Download Font Adobe Arabic

[Edward]

Ijust started using indesign, and whenever I type the font defaults to adobe arabic, and the dictonary defaults to arabic. I don't speak arabic, and i never specified a download of an arabic version. In addition, whenever i paste in text, the period shows up on the left side, and everything deletes from the left side. Does anybody know how to stop defaulting to arabic, and typing from right to left?

If you are using InDesigh CC (one of the Creative Cloud versions), open the the Creative Cloud desktop app (in the menu bar (Mac) or task bar (Windows). Choose Preferences from the menu at the upper right:

Steve is right. This generally happens when you have an Arabic version installed on your system. Please change the language from the Creative Cloud app and install the English version. If you need Arabic version for your work but still need a different font as your default font, simply save and close all the open documents and go to Type > Character and change the font (See video: Adobe Creative Cloud ).

If you are not going to use Arabic at all, you don't need to keep the Middle Eastern version, and you better uninstall InDesign, go to change the Language to International English in the Adobe Creative Cloud application, then download a fresh copy of InDesign which will be an English version only this time.

Change the fonts or other settings when no document is open, so any new document will start with these settings. Redefine the default styles, don't forget object styles, draw a text frame with 2 colums, open story panel, click on the correct column direction and redifene the object style.

If you're trying to add arabic font to a designer form then there shouldn't be any issue if the documentation[0] is followed. Font should be available (under windows font directory) to the Designer client. What is the error msg that you're getting?

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

Well this is an annoying problem. I'm working with a bunch of Arabic text copied from a Word doc and pasted into InDesign CC. And while the text is flowing in the right direction, the periods insist on winding up on the right margin at the end of the text instead of after the last character in the sentence, at the end of the line to the left.

In Googling for solutions, I see instructions to Select the paragraph direction from the Paragraph panel (not an option in my Paragraph panel), choose Character Direction from the Character panel (also not an option), From the Story panel (Window > Type & Tables > Story), click a story direction (not available). I've also tried adding spacing and hard returns before and after the period character, changing that character to another font and re-placing it, switching to single line vs. paragraph world-ready... nothing is working.

Here's is a trick mentioned by another contributor a few days ago. Create a text frame and then Ctrl +Type/Fill with Placeholder Text. This will let you choose what to fill with. Choose Arabic. Create a new paragraph style and use it where needed.

Thanks Ellis! I don't know why that worked, but it did -- of course it means re-setting all of the boxes and fonts in my (originally English) document but at this point I'll take that over fighting with the existing boxes for the rest of the day.

You were most likely pasting from a Word document with right-to-left character flow into an InDesign document with paragraph with left-to-right paragraph direction. You mentioned setting your paragraphs to right justify, but RTL paragraph behavior and right-aligned text are two different things. Turning on the WRC and setting language to Arabic will get you most, not all, of the settings you need for correct display. That's why the Middle East edition (the English-Arabic version that Ellis mentions) exists - all of those settings that you see in the Help pages are in that version only.

Am on mac CC2017 and tried this in Indesign by holding down Command and type >> file with placeholder text. I also tried with holding down CTRL and type >> file with placeholder text. Pasting still puts the period in the wrong position.

Our IT dept is having trouble installing in the arabic version even though we set the cloud prefs to English Arabic. Going to ask them to uninstall CC2017 and then install as there is a good cache that can get the Arabic Illustrator on my computer. Most of my work is in English so going to ask them to keep CC2015 and flip that setting that Adobe likes to move around and hide for keeping previous apps on computer.

If the document you're working with was created in a Middle Eastern version of InDesign, then you better have a Middle Eastern version on your machine too so you can continue to work on this document without facing these weird typographical behaviour.

However, another problem emerge. I cannot open .EPS file format with AI ME 2018. When I install AI ME 2018, I removed the old version (English 2017). Can I install the 2018 English edition together with ME edition?

Thanks alottttttttttttt Zaid, now I am working with two versions of illustrator, one for arabic one for english, seemed too much at first but it really answered my problem and smoothened my workflow. bless you for sharing.

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