MENA Indesign is defaulting to right-to-left. Pdfs are arranged right to left if i organize pages

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October 21, 2022
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I have gotten the MENA version because I have to do some docs using Arabic. I got that figured out OK, but now I want to go back to creating a document in English. However, when I import text from Word the placement arrow icon points from right to left. The continuation icon on a the text boxes is at lower left instead of lower right, and when I make a pdf, the pages display from left to right.

When I create a new text box on the page, or if I copy from Word and paste into a text box it acts normally. . However, when I make a pdf the pages still array right to left.

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Easiest way: Create an empty document in a LTR document, best in a LTR only version and import all styles when no document is open,

Create a template for each language.

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SilbStu작성자

Inspiring

do you mean to take an existing document, clean everything out and rework it as needed for a new document?

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

No, I'm not 100% sure what Willi is suggesting, but the 98% that I'm seeing here is entirely correct. When you click File -> New (or whack Command+N, or whatever it is you do to start a new document) you have some choices, right? One of those is the binding, where you can choose spine-right or spine-left. Default with a new install of MENA InDesign would be spine-right. If you choose spine left, then that should fix your RTL PDFs

BUT BUT BUT

there are dozens of preferences related to directionality that are set up as RTL defaults in MENA Indy. So, with no documents open, you can:

import a default set of LTR styles
long-click on the type tool and choose "Type Tool" instead of "ME Type Tool" which means that your new text frames that you draw with this tool will show LTR behavior instead of RTL behavior
and so on

On top of that, you could start a new LTR document with the spine-left binding, then set it up so it's all as LTR as you could possibly want, then Save As an INDT. That's an InDesign Template, and it's really useful when you might want to start one of a variety of types of documents. I don't start many documents myself (I am far more likely to work in my clients' completed documents than to build something from the ground up) but even so I have some templates called "EN-US" and "Euro" and "RTL" and "South Asian" and "SE Asian" and "Ethiopic" and so on. Each one has distinct settings for the destination locale.

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