InDesign CC 2017 Arabic features gone after update (12.1.0)

[Mo_Nasreddin]

My InDesign updated yesterday and now all the ME features have disappeared. How can I get them back?

- Yes I have set my CC app preference to English-Arabic.

- Yes I have set the InDesign paragraph preference to World-Ready.

[Zaid Al Hilali]

Marhaba Mo. If you're able to see "World-Ready" paragraph settings then you have the ME options. What exactly do you miss in the application?

[Mo_Nasreddin]

Ahlan Zaid. I am missing all of the menu options for ME formating. No text direction, no kashida options, no style options for Arabic in the character or paragraph tabs, no options for positioning diacritics, etc.

I can still type in Arabic, but that's it.

[Zaid Al Hilali · Accepted solution]

I see, now I wouldn't know the reason such features went missing on you, I updated my InDesign without an issue it shows 12.1.0.56 (Macintosh)

My only suggestion for you is to to go to the Creative Cloud menu or from your InDesign application folder, choose to uninstall InDesign, then download a fresh one after making sure you have chosen "English يدعم العربية" from the Creative Cloud menu.

[Design_59]

Absolute joke! Businesses pay a lot for working ME software, yet this problem still exists and businesses have to do google searches to find fixes to a stupid issue that shouldn't exist in the first place?! Sort it out Adobe, people will always purchase various different language versions of different software, your update module needs to be able to identify that an update each app appropriately!!! Or ask  the user at very least! Very disappointed. This and the joke that is the new Acrobat! Serif Affinity really is starting to look more and more attractive!

[erant93083989]

hi

i'm with the exact same problem (with hebrew replacing the arabic) on a mac - version 12.1.0.56

i'm 100% sure that the "english - hebrew" is checked in the cc preferences.

still features like character direction and paragraph direction just dont show up!

please can someone help with this???

[shumat208]

hi dear

you need to go to create cloud app and press

Press the corner at the login icon

after that click choose  preferences

now Select English يدعم اللغة العربية

and install the Indesign 2017 again (its not take more time because its install the component for  Arabic and RTL language.

[chantalsos]

Thank you for your help! I had the same problem!