baruch.sienna Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I do a lot of desktop publishing with right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic) and when I try to type text in these languages, the letters display correctly but not in the proper right-to-left order. Will this be supported in the final release (fingers crossed) or a 1.1 release (please!) Also, such documents require page spreads to be reversed (i.e. page 2 is on the right, page 3 is on the left). Optimistically, I see a tab under typography with the option: Hebrew Script, but I don't see what that does. GrandChefPanda, figarojew and somnolentsurfer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdc Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I'll echo this request ... or at least a plugin to flip the text for such languages (and ideally flip the layout). I work in a number of different languages for a client and I imagine people who have these languages as their primary language will become customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFisher Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi baruch.sienna. RTL support is something that maybe added in a future update but will not be available in the release build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdc Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Great to hear that RTL support will be added in a future update! This will certainly increase Affinity's customer base (and allow me to use Publisher instead of InDesign!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baruch.sienna Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yes, at a minimum as a workaround, I'd need this. In the early days (yes, I'm that old) of Adobe's InDesign, a third party created such a plug-in, but I can say, the current built-in support feels more robust and stable. figarojew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baruch.sienna Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, JFisher said: Hi baruch.sienna. RTL support is something that maybe added in a future update but will not be available in the release build. As my work requires this functionality, I have to pass and wait for a future release. (see avatar pic) figarojew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdc Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Affinity folk, I know this beta literally just dropped today...but anyone know of 3rd parties working on a Right to Left plugin that may be a temporary fix till it's added in as a feature? Very excited to start playing around with Publisher - happy it's finally here. Please give us designers a reason to leave Adobe's awful bloatware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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