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Separate letters in Arabic text in InDesign CS6
Thread poster: zeanut
zeanut
zeanut
Iceland
Dec 20, 2013

Hi Everyone

I'm working on technical manuals in InDesign. I've never worked with Arabic text before.
We got a document back from our translation agency and our distributor (who's Arabic) went through the text that were put in a final layout. He found a few mistakes, mainly where letters seem separated. I see the difference between what he sent in his email and what's in the document itself, but if I copy the tex... See more
Hi Everyone

I'm working on technical manuals in InDesign. I've never worked with Arabic text before.
We got a document back from our translation agency and our distributor (who's Arabic) went through the text that were put in a final layout. He found a few mistakes, mainly where letters seem separated. I see the difference between what he sent in his email and what's in the document itself, but if I copy the text from outlook to InDesign, it turns out to be the same as it was before: separated. I have World Tools (ME) add-in, and the text is set in Myriad Arabic. Do you know how to fix this?

Here are a picture about the problematic parts:

http://gigi.wigor.hu/SME/SMEww7.png

http://gigi.wigor.hu/SME/SME2dC.png

http://gigi.wigor.hu/SME/SMEfbe.png

And here's another one. In the English text another line's setting is like this:

http://gigi.wigor.hu/SME/SMEHnr.png

Regarding the distributor it's not right in Arabic:

http://gigi.wigor.hu/SME/SMEfKj.png

Is it right? Because for me it seems the arrangement of the text is the same.

Many many thanks for your help in advance.

Zeanut ▲ Collapse
 
Adil Nadri
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United Kingdom
Local time: 00:04
Arabic to English
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hi Dec 20, 2013

Dear Zeanut

I can see the letters attached when i open them . I dont know what exactly what you want to be fixed.

Adil
 
samehme
samehme
United States
Local time: 16:04
English to Arabic
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InDesign ME... Dec 22, 2013

Hello Zeanut,

If you are using the Middle Eastern version of InDesign, and the Arabic text is separated:

- Select the Text or select the Text frame,

- Go to the Type menu,

- Click on "Apply Adobe World Ready Composers!"

This will solve the issue of separated Arabic text.

Though, of course, you must have an Arabic font used for the text.

Good luck,

Sameh
 
zeanut
zeanut
Iceland
TOPIC STARTER
Thanks! Jan 24, 2014

Thanks for the help from both of you!

Apparently it seems that it goes wrong when I export a PDF from InDesign and I made those screenshots in InDesign. I'm still looking for a solution.

Thanks again! Arabic is a tricky language, I got really interested in it while I'd been working with it.

Zita

[Edited at 2014-01-24 15:08 GMT]
 
asimkhandubai
asimkhandubai
India
when i type arabic so some text showing rectable Dec 14, 2017

Please help me how to use all arabic font in adobe indesign
 


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