Middle Eastern version doesn't work

[Lil Sher]

Hi, I just downloaded Creative Cloud. I changed the preferences to English supports Hebrew, but it doesn't work. There is no option to change to Right to Left in Paragraph or Character windows. PLEASE HELP!!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

This doesn't work?

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/access-install-hebrew-arabic-indesign-illustrator-CC.html

Then try this:

https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/10/switching-indesigns-ui-language-in-windows#c372

[Lil Sher]

For the first link, it looks a bit different to the instructions.

But if we assume it is supposed to do the same thing and doesn't work, do you know how to do it on a Mac?

Thanks

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

https://ken-lunde.medium.com/adobe-indesign-tips-japanese-cjk-functionality-english-ui-redux-539528e...

You need to scroll halfway:

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The following is the path to the file that needs to be tweaked (if you are using an older version of Adobe InDesign, you simply need to replace “Adobe InDesign 2020” with the appropriate folder name):

/Applications/Adobe InDesign 2020/Presets/applicationpreferences/indesign/

Of course, if you use the Terminal app to navigate to the path shown above, you either need to surround the entire path in quotes, or prefix the two instances of space in “Adobe InDesign 2020” with a backslash as follows:

/Applications/Adobe\ InDesign\ 2020/…

The tweak is to the file applicationpreference.plist, specifically to change the value that is associated with the Feature Set Locale Setting key, from 256 (English) to 257 (Japanese), which affects a single character:

<integer>257</integer>

The only other possible setting for this value is 259, which exposes full Middle Eastern (aka Arabic) text layout functionality.

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[Lil Sher]

Thank you 🙂

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Thank you 🙂

By @Lil Sher

You are welcome.