1 Reply Latest reply: Nov 11, 2010 1:46 PM by [Jongware] RSS

    Non-western languages showing up reversed...

    x_defect Community Member

      I'm trying to copy & paste various Indian languages from Word into my InDesign CS3 document, but in InDesign the foreign characters are not showing up properly - a lot of them are getting switched around/reversed, specifically with the Vrinda font.

      Is there a way to fix this - a certain plugin I need to install or something? If so where can I find it?

        • 1. Re: Non-western languages showing up reversed...
          [Jongware] Community Member

          InDesign CS3 does not support non-Western script layouts at all -- and that goes for both character direction and for the required enhanced support for special character placement.

           

          Simply adding plugins won't work. You have to either upgrade to CS3 ME ("Middle East" version), or to CS4 or CS5 (which can display non-western scripts, but in fact that's totally unsupported -- if you want to bet your own money on it, visit "In-Tools World Tools"; they go to great lengths explaining it's not a real replacement for a real ME version, which is a refreshingly honest approach), or to CS4 or CS5 ME versions, of which I know nothing more than that they exist.