Tony W
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oui - ce serait génial d'avoir une langue de droite à gauche - pour l'arabe, etc.
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4 hours ago, Maryam Ismaeel said:
I need to use Affinity Publisher but in Arabic...
Its unfortunate Maryam Ismaeel that Affinity, so far, does not support any right to left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu etc) . I purchased Affinity 2 - the latest version - in the hope that right to left will be included in that, eventually.
Fingers crossed it will come Inshallah -
thanks @ivanvanbeek I will also give that a try
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KHALIDTV - agreed. There may be a coding issue to get the script to flow when using a mix of left to right & right to left. However a plugin or similar that has a charge would hopefully offset the cost of specialized coding.
Lets see - I'm always hopeful -
Je suis d'accord @abdouAllâh
Affinity est excellent et à un très bon prix.
Je ne suis pas aussi patient que tu dois l'être pour fixer chaque mot
alors espérons qu'une option de droite à gauche deviendra disponible
même à un coût - car il en coûtera pour développer le service qui ne sera utilisé que par un pourcentage des personnes qui l'utilisent - pas tout le monde. -
Hi @Barron - Right to Left has a vast pool of users. Adobe in their earlier versions of Photoshop had a plug-in for RTL (I cant remember if it was paid-to-download). Would a similar option be one you could use in Affinity? eg pay for that extra feature.
I dont have InDesign, but it is used by a publisher of my writing. Its not perfect with RTL - and does have occasional glitches where a few individual words of the cursive Arabic is displayed LTR (and each letter is unlinked). So from my point of view Affinity has a market for RTL and a competitor who offers it but hasn't mastered it. -
On 4/9/2022 at 12:43 PM, walt.farrell said:
This section of the forums is for us to speak to the team that plans the future enhancements. We are speaking directly to them, here.
As a newbie I really didnt know if this was a good place to reply to @HalHart to amplify their request re right-left text. Im delighted to know its the right place
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They may not be decision makers (I have no idea who these may be) - but perhaps they have an ability to provide direct feedback to the decision makers at Affinity
- who I guess are too busy to read through all the posts on the forum about the subject.
I added the paid app point as there is a cost to creating right to left which would only be of use to an unknown % of Affinity users and they (including me) could pay for it.
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On 4/3/2022 at 6:08 PM, HalHart said:
Well as a requests forum, I published my request. I would be happy if one of the developers will address the question
Affinity could create a right to left text option as an chargeable app in their store (if its technically possible - as Adobe did as a plug-in on the older Photoshop). The charge will hopefully defray cost & even make a profit.
In India, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, the Arab world etc large numbers of users or potential users, would make a target user pool. Perhaps @Sean P & the Affinity team will consider it. -
I appreciate that - there have been several forum posts about right to left language over the years.
My post was to make a language request to Affinity (without making a new post) with a link to a moderator such as @Callum(the forum is suggested for requests - by Affinity on their website ). As I am aware that I am not the first I hope that by letting them know there is another person who is interested, a picture of demand may build up.
I think Affinity is a good, low cost alternative to Adobe - so the cost of freely implementing the request may be prohibitive. The right-to left market is also generally low cost (except for Israel). So I think Affinity have a large pool of people who would right to left language - and pay for it.
Artwayz charge from US$30 for the right-to-left workaround and they explicitly promote for use with Affinity. So I would guess that Affinity - or an authorised supplier - could achieve that as a sale in the Affinity add-ons store if the Affinity team would agree.
Hope springs eternal - to quote Pope. -
Thanks @LondonSquirrel
Libre is good but still if transferred (copy & paste) to Affinity the result is still jumbled - see the attachment - the top is توني from Libre - but joined & almost got there - I tried the same from MS Word - and the bottom is inexplicable - but a script.
I also entered direct - the first is on the Oman 101 keyboard (Windows10) and the second is Oman 102 - slight difference which I had not seen when using MS Word.
I am tempted to buy Artwayz - but some comments are that it doesn't function. Photoshop - the old versions on a CD - did have a plugin that worked & I can imagine that a similar paid plugin would work with Affinity.🤞
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It will be good to have Arabic right-left language / bidirectional text support @Lee D. There are some workarounds detailed on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=affinity+arabic+ some have a cost like Artwayz). Having a plug-in or similar for Affinity would be ideal - even if its an Added Cost Item to be purchased from the Affinity add-ons store. There must be a large number of users using Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu - who would be interested.
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It will be good to have webp as an export option - Google like it on search and Wordpress, as you say MVCS, now offer it in their latest update.
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Thanks for the suggestion @Lee D - I will give it a go
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I have Affinity Photo - and am designing a book cover - this means its the Front Cover - Back Cover and Spine
I need to Align the Text to centre it within the Front Cover - but all I can do it to align it within the centre of the entire image = Front Cover - Back Cover and Spine.
Is there a box or similar that I can use to set the alignment boundary's - I have tried the Rectangular Marquee tool - but it dosnt do this.
thanks for any help - Tony
Arabic language Support
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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Omer it is unfortunate - But I like Affinity & I purchased version2 on its release - designer, photo, publisher so fingers crossed 🤞Affinity will introduce Right to Left ⬅️or engage/approve a company to create a plug-in at an extra charge 💰- it will be a fantastic addition especially for publisher