Taqi Vaheed Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Me too. There are many popular RTL languages in the world like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coral Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Why Affinity still does not offer RTL support (for Hebrew, Persian, Arabic etc.) even after many years. However, if this prepares RTL support, it's sure to make a lot of money. Because I'm sure there are thousands of designers who need RTL typography. The question is: Is Affinity incredibly rich, doesn't it need money Or is RTL support not an important part of these professional (!) programs? A place where the mind stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, coral said: Why Affinity still does not offer RTL support (for Hebrew, Persian, Arabic etc.) even after many years. However, if this prepares RTL support, it's sure to make a lot of money. Because I'm sure there are thousands of designers who need RTL typography. The question is: Is Affinity incredibly rich, doesn't it need money Or is RTL support not an important part of these professional (!) programs? A place where the mind stops. First page of this topic... The delay has nothing to do with "importance" nor unwanted revenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Just now, MikeW said: First page of this topic... The delay has nothing to do with "importance" nor unwanted revenue. I was just looking up the very same post just to see you beat me to the minute 🙂 Nothing more to add. d. MikeW 1 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amirqa Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 I just want to confirm, Arabic will never be supported? or there's a road map but it will take long? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 28 minutes ago, Amirqa said: I just want to confirm, Arabic will never be supported? or there's a road map but it will take long? The answer is in the post just above yours. It is a big job, and will take a long time. They are working on other things first. Serif probably will not say anything more than that at this time. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua A.C. Newman Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 This is a colossal f***up on their part. The assumption that typsetters will never need to set a type in a direction other than L-R is bizarre. It means that, as soon as someone wants to make a Hagaddah or wants to quote Rumi in a book, they have to abandon the entire program back to InDesign. It means that, if you ever MIGHT use a r-l or top-bottom language, it's a mistake to use Affinity Publisher because of Adobe's toxic business model: if you stop paying them, you'll never again be able to make a text that includes even one word in r-l. garrettm30 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 After the rude aggression in the last post above (which for some reason avoids to point out what "this" or who "their" is supposed to be) and after a recent post in the other long thread, which stated that RTL would be "easy to implement", I am wondering meanwhile: What prevents a software company in the RTL world from developing software for the complaining people but let them repeatedly demand to get it developed in the LTR world? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaraJoon Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 It's about clients! Most of my client needs they campaign in different languages, including RTL. In 2016 I decided to stop my Adobe subscription and migrated to Affinity! And believe me, it was hard at that time! But now, after four years, I still have to buy Adobe each time I have clients with a multi-language project! I appreciate their work, and I'm still supporting them, but it's not fair to us! They said this is a hard task, the same as a lot of other things, but they need to start! So why not put some effort here for text directions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyu Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 3 hours ago, ZaraJoon said: It's about clients! Most of my client needs they campaign in different languages, including RTL. In 2016 I decided to stop my Adobe subscription and migrated to Affinity! And believe me, it was hard at that time! But now, after four years, I still have to buy Adobe each time I have clients with a multi-language project! I appreciate their work, and I'm still supporting them, but it's not fair to us! They said this is a hard task, the same as a lot of other things, but they need to start! So why not put some effort here for text directions! 😞😞😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 9 hours ago, thomaso said: What prevents a software company in the RTL world from developing software for the complaining people but let them repeatedly demand to get it developed in the LTR world? Unless we seal all borders and stop exchanging goods and ideas between different countries, there will always be odd people dealing with languages different from the one of their native village. Hence the need for tools with which one can communicate in several different languages (and directions). Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 On 4/8/2020 at 6:35 PM, thomaso said: After the rude aggression in the last post above (which for some reason avoids to point out what "this" or who "their" is supposed to be) and after a recent post in the other long thread, which stated that RTL would be "easy to implement", I am wondering meanwhile: What prevents a software company in the RTL world from developing software for the complaining people but let them repeatedly demand to get it developed in the LTR world? I don't know what was the point of your post... to trigger people more? But I would leave you with this link: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penn Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 On 4/8/2020 at 4:05 PM, thomaso said: What prevents a software company in the RTL world from developing software for the complaining people but let them repeatedly demand to get it developed in the LTR world? As a "RTL world" customer, I chose Affinity over a myriad of available free/commercial tools and I never regret that because I like their products and the people behind them, I must say that requesting a feature from the developers of the product is something very normal to the individuals who think that people live in the same world. PaoloT and tyu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartburn Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 years later. I installed a trial version of Affinity publisher, only to find out it's impossible to place Hebrew text because it gets completely mixed up. So I'd better not buy it, because I will be publishing partly in the Hebrew language? Or has there been any prograss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 29, 2020 Staff Share Posted April 29, 2020 Hi Heartburn, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's still no support for RTL languages, sorry. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyu Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 4/29/2020 at 7:19 AM, MEB said: Hi Heartburn, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's still no support for RTL languages, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohammed! Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 On 4/29/2020 at 1:19 PM, MEB said: Hi Heartburn, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's still no support for RTL languages, sorry. Quote On Almazeyd.Com website [موقع المزيد], you can find high-quality content in the Arabic language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amirgelman Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Did anyone find a workaround? All these comments are about "why oh why you don't support RTL" but one must realise it's not their priority and that's a done deal. Don't convince yourself it might happen soon cause it will not. So Let's talk about a fix for this thing? Any third party software for Mac to enable writing backwards? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 11 minutes ago, amirgelman said: Did anyone find a workaround? This was found and posted a few times meanwhile... https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/ Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Well a very imperfect work around is to create text frames and then flip them. Typing will then be Right-to-Left. However the characters will also be reversed. If you had a font with flipped glyphs then that might help. Strictly speaking rotating the text frame 90 degrees in either direction will give top to bottom and bottom to top rendering as well. Although you'd need fonts to work successfully with such an arrangement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Martin Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 I use pixelmator text frames on mac and command+c, command+v it on affinity and voila. Texts wont be vector though. So ull need a big pixelmator file. Im not sure if i can do the same thing between pages+affinity. Im aware its a lousy way of doing it but gets the job done. For ipad, i dont have any convenient workarounds. I use pages to write, than export to pdf, than open in affinity, and even that it still gives some issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 you can always try writing in inkscape then convert to path and bring it to affinity. it's a vector so you can do much more with it. Aaron Martin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amirgelman Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Hello everybody! I’m happy to announce the release of our Right-to-Left writing solution for Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. The app could help fix RTL writing in other software which has a similar issue as Affinity’s apps do. Get RTL Fixer now while it’s on sale: https://www.artwayz.com/en/buy-rtl-fixer Watch our app in action: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Go Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Hey all. Just adding my voice to the growing crowd of Affinity loyalists who could really use native, built in RTL (right to left) language support. Cheers! weby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo7ammed Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Isn't the time yet for affinity after gaining several awards for thier good apps to make suitable for multilingual use? 😊 Only they know, I just wanted to add my voice to this topic. Thank you. Haluna 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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