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etrnlflame
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January 22, 2019
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Arabic text - regular numbers moving in the paragraph!

  • January 22, 2019
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This is a fairly urgent project for work, so hopefully someone has my answer!

When I copy this paragraph from MS Word:

It pastes like this in Indesign:

As you can hopefully notice, the numbers are all messed up! I can't read Arabic and am having a nightmare time trying to fix it. It's straight from a translator, so I need the Indesign text to look exactly like the Word text.

I've turned on Paragraph > World ready paragraph composer

I've also tried Character > Language > Arabic

Help please!

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    Correct answer etrnlflame

    I found this video helpful, I think it's fixed my problem:

    Indesign Numbering Paragraphs… on their right side! - YouTube

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    etrnlflameAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 22, 2019

    I found this video helpful, I think it's fixed my problem:

    Indesign Numbering Paragraphs… on their right side! - YouTube

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 25, 2019

    I'm sorry, but the solution provided in the video may have helped the person in the video but the suggestion made cannot be considered as real solution to the problem.

    The video suggests to use "Fill with placeholder text" to fix a right-to-left numeral issue. While it may have fixed the problem however File with place holder text is usually used to fill up text frame with temporary gibberish text that doesn't make sense.

    Back to your question. I believe changing paragraph direction, Adobe World Ready composers, and Character Directions and the like are proper way to solve such issues.

    Here is a topic in Arabic about how to handle Arabic typography in InDesign

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    etrnlflameAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2019

    Unfortunately none of those solutions worked. Maybe it's an Adobe bug, but

    I was having a very hard time trying all of those solutions and none of

    them working.

    On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:16 AM Zaid Al Hilali <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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