Arabic Fonts

**noon** · 24 March 2001, 11:52 PM

Well AJ the solution is just go to this forum and ask how it is done. The forum is in arabic but u can post ur question in English.

the forum is here
http://maxforums.net
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**ooshoo** · 30 October 2005, 12:18 PM

i really do not know wht to do

**sallybode** · 30 October 2005, 06:11 PM

There is an Arabic version of Windows, in which case the keyboarding works according to the language which is as you say reading right to left rather than European languages, left to right.

However, if you wanted to change the font into shapes or curves or outlines, the "description" matters little so long as you change the letters into the same type of an object that Xara recognizes as an editable shapes, then you can import the shapes into Xara 3D the same as any other shapes you could import.

Some programs support drag and drop sometimes with some keyboard commands usually holding down a key such as "Ctrl", "Alt" or "Shift" or a combination of these three, which means you do not need to save the program and then open it up, or they support the same Windows Clipboard allowing them to paste "curves" into the other program. Often the paste command will launch a dialogue box from which you choose what type of object you are pasting. The only way to know if you can drag between programs is to try it. For example you can drag work from CorelDRAW into Xara Xtreme holding down the "Ctrl" key, however, it does not reciprocate: you cannot drag work from Xara back into CorelDRAW. You can also paste paths from DRAW into Xtreme, but not from Xtreme into DRAW. Forget trying it with Illustrator, does not work. However, you may have other options if you try it, might work, if it does work, you have a big time saver right there.

In regards to the Arabic version of Windows, how all programs behave within it, is really dependant upon the program. Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. work under that format, but I do not know about graphics programs.

The shell in which you operate, i.e. Windows being the "shell", the underlying program language the same as with HTML language, is English. And though MAC doesn't use the same operating system, it was also written in English. I do not know if there is an MAC OS which is for Arabic.

**AKHTARAMIN** · 01 November 2005, 06:07 AM

Here is example how I wrote EID GREETINGS . I tpyed in power point then pasted the meta file.

**sallybode** · 04 November 2005, 01:47 AM

Well, I just learned something, I get files in in PowerPoint and didn't know you could do that.

That is a good tip.

**army2002** · 12 November 2005, 02:45 PM

Hi
Unfortunately, 3D Xara does not support Arabic. You have to use third party software such as Al Rassam, BuRsheed and Arabic Text Editor, to write and then copy and paste it in 3D Xara

**smoke** · 11 November 2006, 11:10 PM

As I read on the latest posts about Xara and Arabic, I'm an Arabic designer, who is using Xara also in making logos and vector files, and I used to have this issue in most of the new graphic programs, here in Egypt, sometimes we get an ME versions of programs i.e Adobe Photoshop ME 'Middle East', which supports Arabic, also Microsoft's products i.e Word, it's not only the text alignment to the right as you may think, it is the way the software wrap the text and the characters.

Let's talk a look about how Microsoft support Arabic in HTML, most of the html tags support the dir "direction attribute, which is by default set to ltr= Left To Right, but if you set it to rtl=Right to Left,, you will notice for example, that the browser right-scroll bar, displayed on the left
<HTML dir="rtl">

in Xara, I used a 3rd party tool, that it has it's own fonts, to type Arabic in Xara, actually I still can use it in whatever graphic software to display Arabic text, simply, I type the text on this tool, I use copy to clipboard , I past it in Xara, I change the font and select on of those fonts which come with the software, then I can see the Arabic very well.
The tool name is "Arabic 3DS MAX 2! Text Editor"

Problem that Xara doesn't have ME support, also Flash, where Swish does !, have also another issue with Xara since long time, which is the text-underline.

Liked Xara very much, and hope they can add those missing futures to their new releases, asi don't really found good improvement between my old Xara and the new version !, and I wish if they just take a look about the vector "burshs" in fireworks, and the other options in the other vector tools and consider it in their new releases.

Thanks.

**Availor** · 12 November 2006, 05:06 AM

Hello,

Xara, like many other Eiropean programs does not support Middle-Eastern fonts. The only way you can achieve this is by doing the following:

If you get gibberish instead of letters then you will need to install Arabic support in windows.

If you can see letters which are reversed (i.e. instead of salam you get malas) you can do the following:

Take a font editor program, like Phontographer, and just mirror rotate all your fonts to 90 degrees. Save your fonts with a different name, like X_font.

When you use that font in any graphical program you will type from left to right, but with a mirrored image. Then you just need to mirror your type and continue writing as usual.

Unfortunately I don't have Arabic fonts because I don't use them, so I cannot make a screenshot for you, but if you need further instructions you can ask me and I will try to guide you through.

**salaam** · 18 July 2007, 02:01 PM

It doesn't seem to cut and paste into X3D for me.
How did you do it?

EDIT: salaam, the post your question refers to has been deleted due to possible spamming. If the poster supplies further information the deletion might be lifted . Egg

**ren2980** · 20 July 2007, 09:31 PM

XaraX 3D6 can handle different languages without any problems.

As you can see that English, Chinese( in yellow) and Japanese (in Green) are working together in the attached image.

For users of Arabic language in Windows XP, please refer to the following lnk:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/D...s/Locales.mspx

Various locales for different languages are handy to solve out input problems.