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This option is not even available under DOCUMENT SETUP. Where do we find "text direction" in InDesign?
InDesign is completely acting up on my eBook with no solution available!
By @andre235385320rop
Are you using a Middle East version of InDesign? What are your InDesign and operating system versions? And what problem exactly are you experiencing?
This option is not even available under DOCUMENT SETUP. Where do we find "text direction" in InDesign?
The option probably isn't available in your localization of InDesign. You're probably using US English, right? If you'd downloaded a Middle East version, you'd know it, and if you went to the Page Setup you could change the value:
This is a bug that I see here periodically, where users report that their document is behaving in some kind of right-to-left way, without any idea how it got set up that way. This script will check for right-to-left binding and set it to left-to-right, as your English localization of InDesign is only missing the UI elements that would allow you to control this setting.
#target indesign
var doc = app.activeDocument;
if (doc.documentPreferences.pageBinding == PageBindingOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT) {
// Document is currently set to right-to-left binding
alert("Document is set to Right-to-Left binding.\nChanging to Left-to-Right binding...");
// Change to left-to-right binding
doc.documentPreferences.pageBinding = PageBindingOptions.LEFT_TO_RIGHT;
alert("Successfully changed document binding to Left-to-Right.");
} else if (doc.documentPreferences.pageBinding == PageBindingOptions.LEFT_TO_RIGHT) {
// Document is already set to left-to-right binding
alert("Document is already set to Left-to-Right binding.\nNo changes needed.");
}
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