Expert: Amy - 1/15/2005

Question
Hi Anny,
i wish you can help me in this because I am turning crazy,
i am working in Power Mac G5 version 10.3.5 ...  1GB
iam asking about how to display Arabic fonts in the adobe
illustrator cs..it is the brand new one ,it cam in a pakage as
adobe suite
i installed Arabic fonts but unfortunately when i write using
them in illustrator they just don't appear as letters they appear
as questions mark ,so is there any way i can fix this

Answer
Hello Hazar,

Unfortunately, in order to use Arabic right-to-left reading fonts with the Adobe applications for Mac, you would have needed to purchase the Middle Eastern (ME) version of the Adobe Creative Suite.

http://www.adobeceea.com/products/ME/creativesuite/main.html

Maybe you could contact your vendor and exchange your copy the ME version.  That depends on how nice your vendor is and how long ago you purchased your copy.

I think you can place/paste Hebrew or Arabic text from Microsoft Word into Illustrator CS or InDesign CS (another product in Creative Suite). It will look as if it reads right to left, but the glyphs will be reversed... probably not very helpful if you are creating a large document in Arabic. I can't test this for you, as I work on a PC and fonts are handled differently.

Good luck
Amy