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Arabic text doesn't show properly in Adobe Illustrator. Even with a font that supports Arabic text (e.g.
Arial), the text is back to front (left to right, not right to left) and the letters don't join up properly. To an Arabic speaker, it's gibberish. I know that there is an Illustrator version for the Middle East but. Really, no chance am I buying that just to get a few words into a vector graphic. I've also seen refs for (Winsoft) however it's 100 Euros and I work on CS6 now which isn't supported anyway.
I can't believe that after 16 major versions of Adobe Illustrator there is no way to copy & paste a bit of Arabic into it somehow? Can anyone think of an alternative? Free one if poss, it's a tiny job with 9 words in total. Thanks very much. Which font are you using? I also couldn't believe they didn't support this, I tried it on Illustrator CS4 (UK version) and I had no problem pasting in some arabic text, so long as the font supported it.
Myriad Pro and most other fonts that only have Roman characters: just boxes. Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, Verdana, Times etc (basically the web safe set): real Arabic text with no problems.
If these fonts still don't work for you, maybe (hopefully not.) it's some mad limitation in the US version. – Jun 28 '12 at 11:05. @user568458 Ahah! Yes, no problem if you don't read Arabic which I don't.
And it seemed to 'look' arabic, and was in an arabic font however, no-go with the client because in Arabic letters are not just letters, they are sometimes joined for phonetic reasons (sort of like ligatures) but Illustrator doesn't seem to support this unless you have the 'ME' middle east edition. The solution for me (if you can call it that) in the end was to do it in TextEdit with the font then blow it up to 200pt size, screenshot it and trace it in Illustrator, then I could at least mess with it. Bummer – Jun 28 '12 at 14:57.
Edit 2: There are better answers than mine - look at Andaleeb / Kurio's answers and the comments. Edit: Thanks to there's what looks like a simpler solution that also works in Illustrator for point text (it screws up if you have area text that spans more than one line, so you need to use point text then manually put line breaks in and re-order the lines of text, else the first line is at the bottom and the last is at the top). Type or copy your text into the top box on, then copy and paste the output text in the bottom box into Illustrator, and it seems to keep the joins correctly applied and the text appears the correct way round. If it just pastes boxes, make sure a font that supports Arabic characters is selected, e.g. One of the web safe standard fonts - Verdana, Times, Georgia, Arial. Note that illustrator still treats it like it's left-to-right text, so while it looks correct, editing it will feel strange if you normally type in Arabic.
So, if you need to edit the Arabic text, I'd recommend doing the edits in a separate word processor, then copy into the above site, then copy into Illustrator. You'll also need to set it to right-align. Basically, it seems to forcibly replace the characters with their appropriate joined ligatures. The software doesn't treat it as Arabic text, but the characters you are pasting are the correct joined forms of the characters.
Original answer: Here's a side-by-side comparison of the Arabic word for Arabic ( العربية), copied and pasted into a variety of applications with default settings, with suggested best approach at the end. Here's the original from Wikipedia as a screenshot image for comparison: Illustrator (UK editions, CS4, CS5 and CS6): Doesn't look right. Arabic joins not being applied (plus it looks like it hasn't figured out that this should be right-to-left text). Indesign (UK editions, CS4, CS5 and CS6): Also doesn't look right, same problems way as Illustrator. It's possible there's some setting somewhere that needs to be applied, but given that Scribdoor charged €100 to bring this feature to InDesign, I doubt it. (free open source Illustrator rival): Perfectly presented real inline text the moment it is pasted in. No problems at all.
For fun, since TextEdit on Mac apparently has no trouble, let's try smelly old Windows Notepad: Oh dear, Adobe, oh dear. It might lack style and finesse but it looks like Notepad has applied those joins perfectly. So it seems like the best, most reliable low/no cost solution to Alex's problem is to have a copy of Inkscape handy.
When an issue like this comes up, write and style the text in Inkscape as you would do in Illustrator (Inkscape's interface seems weird when used to illustrator, but comparable features are there), then copy and paste the Inkscape text object directly into Illustrator when it is ready. For me (on Windows) copying and pasting translates it into vector paths maintaining the correct lettering. Here's how it looks pasted in to Illustrator and selected (next to Illustrator's earlier attempt for comparison): If keeping a copy of Inkscape installed just for occasional things like this sounds like a pain, those open source guys have thought of that: there's a portable version which you can run off a pen drive. I've never used it so I won't recommend a place to download it that I haven't tried, but it seems to exist and work. There is an indirect yet way easier solution to this, it works on PC, I don't know if it works on a MAC but it is easy to test:. Find a PSD file containing correctly displayed arabic text that is still possible to edit and which was produced preferably using a Photoshop Middle East version, or alternatively:.
use this 'Template to edit and create arabic text' PSD (CS4) from Adobe, ( tried it in both Illustrator & Photoshop CS6, it works! You can copy paste the text to another file and continue editing it and changing fonts etc. ). Just extract the.PSD from the compressed file then load it into your Adobe Illustrator.
You can now edit the arabic text and shift the font etc. You can even copy/paste it flawlessly, as long as your Illustrator was able to load the original PSD file (try also other types of files, like EPS files generated with a Illustrator ME version maybe? I didn't try that). Just look for free PSD files containing arabic text (generated with a ME version) on the web and use them. Or use the one I included in step 2 if it's still available. Hope it will work for you!
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