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No Right-to-Left toggle in Paragraph panel when Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer is in effect

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January 5, 2022
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So for background, I'm a professional freelance designer with an individual user Adobe CC subscription...

I do occassional translation jobs for clients involving Arabic translations. However, I don't have the right-to-left toggle for my text direction when I use Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer.

The clients who send me this work are usually agencies with multi-user subscriptions and they have this feature. Both myself and the agencies I work with have the English version of Adobe CC.

The only 'workaround' I've been given is to completely switch my Adobe CC to Middle Eastern, which is obviously not an option as I don't know of potential effects this could have on my other work, not to mention to the cost of the time to do this every time.

Why should I have to do this when my business subscription colleagues have the feature? I pay an equivalent fee per month?

If anyone has a solution for this, other than the workaround of copying text boxes out of an already formatted document, I would really appreciate it?

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Correct answer Peter Spier

Right-to-left support that you want is only available in the regional editions designed to support right-to-left languages.

Switcing to the ME version should not affect your other work, though there may be some other bugs not present in the US/European versions.

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Dianne at Allegra

Inspiring

I am having the same issue. I just reinstalled ID with the English Arabic preference check in CC and still no right reading option in either my paragraph or character settings. Not only did it not work, but it cost me 30 mins of wasted time.

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

Uninstall the existing version from your device and make sure to remove Preference when prompted. Set Language to English يدعم العربية, then reinstall InDesign.

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Dianne at Allegra

Inspiring

basically exactly what I just attempted to do. I'll try again, but seems if Illustrator had a right reading function why can't InDesign without going through all this!?! Plus each time I do this I loose all my plug-ins and scripts! VERY frustrating.

Peter Spier

Correct answer

Community Expert

Right-to-left support that you want is only available in the regional editions designed to support right-to-left languages.

Switcing to the ME version should not affect your other work, though there may be some other bugs not present in the US/European versions.

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Marv1eAuthor

Participant

Hi Peter,

Why is this feature available to business users and not to me, an individual user who pays an equivalent amount? This is harmful to me as a single-person business and should be rectified.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Anyone can install above its notrmal version install the English-Hebrew or English-Arabic or both versions.

Go to the CC Application.
Open its Prefereces
Left you see Applications
Sroll down until you see default installatiin language.
Select a language with RTL functionality.
Install all applications where you miss this feature again. After the change of the language most, but not all, applications have change to install.
After installing the other language change back to your prefered language
Now should your UI be in your prefered language but InDesign has additional funtionality from that language. These items might be in English if no terminolgy exists in your language. All other items are in the default language.

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