]

My understanding is that Adobe has brought the ME version in-house rather than having WinSoft write the additional modules, but it will be a while before it is available.

[Steve Werner]

When WinSoft was developing the ME versions, there was always a lag between a new InDesign release and the release of the ME version. I suspect this may still be true (just guessing, no inside knowledge).