Font Arabic Photoshop
Florene Franca
I downloaded a number of Farsi fonts and they render individual characters fine but but don't join multiple characters together at all. Does anyone know how to get whole words to appear correctly? If someone knows how to do this in Arabic but not Farsi, that would help me get closer.
There was a plugin, years ago, called Parian that claimed to render Farsi text correctly. From what I can tell, it hasn't been updated in a very long time and there's not much chance it would work in any version later than Photoshop 7. I don't know of one that's current.
On the brighter side, there should be OpenType fonts able to form words correctly in Photoshop CS6 or later, with the expanded support for OpenType features. My own solution in a situation like this would be to shift over to InDesign, which has extensive support for position-sensitive alphabets, do the typography there, and copy/paste back into Photoshop. Illustrator may also support that feature, but InDesign is king of typesetting. In either case, you do have to start with an OpenType font that has the capability built in.
Photoshop provided support for right to left reading order text in previous versions with the "Middle Eastern", or "ME" Editions. That functionality is no longer native to Photoshop as of version CS5. The options are to purchase additional software, or trick Photoshop into formatting text properly by using a text box template made specifically to do it. In this tutorial, we use the following template: Go to: sites.google.com/site/arabicfarsiphotoshop/files Or: brainchamber.com/yourls search for ArabicFarsiPSD And download the template
Its a zip file. Extract it. And double click to open it in Photoshop. Photoshop ask you a question you can choose NO or Update. Use NO option. You dont wanna update. Now you can write from right to left in this template. Keep the orginal layer and duplicate template layer (Right click on layer and select douplicate layer option) and try to modify it as you desire. Save this template and everytime you need something new. you can open this file and duplicate the original layer and work on copy layer.
By the way you need to choose one of the Arabic font which is available as standard in photoshop to be able write in Persian. If you dont like standard Arabic fonts from Photoshop then search by google and install your favorite Persian font and install it. I personally prefer to go to behnevis.com and write my text in Latin and this site wil give you the Latin text in Persian. Copy the text from this site and paste it on your Photoshop right to left template. Enjoy!
I'm living and working in UAE - but my language has always been set as English UK in the settng panel preferences and never had an issue before. Now i have to set manually the text tool everytime i want to use it - super annoying!
In Adobe InDesign, we change application defaults by simply closing any open documents, change the font to Gill Sans, change paragraph directions, dictionary language, and any other formatting. From there on, any new document you create in InDesign will remember your new defaults that suit Latin language users, but this is only in InDesign.
Hi! I had the same problem. In a past CC version, I did download InDesign for Arabic fonts. I remember setting this up in my Creative-Cloud downloader. - This isn't the case anymore. Any software version can have its language and style-writing altered without having to download a new version for it.
I had the same problem it turned out to be keyboard preference language you can change it in the task bar, you will see ENG or AR open it it will open a small window then start typing in AI then when typing to hindi or arabic click small language window and select english and problem You will be solved
@danielfeary You may consider installing two versions of Illustrator, one can be the Middle Eastern version for Arabic jobs, and the other version can be of a different language such as English for your regular jobs.
In Illustrator however it is a longer issue, to my knowledge you need to change your file profile. For instance, if you use the "Print" profile, you will have to change all defaults in a new document, name this new document as Print.ai to replace the one that comes "out of the box" with Illustrator.
this solved my issue. AI is really weird: you ahve to change all default type settings in order to have Illustrator open documents in the right way. My defaults were for Arabic: any document written in 100% English were automatically converted into hindi figures and weird text for repalced fonts.
THanks @Zaid Al Hilali . In the end, that's what I did. Well, I don't have an arabic job currently so uninstalled my existing version of Illustrator and reinstalled an English version. Thanks for the help
im using the ME version of indesign, and have an english document that i would like to change to arabic when i go to insert an arabic text box and enter text, i get spaces appearing inbetween each character.
This thread was the closest thing I could find to what is happening to my Arabic typesetting. For the first time I have come across this weird type spacing issue.
Text was copied from a PDF file. Placed into an Arabic text box with all the parameters assigned yet still the letters are not connecting properly.
Any suggestions??
It is possible that copying text from a PDF corrupted the text and spacing! What happens when you copy from PDF and paste in a word processor application such as MS. Word (Windows), or Text Edit (Mac)?
I suspect the issue has arisen somewhere from copying the text from the PDF and then placing it into InDesign.
I had asked the client to resupply the text in a Word Document and it placed correctly.
Hello everyone
for anyone who has the same problem with farsi or arabic fonts or anyother fonts, first open your characters panel and then click on those three lines at the top right corner then choose "System Layout" instead of "Fractional Widths"
this should solve your problem
Cheers
So I'm editing a standard HTML page. The charset is set to "utf-8" in the head. The direction on the span selector is set to "rtl" using the CSS property direction (I've also tried the html dir attribute too). I've also tried a number of Arabic specific fonts too.
Let me explain:When more than 1 arabic letter forms a sentence, depending on the letter and it's position, they automatically join with the rest of the letters in the sentence. Hence, arabic sentences usually look joined together.
I want to use an arabic font & write Arabic text. I am using adobe photoshop Cs 3. I know that there used to be an option in CS 6 to enable and write arabic with ease. Is there any such option in cs 3 ?
ok i have my PC set up so that i can type arabic on it, when i type the arabic in word in comes out fine, i take taht same text and copy and paste it into after effects and the text comes out backwards (because arabic is right to left and english is left to right)
i tried copying it from word to phothop then exporting the pixels as a PNG but when i take that into after effects i still get white around the text, plus i dont want to export the text as a picture because i cant work with its charectors and animate it in after effects and its not anti aliad, what should i do, i mean ive seen it done before u guys have any clue?
And in fact, in that case (copying the text from Word, which I understand is the case of this thread), YES, I tried it; and YES, it works.
Good script, by the way, I will use it next time. Thanks for sharing.
This is a website that converts arabic font to fit after effects and photoshop simply copy the text you want to convert in arabic paste it there and click convert n copy to clipboard and it will flip the text to fit there n paste in after effects or photoshop and ur good to go -keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/
In the first post of this series, I summarised a brief history of typographic justification of Arabic. It provides the background for the observations that follow, discussing how text can be justified in current software environments. The observations in this discussion are always temporary, since software updates may change the situation over night. Having said that, developments in the support of Arabic typography are not as rapid as the pace of wider technological advances would suggest. Although much has changed since the introduction of computer typesetting, many aspects of Arabic typography have changed little in comparison to thirty years ago. Many of the underlying assumptions have remained in place, as demonstrated by the perseverance of the Tatweel character, or the semantic encoding of Arabic ligatures in The Unicode Standard.
The two central technologies of current mainstream typography, OpenType and Unicode, promised global typography at their inception. Both are now well into their twenties, having been published in 1996 and 1991 respectively.1 By way of a reminder, 1991 was the year of the Second Gulf War; the year when Tim Berners Lee announced the World Wide Web; the year the Soviet Union was dissolved; the year that the Yugoslavian civil war commenced; when Bill Clinton was yet to run for president; and when Michael Jordan won his first NBA championship.
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