On 01/17/2012 07:52 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 01/17/2012 07:37 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: >> On 01/17/2012 04:31 AM, Jean-Louis Cordonnier wrote: >>> I want to write this in a text frame : >>> *Mahdia* (arabe : ???????) est une ville c?ti?re... >>> How can I get the arabic word from right to left ? >>> >> >> This remains clumsy. The worst case situation is when you want to have a >> bit of Arabic inside a frame with a left to right language. The bottom >> line is that it's probably not doable, at least in a straightforward way >> (see below). >> >> Here is what I find using 1.4.1svn: >> >> There is a button in Properties > Text > Color and Effects for right to >> left text -- the one with the backwards 'R' in it. Even if you are in >> Edit Contents mode, even with text highlighted, when you select this >> feature, all of the text in the frame switches to right to left. >> >> I'll have to see if one might create a Paragraph style that might allow >> something more restricted. >> >> One possible workaround worth trying, if you have only a single word in >> Arabic, would be to use inline graphics. This would require making a >> small frame with your Arabic and its right to left mode, then converting >> to outlines, then converting to image. Then copy this frame, at which >> time you can use this in another text frame in Edit Contents mode by >> pasting as you enter text. >> > > > As I look into this a bit more, I see you cannot specify right to left > in Paragraph/Character Styles. > Also, when I try to convert to outlines, then image with more than one > character, there are X's drawn through the outlines on conversion to > image, so this isn't feasible. >
Ah. Ok, now I'm getting somewhere. If you convert your reversed text to outlines, just copy and paste that, forget about conversion to image. Greg
