Arabic text in Illustrator... EPIC FAIL!
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- maikel
Ok, long story short, there's a project for Middle East. The guy supposed to read proof the artwork says just before printing:
"yeah, the text instead of 'this is a house' reads more like 't h i s i s a h o us e' "
Then, just panic.
Anybody with similar problems out there? Is there life beyond Illustrator? Should I install CorelDraw for F*ck sake?
- _me_0
my local university language school faculty helped me on such a thing the other week - i simply faxed them a layout of it it - 30mins later i got a fax back from them and "kerned" it.
- maikel0
Well, that's handy... but as we got a 5 year contract with this people we will actually need a software that can handle that without having to re-kern each line every time that a change is made.
One of my mates is on the phone with adobe middle east (has been there about 30' now) but still no solution : (
- monospaced0
"this is a house" is English
- MakeBelieve0
Maikel - either you are having a kerning problem, as what lukus_W mentioned or the Arabic support is lacking at the printer end. Either send the artwork outlined, so the Arabic text is not in need of the actual font.
Or you may need to do the artwork in either Adobe Illustrator ME (Middle East version) or Corel Draw (which supports Arabic).
I deal with Arabic regularly, so have the ME suit as standard now (stopped buying the normal Adobe collections).
If you have a four-year contract, get Corel Draw (I hate it) or invest in AI ME.
- When there is lack of Arabic font support, the letters separate and do not connect, its not kerning, its broken.MakeBelieve