Character direction in CC indesign

Hi there, I cannot find how to access the character direction in CC indesign. As I am working with arabic characters. Thanks

No issues on your downloading. Probably a layout mishap. But the Gallery of drawing and type tools are on p20-21.

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I've searched for Character Direction and seen mainly mentions of ME and foreign language conversions right to left and left to right. We do not use ME or any foreign language features. The behavior I'm troubleshooting for InDesign CS5 7.0.3 importing Word 2003 docs on a Windows XP macine, is as follows:
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Now I am left only with the character direction Left To Right override, which I can't figure out how to fix.
I can't find a way to set this in Word, and I can't find a way (since I don't have ME) to change it in InDesign. It is not practical for me to run a script for every import or continue to reset the overrides manually, because we simply don't have to the time, our deadlines are too tight and frequent. Plus, if we miss one, there are definite consequences, because the data is exported in a variety of formats for reuse automatically via scripts, and the override is messing up my exports.
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I hate it when I know too much about MS Word.
I don't have Word accessible right now, but you can set character direction in (the Windows version of) Word. I don't remember the exact details off-hand. Character direction is not the only overrides I've seen make its way in. I've seen some CJK features get imported as overrides as well (by users not using CJK languages).
It actually depends on your OS and your version of Word, I think. In Word 2007 on Windows 7, you need to have a RTL keyboard installed in order to expose the right-to-left-paragraph and left-to-right-paragraph buttons on the ribbon. I think that Asian scripts are on in all installs of Word 2007, but since our OS has some Asian keyobards turned on by default by Group Policy, I'm unsure of this. In Word 2003 on Windows XP, you need the, oh heck I can't visualise the menu, something like "Enable complex script support for right-to-left languages" in the Region and Language tab in Control Panel.
For all recent versions of Word, you can check the Fonts window (control-D) to see if you have one, two, or three scripts enabled.
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Asian text font = CJK
Complex scripts = Thai/Lao/etc. and Arabic/Farsi/etc.
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You are mixing two concepts. There is a
i major
difference between a
b glyph
and a
b character.
A glyph is any singular graphic in a font.
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i is
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i characters
but not for
i glyphs
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i downloaded a few hours ago the free one month trial of cc
and i downloaded illustrator
but i seem to be missing the option to change the type directon from right to left and from left to right
at first it wrote hebrew words opposite... so if i write "hello" it would write"olleh" (in hebrew ofcourse)
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http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/tag/world-ready-composer
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/indic-support.html
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_cs6_hebrew_supported_versi on_apply_middle_eastern_composer_missing
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I keep getting an override in my Paragraph Style-menu saying: "Character Direction: Left To Right". It might have to do with the fact that I'm using styles that were created in CS3 - I'm using old .indd-files.
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Thnx.
Gijs

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G

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