hshaker77 Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 can you please add arabic support for the text tool . it will be a huge advantage for the software in the middle east as adobe already have it but your software are much much better . coral, Glicky, mossimo32001 and 3 others 6 Quote
Dave Harris Posted April 12, 2015 Posted April 12, 2015 We do hope to add right-to-left scripts eventually, but it won't be any time soon. Quote
mossimo32001 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Yeh, Probably didn't get us still.. if you manage to support arabic, the whole region of Middle east... will start revolting against adobe, And most middle east company and person are less pirating compared to other regions... means, overlooking big beneficial help, if you just keep adding features for the same market.... it wont make difference but adding features so other large market can join in the wagon and start supporting is different level of benefiting. probably my last post also for pushing the RTL points in this forum. pointery and affinity_amir 2 Quote
chehab Posted July 10, 2015 Posted July 10, 2015 Arabic/RTL support should be push on in your features priority. and should be expected soon. As "mossimo32001" mentioned the whole MINA region is a big market. I'm hoping to have Arabic support at least by the time Affinity Publisher beta is out, with Arabic support ;) Don't let me down, I've been AD preacher since the first beta. mossimo32001, reza55n, pointery and 1 other 4 Quote
albarghash Posted July 18, 2015 Posted July 18, 2015 I agree, we need Arabic Support so we can replace adobe subscription :( pointery, aialmana, Glicky and 1 other 4 Quote
Abdullah Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 We don't need the whole interface to be in Arabic, we just need the text tool to support RTL typing. I don't think this is hard to do! aialmana, Glicky, reza55n and 1 other 4 Quote
TarekRaafat Posted August 27, 2016 Posted August 27, 2016 +1 for RTL text support. I need it for Arabic. Glicky, reza55n and pointery 3 Quote
Sir Doyle Posted September 21, 2016 Posted September 21, 2016 Hi, Please add Arabic Support. I would like to know if this feature will be added on 1.5? Thanks Quote
Staff MEB Posted September 21, 2016 Staff Posted September 21, 2016 Hi Sir Doyle, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) We do plan to add Arabic support but not for version 1.5. This may still take a while since it's not something trivial to implement. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Omar Al-Washmy Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Do You plan support Arabic language ^^! Hexacker and newgraphics 2 Quote
newgraphics Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 I would love to see RTL supports for Arabic, the software is so amazing, it sucks that this is lacking. Especially considering that it was being developed 2 years ago. Thank you. Glicky 1 Quote
Dave Harris Posted September 12, 2017 Posted September 12, 2017 I'm afraid the status of this is unchanged: not any time soon. It's not (and never was) being actively developed. It's just something we have down to do eventually. Quote
alsarraf Posted November 3, 2017 Posted November 3, 2017 v1.6 has been released, and still no support for Arabic !!! coral and reza55n 2 Quote
Musaed Posted September 10, 2018 Posted September 10, 2018 On 4/12/2015 at 12:23 PM, Dave Harris said: We do hope to add right-to-left scripts eventually, but it won't be any time soon. Dare I ask why?! How tough can it be?! If Behdad Esfahbod single-handedly developed harfbuzz (for no money!) and made Scribus, LibreOffice, Android, etc support all types of complex and R-to-L languages and presented a wonderful service to billions of people why can't Serif do the same?! Quote
dominik Posted September 11, 2018 Posted September 11, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 5:46 PM, Musaed said: why can't Serif do the same?! Hi @Musaed, I think it is not about what Serif can do but more about what Serif can do first. Please believe me, I've read throuth the forum over a long time, if they could implement every important feature right away they would do it. But it just isn't possible. Serif has stated several times that R-to-L support is coming at some time but is completely open when this will be (and my guess is it will take longer than shorter). I feel with you that this must be dissapointing and I understand that there is no easy work around (I like to find work arounds). From my small (to non existant) understanding of programming I assume R-to-L support must be a major effort to implement. If not it would be available already. All the best d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
WellnessDS Posted September 12, 2018 Posted September 12, 2018 +1 please for adding RTL support. I have some customers who use RTL language sets, but I'm unable to use Affinity to meet their needs. Quote
Musaed Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 On 9/11/2018 at 7:13 PM, dominik said: Hi @Musaed, I think it is not about what Serif can do but more about what Serif can do first. Please believe me, I've read throuth the forum over a long time, if they could implement every important feature right away they would do it. But it just isn't possible. Serif has stated several times that R-to-L support is coming at some time but is completely open when this will be (and my guess is it will take longer than shorter). I feel with you that this must be dissapointing and I understand that there is no easy work around (I like to find work arounds). From my small (to non existant) understanding of programming I assume R-to-L support must be a major effort to implement. If not it would be available already. All the best d. Thanks, dominik. Yes, I and many others on this forum are quite disappointed. I do understand the general technical challenge but I have a hard time understanding why it has to be "years" into the future... If support for major RTL languages is not one of the priorities, then I don't know what is! They could at least give a general time frame. I personally need to know whether or not to invest time and money into Affinity products or to seek alternatives. At the moment I'm using Scribus, Inkscape, and GIMP. But I was lured by Affinity's intuitive user experience only to be shocked by the fact that RTL support is absent and not even planned for the near future... Rancher 1 Quote
dominik Posted September 13, 2018 Posted September 13, 2018 3 hours ago, Musaed said: but I have a hard time understanding why it has to be "years" into the future... 'Years' is certainly a long period to wait and I have not seen any other information in the forum, that is more precise. I assume the people at Serif have come to the conclusion to be anxious with that kind of announcements because there were many complaints about the somewhat delayed release of APub beta. It must be really hard for them to find the right balance between their rather open communication and not promising too much d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
coral Posted November 30, 2018 Posted November 30, 2018 +100 for RTL text support. I need it for Arabic. Glicky 1 Quote
Musaed Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 Seems like a hopeless request right now. I renewed subscription to Adobe CC. Glicky 1 Quote
hamashexler1996 Posted January 13, 2019 Posted January 13, 2019 1 + for Kurdish and Arabic please help us migrate from adobe products Middle East needs Support for middle eastern languages Glicky 1 Quote
Jeremy Knowles Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 On 4/12/2015 at 11:23 AM, Dave Harris said: We do hope to add right-to-left scripts eventually, but it won't be any time soon. But why? Quote
Glicky Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 RTL support pleeeease... On 7/28/2015 at 1:36 PM, Abdullah said: We don't need the whole interface to be in Arabic, we just need the text tool to support RTL typing. Agree. Quote
coral Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Year 2019. But we are still hopeful. Waiting for RTL support. Would be of immense benefit and a great update. Glicky 1 Quote
Paul.mmm Posted December 7, 2019 Posted December 7, 2019 Amazed to discover no Arabic support in Affinity today. Even in the english speaking parts of the world we still work for clients requiring this. + 100 for Arabic Support Affinity Quote
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