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How to access Arabic and Hebrew features in Photoshop
How to access Arabic and Hebrew features in Photoshop
This video shows users how to access the Middle Eastern type engine, allowing them to use the features that support Arabic and Hebrew...
To reveal Middle Eastern type options in the Photoshop interface, do the following:
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Type (Mac OS).
- In the Choose Text Engine Options section, select Middle Eastern and South Asian.
- Click OK, and restart Photoshop.
- Choose Type > Language Options > Middle Eastern Features.
To create content in Arabic and Hebrew, you can make the right-to-left (RTL) direction the default text direction. However, for documents that include left-to-right (LTR) text, you can now seamlessly switch between the two directions.
- From the fly-out menu in the Paragraph panel, choose Middle Eastern And South Asian Layout.
- Select Right-To-Left or Left-To-Right paragraph direction from the Paragraph panel.
When you are working in Arabic or Hebrew, you can select the type of digits you want to use. You can choose between Arabic, Hindi, and Farsi.
By default, in Arabic versions of Photoshop, Hindi digits are auto-selected; in Hebrew versions, Arabic digits are selected. However, you can manually change digit types if necessary:
- Select the digits in the text.
- In the Character panel, use the Digits menu to select the appropriate font.
In Arabic, text is justified by adding Kashidas. Kashidas are added to Arabic characters to lengthen them. Whitespace is not modified. Use automatic Kashida insertion to justify paragraphs of Arabic text.
Select the paragraph, and at the lower-right of the Paragraph panel, choose an option from the Insert Kashidas pop-up menu: None, Short, Medium, Long, or Stylistic.
Note: Kashidas are inserted only in paragraphs with fully justified margins.
To apply Kashidas to a group of characters, select the characters in the document, and then choose Type > Language Options > Kashidas.
With some OpenType fonts, you can automatically apply ligatures to character pairs in Arabic and Hebrew. Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter pairs.
- Select text.
- In the Character panel, above the language and anti-aliasing menus, click the Standard or Discretionary Ligatures icon.
Discretionary ligatures provide more ornate options that some fonts support.
A font can provide alternative shapes for certain letters, typically for stylistic or calligraphy purposes. In rare cases, justification alternates are used to justify and align paragraphs containing these shapes.
Justification alternates can be turned on at a character level, but only if a font supports this feature. At the bottom of the Character panel, select Justification Alternates.
These Arabic fonts contain justification alternates: Adobe Arabic, Myriad Arabic, and Adobe Naskh.
These Hebrew fonts contain justification alternates: Adobe Hebrew and Myriad Hebrew.
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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 Scribdoor (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
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Edit 2: There are better answers than mine - look at Andaleeb / Kurio's answers and the comments.
Edit: Thanks to Supamike in this question about this problem in Photoshop 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 http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/, 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.
Inkscape (free open source Illustrator rival):
Perfectly presented real inline text the moment it is pasted in. No problems at all. Ouch.
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, lettering options like tracking, kerning, line height etc seem to be controlled through keyboard shortcuts, 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.
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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) fromAdobe, ( tried it in both Illustrator & Photoshop CS6, it works! Youcan copy paste the text to another file and continue editing it andchanging fonts etc. )http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4107
- Just extract the *.PSD from the compressed file then load it into your Adobe Illustrator.
TaDa! 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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Thanks for the tips! The PC trick sort of helped me. I opened up an old (ME version) InDesign file with editable Arabic text in it on my Mac's non-ME version InDesign CS6, and copied the Arabic text I needed from TextEdit/email straight into the Arabic text box in the ME InDesign Arabic file, and it showed perfectly right and editable as well. Thankfully I had Arabic fonts installed already so the text didn't appear funny or broken.
I then converted into outlines and took it into Illustrator.
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How about this.
- Type your Arabic text in MS Word 2010 in Arabic using font Arial.
- Save the file as pdf.
- Open the file in Adobe Illustartor CS5.
- When opening the file, it will say that a font subsitution is going to occur. Let it.
- When the pdf file is opened in Above Illustrator CS5, all you will see are black boxes.
- Select all the boxes.
- Go to fonts and select Arial.
And whola you have it.
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You may have a look at this plug in ScribeDOOR :ScribeDOOR allows you to edit and work in one or several of the following languages at the same time: Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer/Cambodian, Lao, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese.
It's available here : http://store.winsoft-international.com/products/product/winsoft/scribedoor.html
anneanne
In in my case I type arabic with Corel Draw, convert it to curve, then copy and paste to illustrator. It works for me
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I just pasted the text into fontbook using the font 'Baghdad' then took a screenshot and used image trace to get the curves of the Arabic word I needed. Worked like a charm! Word would not copy correctly for me. I am using CS6.
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I used Arabic Genie, which is an app that solves this problem and it worked fine for me. The free version only exports one word at a time but its still very useful. You can find it in the app store:
Sadly, there's no version for windows as far as I know...
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I use Corel draw to write the arabic text, then export (as curves) to .eps format.
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