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rickburress
rickburress
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April 30, 2018
Question

InDesign keeps pasting as Arabic Language Dictionary

  • April 30, 2018
  • 13 replies
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This is happening to us in the CC2018 13.1 version.

I only saw one earlier example mentioned in the Forums (with CC2014).

Whenever a chunk of text, or text box is pasted into a fresh document, the language is Arabic. [Basic Paragraph] and all other styles have been set to English USA, and even though I do a find format/change format in the offending document, it still pastes as Arabic.

Exporting to .IDML, and reimporting did not solve.

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    Zaid Al Hilali
    Community Expert
    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 1, 2018
    • Can you tell us if your InDesign is a Middle Eastern version or not?
    • Apparently this issue shows when you paste text, can you tell us what is the source of the text, eg. is it an existing InDesign document, MS. Word document or copying from the web?
    • Is the text you're copying and pasting has any Arabic in it?
    rickburress
    rickburressAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2018

    It is not a Middle Eastern version of InDesign.

    Bill Silbert
    Community Expert
    Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 30, 2018

    With no document open go to the Character Panel and make sure that the Language is set to "English USA". Then go into the Paragraph Styles Panel and double-click on the Basic Paragraph Style. In the Advanced Character Formats section make sure that "Language:" is set to English USA. After you've set it in these places, quit InDesign. When you relaunch it will become the default for the program. See screen shot.

    rickburress
    rickburressAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2018

    Bill, Thank you.

    This is not our issue.

    (I am an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, by the way,) and this one is a stumper, a glitch. It's not preferences. When a text box is copied from the offending document and into another fresh Indesign document, from another computer (or TO another computer) it still pastes as Arabic, and flushes right.

    Bill Silbert
    Community Expert
    Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 1, 2018

    What happens if you adjust the language in the Character Panel and Paragraph Styles Panel after you paste in the text frames?

    What happens if you just copy and paste the text from the original document into a fresh text frame in the new InDesign file?

    amaarora
    amaarora
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2018

    Hi,

    Can you see what happens when you change the language from the character panel when no documents are open in Indesign.

    Also, did you try to clean both your cache and preferences?https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990#

    -Aman

    rickburress
    rickburressAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2018

    Thank you, for the response, Aman.
    This is not our issue.

    (I am an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, by the way,) and this one is a stumper, a glitch. It's not preferences. When a text box is copied from the offending document and into another fresh Indesign document, from another computer (or TO another computer) it still pastes as Arabic, and flushes right.

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