greedy013
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greedy013 reacted to YoramS in Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages
It's 20 lines of code (at least in Windows)
I saw an Israeli company has created and selling a software that does it on MAC
I think Serif is missing out on A LOT of potential customer by not even exploring this ... it is really NOT A BIG Deal to code
It's a low hanging fruit that is being missed here
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greedy013 reacted to thomaso in Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages
It is a relevant difference that this list shows UI languages only. It would not make much sense to list languages which can be used in the documents. Not only this list would be extremely long, also a language doesn't necessarily stick to a specific script (latin, cyrillic, syllabaries, logographies etc) or writing system (LTR, RTL). So, as supplement to the UI languages it may be useful to mention writing systems in the specs. Is this what you miss? I am not sure what's the point in your quote from the specs page. We knew already that no RTL is supported, didn't we? Or did you expect to find RTL in the list you quoted?
p.s.: v_kyr, mit "initial decision" meine ich die ursprüngliche Konzept-Entscheidung nur mit LTR zu starten and RTL später als Ergänzung zu entwickeln. Könnte ja sein, dass sie das inzwischen lieber anders entschieden hätten, aber sie können dieses Rad natürlich nicht zurückdrehen.
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greedy013 reacted to walt.farrell in Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages
Those look like the UI languages, though, not a claim about what languages (or scripts) can be used within documents.
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greedy013 reacted to Glicky in Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages
Hi dominik.
Here you can found the reason why they are unwilling to add support for RTL and Complex scripts in the near future. . When i asked Serif directly via email if they would add this support, that's what they answered me:
"We understand that there is a large number of users who require RTL support, but it is not something that can be created quickly. There are a lot of intangibles with the different RTL languages, that do not come in to play with Latin languages. Latin languages are very formulaic in there composition, where as right to left languages can vary from Arabic to Hebrew, or from Persian to Urdu. We don't just need to implement the ability to right from right to left, we also need to ensure that all of the technical aspects of these languages are working correctly.
We are a tiny company with limited resources. We will do what we can we with the resources that we have. We do not want to focus the coming years focusing on one feature, and if it is something that is feasible then it will be included in the future."
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So, it sounds that we'll have to wait a long time, until we will have support for complex scripts and rtl languages in affinity.
Bt"w, in my opinion it's worth to hire programmers only for this purpose. it's a 100 percent guarantee they will get back the money (With large percentages) very fast, taking in mind that they are opening the way for new hundreds of thousands of graphic designers (and maybe millions over the time) who can't work without this supports.
