YAR Oracool Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Hello. I recently got the rest of Affinity suite which means Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer. Than I realized that a very basic but niche feature is missing. Right-To-Left support. Well I can work around this by throwing my text at Krita export as a high res TIFF than throw it anything Affinity. This works fine for small bits of text but if you are working with something like an article, it's a very annoying issue. Shout outs to the absolute hero on https://rtlfixer.com for creating a fix for it sadly this isn't a viable option for me since this program is not available for purchase in anywhere usable for me. In some Adobe stuff you can change the text engine to support it. In Krita it just there by default. Sadly that is not an option on Affinity. I know RTL isn't as main stream but a good chunk of people still use it. Please consider adding it to the suite. If you want to recommend me some softwares to basically cheat my way threw this problem keep in mind that any paid thing that isn't on steam or Microsoft store is absolutly useless to me and anything on MAC is even more useless. Still this isn't about finding a solution, this is a request for a basic feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 24 minutes ago, YAR Oracool said: a very basic but niche feature is missing You can’t have it both ways! By definition a ‘niche’ feature is not a basic one. Old Bruce 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 4, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 4, 2021 33 minutes ago, Alfred said: You can’t have it both ways! By definition a ‘niche’ feature is not a basic one Whether this is true or not picking a user up on their precise use of English is poor form. I doubt you could argue as eloquently in Persian. Feel free to apologise or hide your post Alfred 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 4, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 4, 2021 @YAR Oracool We do wish we had the resources to add this feature to our current version. For those who need it it is critical, we understand. sorry that it has not yet been possible to address. It will take quite a while to do correctly (allowing for a proper mixture of L2R and R2L), sorry. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAR Oracool Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said: Whether this is true or not picking a new user up on their precise use of English is poor form. I doubt you could argue as eloquently in Iranian. Feel free to apologise or hide you post Offence is taken, not given. It's fine, also I'm pretty sure he was joking. Old Bruce, Patrick Connor and Alfred 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAR Oracool Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Patrick Connor said: @YAR Oracool We do wish we had the resources to add this feature to our current version. For those who need it it is critical, we understand. sorry that it has not yet been possible to address. It will take quite a while to do correctly (allowing for a proper mixture of L2R and R2L), sorry. I see. Well, I waited some time for my camera to be added and my use of Persian is pretty limited but hey! Glad it's in the pipline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, YAR Oracool said: Offence is taken, not give. It's fine, also I'm pretty sure he was joking. Thank you. I certainly didn’t mean to offend! YAR Oracool 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAR Oracool Posted March 4, 2021 Author Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Alfred said: Thank you. I certainly didn’t mean to offend! No worries man. We're just friends. A joke or 2 won't hurt. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, YAR Oracool said: No worries man. We're just friends. A joke or 2 won't hurt. I did hope the wink in my earlier post would be seen as an indication that my comment should be taken as a light-hearted one! I’m glad you took it that way. YAR Oracool 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAR Oracool Posted May 20, 2021 Author Share Posted May 20, 2021 On 4/21/2021 at 8:18 PM, LondonSquirrel said: You can use LibreOffice 7 Draw, and export the text as EPS. It is not ideal, kashidas don't work properly, but it is better than nothing. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the intel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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