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RTL Option Missing in InDesign

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 6, 2024
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I work with Adobe InDesign and other Adobe software, and I pay for the Adobe subscription. Why is the option that used to be there now missing?!!!! Where did the RTL (Right to Left) option go? Are you only accurate and precise when it comes to charging us at the end of the subscription period? You send thousands of notifications and emails asking us to renew our subscription, but you don't see the other messages and requests? There is no detailed information or assessment on this issue—why? You just keep saying, "It’s fixed, it’s being fixed..." I need this option: RIGHT TO LEFT.

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Olivier Beltrami

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@ARTICREATOR see the instructions at https://www.qppstudio.net/webhelp_xv4/mena-version-of-indesign.htm to install the MENA version of InDesign (MENA= Middle East and North African Languages).

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

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

jane-e

Community Expert

You send thousands of notifications and emails asking us to renew our subscription, but you don't see the other messages and requests?
By @ARTICREATOR

The volunteers on the user-to-user forum haven't sent you any notifications. If you want to make a feature request or post a bug report, the product developers will see and track it in another site called User Voice:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

This is not a bug, though, as right-to-left has not been removed and Franz has already told you what you need to do.

For more details, see this page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html

Jane

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

This is not a bug, though, as right-to-left has not been removed and Franz has already told you what you need to do.

I beg to differ. I'm pretty confident that it's not a bug in InDesign, though. I imagine it's bug in the Creative Cloud app, or in whatever part of the InDesign updater looks for the language setting in the CC app.

I always have my language in the Creative Cloud app set to "English (Arabic)" for access to RTL tools. But InDesign updates to US English interface around 40% of the time. The other ~60% of the time, it successfully updates to "English (Arabic)".

I see these posts here on a regular basis; the "Where did my Hebrew/Arabic tools disappear to?" post. I'd be willing to wager that, if ARTICREATOR responds to any of these messages, it'll turn out that just changing the language and updating the app fixes the issue. A brief look at ARTICREATOR's post history shows that they've clearly used RTL tools in InDesign in the past. So it's not a simple case of an angry user not knowing how to install the tools correctly; it's a bug.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

A good answer, but it also seems the OP has been stewing about it for a year without asking any right source the right question... but could find this forum to rant in.

There are lots of little "secret unknowns" in the Adobe Suite. Good thing there's a body of informed users to ask about them. 🙂

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Asking the question, here in a user-to-user forum, might have been more polite than ranting about a non-problem that seems to stem from your own mistake. Just sayin'.

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

If you need the option 'right to left' than download the correct version that supports this. Clearly you installed the wrong version for you.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/right-to-left-toggle-in-paragraph-panel-has-disappeared-from-indesign-2022/td-p/12906304

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