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.
Cara Menulis Text Arab Di Photoshop Dan Di Berbagai Program طريقة كتابة بالعربية Assalamu'alaikum Sangat mudah untuk menulis text arabi di photoshop dan di berbagai program lain. Langsunng saja untuk menulis text arab di photosop cs 4,5 dan 6.
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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. 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. ). 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!