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Hi, I apologize for bringing this subject again, but this has been a lingering issue. With approximately 400 million people who write from right-to-left in the world, the lack of RTL support is mostly excluding them from using Affinity's amazing products. (I mean, Publisher is completely useless for all RTL countries) What's funny, is that I found that you can write in RTL languages in Affinity Photo and get your text appear in reverse, but if you print it then it would print correctly. Huh?! It seems like RTL support is already half baked, so why not take the extra step and finish it up? Curious to hear everyone's opinion on that and perhaps some clues as for the timeline to integrating it into Affinity's products. (as from my perspective, this has grown to be a significant differentiator between Adobe's suite and Affinity's). Thanks, -- TR

Once again and again and again, please, pretty please, support rtl texts on affinity package, I use affinity publisher to setup Arabic books with long texts, and it takes sooooo long to prepare texts outside affinity then paste them back to the the publisher. Please help!

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Does anyone knows how do I type text from RTL for Arabic text for the 2 softwares mentioned?

Hi everyone, Just signed up for the forum after purchasing the Affinity V2 Universal License. I asked this question in a private message with Affinity support, and it was also asked in the Affinity V1 section in this forum but seems that no-one has asked this for V2. Hence, I'm raising this up here as well so this won't be forgotten: It would be great if Right-to-Left (RTL) text writing support will be added to the Affinity products for both desktop and iPad versions. I'm aware that this may be difficult to implement, yet this is an essential feature for RTL users. The competitor Adobe has RTL support but as you all know the mandatory subscription plan is why we're here, and so RTL users would love to see this important feature implement. Thanks! I would like I to take advantage of this opportunity to thank Affinity for developing such great products, making it much affordable (and reasonable) for those who still believe and prefer a one-time-purchase permanent license per version, which the competitor Adobe doesn't offer anymore. Also, I would like to thank the community here for their feedback to making the Affinity products even better. Personally, I would love to see Affinity products line grow to include even more products, such as video and audio editing, so eventually combine an entire production software in one suite, just like the Adobe Master Collection.

many messaged you before but no response> We need it ot support Arabic and other RTL languages.

Hi Affinity Team, Does Affinity V2 support RTL? RTL is in need.

we need RTL writing system on desktop and iPad ! we are waiting along time and still nothing for that , and no body lock seriously for that problem

I'm a photoshop user for 18 years now. affinity suite is the best competitor now. but not supporting RTL text is a major drawback. please fix this. thanks

hi there any updates about rtl typing direction? are you going to work on that any time soon? thx!

Does v2 support rtl? If not teher is any chance to get it in future updates??

i hope affinity team add RTL Support, Diagonal Ruler Guide, and Add Path Effect like inkscape feature

These are very basic to me. The v1 UI is horrible - everything is so tiny on a hi res screen. And you didn't manage to fix that? And so many people had been asking about rtl support? Also nothing? These things make the upgrade pretty useless for me, sorry.

Please fix the problem of writing in Arabic from right to left in the next update Without the intervention of external programs

Hi, The following bug still exists within Affinity Publisher 2.0. I am using Publisher 2.0.0 on a Windows 10 machine (Ver 21H1, intel i7-9750H with NVIDIA 1660 Ti).

Hello, will there be support for Right to left languages encoding for the affinity programs? thanks

Come on guys? I want to move completely to Affinity but looks like I will still need Adobe Illustrator a little while longer.