Alfred Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 8 hours ago, ashf said: I think I came up with temporary solution. Someone on Twitter achieved vertical text by creating custom font. This can be applicable to rtl languages.(in similar way) First, you create horizontally filliped font using a font creator software. Then use that font on a text frame then flip the text frame horizontally. Voila! This will only work for RTL languages such as Hebrew, where the letter shapes don’t change. It won’t work for Arabic, because the letter shapes depend on the neighbouring letters. Glicky 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
capturleat Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 On 6/29/2019 at 8:38 PM, Glicky said: Bt"w, in my opinion it's worth to hire programmers only for this purpose. it's a 100 percent guarantee they will get back the money (With large percentages) very fast, taking in mind that they are opening the way for new hundreds of thousands of graphic designers (and maybe millions over the time) who can't work without this supports. I agree with your point here @Glicky, 100%. There is no good end to ignoring such numbers of people (or such potential profit, if looking at it from a purely business angle). I guess we must live in hope for now, with pro-active stances taken such as this: On 6/30/2019 at 10:01 AM, ashf said: Agree, actually I'm planning to find an engineer who is specialist in Asian language processing to introduce to Serif. and this: On 7/16/2019 at 9:48 PM, ashf said: Soon someone from our group is going to visit Serif headquarter to interview with them to promote Affinity in Japan. And we'll discuss with them directly about the development plan. Wishing you luck, @ashf. Would love to hear how this goes. Glicky and loyukfai 2 Quote
ashf Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 8 hours ago, Alfred said: This will only work for RTL languages such as Hebrew, where the letter shapes don’t change. It won’t work for Arabic, because the letter shapes depend on the neighbouring letters. I see, I don't know Arabic at all. But I'm just helping RTL language people to solve the inconvenience somehow since I too have similar inconvenience.This is just a trick as temporary solution. Honestly Serif should solve this problem at once ASAP. loyukfai and Glicky 2 Quote
thomaso Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 On 6/30/2019 at 11:01 AM, ashf said: Agree, actually I'm planning to find an engineer who is specialist in Asian language processing to introduce to Serif. An interesting article about the recent growth of Affinity in Japan can be found on this German website: https://affinitytutorials.de/affinity-big-in-japan/ , ... mentioning large Japanese interest in this article of a Tokyo Design School about Affinity apps: https://stocker.jp/diary/affinity-prototype/ A little less informative but expressing enthusiasm is this interview with a Japanese web designer and user of AfDesigner since 2014: Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
ashf Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 @thomaso Affinity User Group Japan held their first workshop with 30 seats and it's gone to 186 registrations.https://stocker-jp.connpass.com/event/136755/ They will hold 2nd workshop with 100 seats in Sept. Also 30-40% of entire Affinity related tweets on Twitter are Japanese.https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23AffinityDesigner OR %23AffinityPhoto OR (Affinity Designer) OR (Affinity Photo) OR %23AffinityPublisher OR (Affinity Publisher) OR %23Affinity&src=typd&fbclid=IwAR0LuXEwMo8JM7saManFTngoL3tEFFfVyztgq34Pr8T_dGCl1ALB9vtuV8c Quote
Areeb Posted November 9, 2019 Posted November 9, 2019 Solved, Guys use this website and copy the converted text and see the magic http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/ Don't forget to change font to Arial or any Arabic Supported Font thomaso and yoroshi 1 1 Quote
Mhamad Harmush Posted December 3, 2019 Posted December 3, 2019 We are 300 millions Arabic around the world. So this is a real problem that should be fixed. Quote
Usman Khwaja Posted February 14, 2020 Posted February 14, 2020 2020 indeed and still waiting for a roadmap to rtl support Quote
Ibrahim Posted March 20, 2020 Posted March 20, 2020 On 11/9/2019 at 12:32 PM, Areeb said: Solved, Guys use this website and copy the converted text and see the magic http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/ Don't forget to change font to Arial or any Arabic Supported Font It's working. Nice solution Quote
aelsharawi Posted April 3, 2020 Posted April 3, 2020 I guess this web site mentioned above solve the issue, thanks for the OP I think it is very easy to affinty engineers to implement this code inside the app Quote
Weekend Posted April 12, 2020 Posted April 12, 2020 (edited) I love affinity photo but I'm so glad I did not bought affinity designer! I use Inkscape and even inkscape (a free program btw!) can do Arabic! Edit: also that site is a hit or miss in writing so I import my writings from inkscape! Edited April 12, 2020 by Weekend tyu 1 Quote
ashf Posted April 26, 2020 Posted April 26, 2020 I think you could run a fundraising campaign on KickStarter or somewhere if you really need RTL support. The same idea with Affinity for Linux. Possibly need a couple of hundred thousand US dollar to implement it. East Asian have similar problem with vertical writing, so Arabic/Jewish and East Asian can work together for it. Quote
ashf Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 2 hours ago, tyu said: Affinity has enough money to do it alone ... Then just wait for it. it may be 2 or more years later from now on. Quote
Amadotti Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 Hello Everyone, Can you please clarify if RTL support is yet to come? I just purchased Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, it didn't come to mind that Arabic is not supported since this problem has been solved years ago with other pro applications, noticed this issue from previous comments in this forum has been there since 2015, I really hope were close by now into supporting Arabic, Many Thanks for this awesome application. Quote
ashf Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, Amadotti said: Hello Everyone, Can you please clarify if RTL support is yet to come? I just purchased Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, it didn't come to mind that Arabic is not supported since this problem has been solved years ago with other pro applications, noticed this issue from previous comments in this forum has been there since 2015, I really hope were close by now into supporting Arabic, Many Thanks for this awesome application. Like I mentioned above, Serif won't implement it at least for a few years. probably v2.0 or later. Quote
tyu Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 1 hour ago, ashf said: Like I mentioned above, Serif won't implement it at least for a few years. probably v2.0 or later. Who told you that? I'm sure it will be sooner. 🙄 it's one of the most requested feature! Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 12 minutes ago, tyu said: Who told you that? I'm sure it will be sooner. 🙄 it's one of the most requested feature! Serif staff have consistently said that it is a big job and will take a long time. It will require, basically, a complete rewrite of the existing text layout part of the applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
ashf Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 28 minutes ago, tyu said: Who told you that? I'm sure it will be sooner. 🙄 it's one of the most requested feature! Haven't you read though this topic from the beginning? Also I saw some other comments form Serif staff in this forum that says similar. Quote
tyu Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 It's been a long time since their last response. Quote
ashf Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 16 minutes ago, tyu said: It's been a long time since their last response. That's only less than one year old. Many in this forum who is having RTL/vertical writing problem have been waiting for 5 years. They indicate RTL won't be implemented before v2.0 that may be released at least 2 years later from now on. Quote
tyu Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 They are ready to work on it right now, they just need the right software engineer to do it. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/99030-and-then-that-happened/&do=findComment&comment=571766 Quote
ashf Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 18 minutes ago, tyu said: They are ready to work on it right now, they just need the right software engineer to do it. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/99030-and-then-that-happened/&do=findComment&comment=571766 Good, please go ahead and arrange some engineer for them. Have you found the one? it's been 4 month since you post it. Quote
tyu Posted April 28, 2020 Posted April 28, 2020 See my answer: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/99030-and-then-that-happened/&do=findComment&comment=571777 On 1/24/2020 at 11:21 AM, tyu said: I'm a USA citizen, so i'm not familiar with programmers in the UK. Maybe someone else here can help you. I wish. Quote
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