Accepting text in Arabic Font

Can any body help me out to enter a text
in Arabic font in Forms

1. Install Arabic Windows
2. Install Oracle Forms with Arabic Language supplement
3. In forms, set the item level properties in the International section as desired.
4. When running the form, set the keyboard state to type in Arabic.
Above all, the database must be using a characterset that supports Arabic

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Do I need to download something to be able to use them?
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To be more precise what is required is the Illustrator ME or on of the Suites also the ME version, which is the Middle East version. Adobe designates the version using the intials ME.
That will work with both Arabic and Hebrew.
Otherwise you have to one type backwards and use tracking of a negative amount sufficient to have the letters touch and make a character style and apply it to all text you want arabic.
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However, at home (XP-64), when I type in the TLF box in CS4, I only get ????? showing.If I copy and paste Arabic from Notepad into the text box, the arabic text shows up with no problem. I've tried using Adobe Arabic, Transparent Arabic, and Standard Arabic font with the same results.
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Hi azeem
I have been learning how to deal with arabic fonts now in flash10 and from what i have read up so far adobe has stopped updating the TLF component and it is been said it will only reappear with flash11 again. So if there is a bug with 64 bit os , then it is stuck like that for now. Another point to mention while using the forums and from personal testing is that the adobe arabic font will not handle diacritics correctly. You should try use Arial version 4 (the arial that ships with vista , the arial that shipped with xp is also faulty).
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Problem with Arabic font: In certain contexts, when writing Arabic with vowel signs (fatha, damma, kasra, sukun) a sequence of sukun fatha/damma etc. would reverse automatically. Is this a known bug?

Problem with Arabic font: In certain contexts, when writing Arabic with vowel signs (fatha, damma, kasra, sukun) a sequence of sukun + fatha/damma etc. would reverse automatically. Is this a known bug?
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Musaafir wrote:
I've no idea how i can even start using arabic vowels on Microsoft Word for Apple
You can't do Arabic on MS Word for Mac. This app has never supported RTL scripts, so you need to use something else. Mellel is best, but Pages 5, TextEdit, Nisus Writer, Open/LibreOffice should work OK.
You switch between languages by using the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen or by using the keyboard shortcuts apple/command plus space. Go to system prefs/keyboard/shortcuts to make sure that is activated.
To see which key does what, you use Keyboard Viewer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13746
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I was using Indesign CS2 and just upgraded to CS4. I was heavily using "traditional arabic" font in CS2 without any problem.
For those who don't know, in arabic, each letter is represented differently according to its place inside a word. Almost all letters have 4 different forms, at the begining, in the middle at the end and alone.
After the upgrade I can insert only the letter at the begining form. I can clearly see all fonts in all forms in glpyhs table.
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This not a locked Windows font because I was using it in Indesign CS2 without any problem.
In Help>About section all I see, is CS4 6.0. So this in not a Middle Eastern version.
For the moment I found the following solution :
I found an Open Type Arabic Font.
When I type something with this font "propositional forms" setting is set to "General", this is the default setting and I was unable to set "Automatic" as default. First I type something in Arabic then I select the text and set "propositional forms" setting to "Automatic".Yes it is a little bit cumbersome but this is the only solution I found.
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Arabic fonts problem

Hi All!
I'm working with Macromedia Flash MX 6.0 (Thats not a
professional version).
Here is a picture showing you my ideas.
I want to make a registration form that needs user to type
his/her information in
Persian/Arabic.(I mean persian or arabic fonts)
I have a "Input Text Field" there and the characters doesnt
attache eachother.
Note:
I have one software 'Maryam'. I can write in Arabic in this
software and copy to clipboard
and paste it in a flash text field.But for users i can do
that!!! users should type dirrectly in
text fields, you know!?
I hope you got my idea exactly.(Because of my weak english
probably!!)
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Originally posted by:
ebad293
Hi All!
I'm working with Macromedia Flash MX 6.0 (Thats not a
professional version).
Here is a picture showing you my ideas.
I want to make a registration form that needs user to type
his/her information in
Persian/Arabic.(I mean persian or arabic fonts)
I have a "Input Text Field" there and the characters doesnt
attache eachother.
Note:
I have one software 'Maryam'. I can write in Arabic in this
software and copy to clipboard
and paste it in a flash text field.But for users i can do
that!!! users should type dirrectly in
text fields, you know!?
I hope you got my idea exactly.(Because of my weak english
probably!!)
Whats your solutions?

Safari not displaying Arabic font

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I can't find how to do this in Safari. Right now it's displaying a default simple font. I've tried deleting duplicate MS Office fonts but that didn't work.
Could you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing (tom at bluesky dot org) and also provide the url? Normally Safari should always use Geeza Pro. Perhaps I can identify what is interfering.

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Just as a follow up to this problem if anyone else is
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developers of the Arabic font (
http://www.grapheast.com).
They described it as a Unicode issue and said they would have to
update their font, which they promptly did in about an hour and
fortunately for us, it worked straight up.
http://www.brashbrands.com/ar/
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Import a word document composed in Arabic font (.ttf) into a .fla

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I am developing an advance e-book in Flash. My client has composed about 500 books in arabic using Microsoft Word. My client wants search features in this book in which the user will type something in arabic & it will search the ebook text and give him results, so I cannot convert the text into vector or image I have to keep it as text. I want Import a word document composed in Arabic font (.ttf) into a .fla file without losing its formatting. Rightnow I am able to import the font using copy/paste from the word document into Flash, but it changes the font, but I fixed it by changing the text property from "classic text" to "TLF text" which fixed the font. Even though the copy/paste method works without formatting its not practical for my project because there are thousands of pages and copy/pasting them one by one frame by frame is time consuming & not practical.
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I have an application that is localized into Arabic. On three machines I have access to to test on (Windows Vista, OS X, and Fedora 9), when the locale is set to Arabic, the UI is rendered correctly - menus, buttons, etc. all have their text rendered in Arabic and look fine.
The person that translated the text into Arabic, however, doesn't have the same results. He's running Linux (can't remember what flavor) and when he runs the application, the Arabic text all comes out as boxes. He says this is the case for any LookandFeel he tries (Metal that hideous GTK, Nimbus).
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His machine's default locale is Arabic, and other (non-Java) applications render Arabic text fine.
He's using Sun Java 1.6 (not sure what minor release though), not GNU Java.
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Sorry, I haven't a clue regarding a possible solution, but I thought I'd share this:
BoBear2681 wrote:
I noticed that several UI keys such as "Menu.font" and "Button.font" are using a Deja Vu font on my Vista system when rendering Arabic. He says his system does have Deja Vu fonts installed, but when he's getting his boxes displayed, it seems these properties are set to some other Bitstream Vera font.According to [this page|http://linux.wareseeker.com/Desktop-Environment/dejavu-fonts-2.19.zip/314962]
The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts
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i always have this problem when installing the dreaded MS Office for Mac on any OSX system and that is that Arabic fonts that work fine start going haywire because MS Office Mac installs some funky corrupt fonts.
Does anyone know how to go back to the original pre-office installed fonts that came with OSX snow leopard? im guessing i have to use the install discs or something.
i've tried to selectively figure out what Office has installed and remove them and its a pain.
on a related note, will Office do fine if I dont allow it to install its own fonts on my system?

tom -
i am not sure of the specifics but here's some info from a poster on a board:
"2) There is an entirely separate issue about viewing Arabic in Safari. Installing MS Office for Mac also installs Office fonts on your Mac. Two of those fonts (specifically Arial and Times New Roman) will corrupt Safari's ability to display Arabic properly and you will wind up with disjointed Arabic text like ? ? ? instead of ???
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http://www.emiratesmac.com/forums/arabic/604-writing-displaying-arabic-my-mac-3. html
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Problem with arabic fonts

hi , i just downloaded photoshop and i made it middle east for the arabic & i installed a library of arabic fonts , the problem is ps writting any arabic text with those fonts wrong and it`s very heavy while writing but he is writing normal the arabic text with mac fonts , can this issue fixed or can i rest my fonts ?
hint --> as i`m new in mac i put the arabic fonts in many folders :
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You normally have to use Mac fonts when writing Arabic.
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http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa

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