Support the Arabic language ASAP

[ahmadelhussyin]

The popularity of Affinity programs is increasing among Arabic-speaking users

They want to transition to using these programs instead of Adobe's and take advantage of the 6-month trial offer

However, we are unable to use Affinity programs as they still do not support right-to-left Arabic writing

Therefore, we hope this support is provided as soon as possible.

 

[wonderings]

9 hours ago, ahmadelhussyin said:

The popularity of Affinity programs is increasing among Arabic-speaking users

They want to transition to using these programs instead of Adobe's and take advantage of the 6-month trial offer

However, we are unable to use Affinity programs as they still do not support right-to-left Arabic writing

Therefore, we hope this support is provided as soon as possible.

 

Out of curiosity, how is the popularity of Affinity increasing if no one is using it because it does not support RTL?

[ahmadelhussyin]

15 hours ago, wonderings said:

Out of curiosity, how is the popularity of Affinity increasing if no one is using it because it does not support RTL?

The popularity of a program is not solely tied to the number of current users!

There is a growing number of people interested in Affinity programs who cannot use them for various reasons.

For Arabic-speaking users, the main reason is the lack of Arabic language support.

[ahmadelhussyin]

46 minutes ago, অরুণ সরকার said:

As an Indic Language Serif user (may be from 2004) I can understand your issues with language support with Affinity. But posting with RTL & LTR language support in this forum is useless because most of the time you get some useless answer and some Haha React.

You can ask it here "We'd love to hear your thoughts!". If that makes any changes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYAqEQHx-KRV_v9D5y9o26zdoboZFZn-bmEiW-VeS22ldm-w/viewform

 

Regards

Thank you for your support, I have filled out the form as you suggested.

[brhoom]

On 7/15/2024 at 6:48 AM, wonderings said:

Out of curiosity, how is the popularity of Affinity increasing if no one is using it because it does not support RTL?

Actually lots of Arabic projects require or will be in English only, since countries like the Gulf region have more English speaker than Arabic, but Arabic still required by law, thus rendering the software actually pretty useful to some point, except when it comes to Arabic design will be more de-constructive and we can't just adjust the typo since we export as SVG etc....

 

[PaoloT]

1 hour ago, brhoom said:

Actually lots of Arabic projects require or will be in English only, since countries like the Gulf region have more English speaker than Arabic, but Arabic still required by law

This perspective can be reversed for non-Arabic countries: the software is good until you have to export a product to an RTL-writing country. It may be a manual, a catalogue, a brochure, a menu or a narrative book – the LTR original can't be translated into an RTL language.

At this point, you have to export the original from Publisher… Ah, Ok, forget it…

Paolo