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December 4, 2017
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Full justify arabic text

  • December 4, 2017
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hi my arabic text when i make it full justify looks like this

what is the problem

InDesign cc2017

thank you

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    Correct answer manal shanableh

    go to Type > Show Hidden Characters

    you will notice the the blue characters and notice what is the sign at last of sentence, select it and replace it with a space.

    also you can copy it, and press cmd F (find and change) past it in find what and change to press space and change all

    this character name is: forced line braek it looks like you copy the text from browser.

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    manal shanableh
    manal shanablehCorrect answer
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    December 4, 2017

    go to Type > Show Hidden Characters

    you will notice the the blue characters and notice what is the sign at last of sentence, select it and replace it with a space.

    also you can copy it, and press cmd F (find and change) past it in find what and change to press space and change all

    this character name is: forced line braek it looks like you copy the text from browser.

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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    December 5, 2017

    Oh my God Manal, how could you suggest a thing so wrong, replacing Paragraph Break with a space. Seriously!! This suggestion will ruin long articles.

    InDesign with Middle Eastern features has the MIDDLE EASTERN features for this purpose you know.

    Here are the options you ought to try…

    Select full text, then in Paragraph Panel use "Justify with last line aligned right".

    If you didn't like the result, you can go back to the "Justify All Lines" as it was before but test other features such as:

    Select full text, now click on the "Insert Kashida" drop menu to choose a longer Kashida length.

    Also try both World Ready Single Line Composer and World Ready Paragraph Composer as each will affect your paragraphs and lines differently.

    Now you may want to try different combinations with above displayed Middle Eastern options, as the more you play with them, the more you understand how they function but please don't insert unnecessary spaces in your text.

      Jongware
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      JongwareCommunity Expert
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      December 5, 2017

      Zaid, my request for an image with invisibles was so we can check if each line ends with a paragraph return (unlikely), a forced line break (very likely! – considering the odd random breaks and the fact that there should be plenty of space for the first word in the next line), or (rather unlikely) something less expected, such as lots and lots of spaces between each word.

      Note that Manal does not suggest to replace paragraph breaks, but forced line breaks. As OP chose not to show us but Manal's post seems to have solved the problem, I guess it were indeed lots of forced line breaks in there.

      (That said, your general advice is of course totally correct for Arabic typesetting.)

        Jongware
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        JongwareCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        December 4, 2017

        Post that image again, but with invisible characters showing.

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