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Arabic script with Fill & Sign

This topic has been discussed before, but I want to share one thing the team might find useful.

Now we tell all Acrobat users that Adobe Fill and Sign doesn't support Arabic. But when you look at it, we are able to type Arabic very well on Desktop machines and mobile devices.

On a Mac for instance, as an Adobe CC subscriber, I have to choose English in Preferences for my Acrobat language in order to show [ Fill & Sign, Send and Track, and Send for Signature ] features in Tools workspace. If I go and change Acrobat language to Arabic, or English with Arabic Support above three features will not be displayed any longer. Here is a discussion on Adobe Forums https://forums.adobe.com/message/7575939#7575939

I cannot test Arabic with Adobe Fill and Sign with Acrobat Language changed to Arabic in Preferences to see if it handles Arabic fully. I bet Acrobat team can do this for us.

To shed light on this issue… as long as I'm within the Fill & Sign environment, I'm able to type and view Arabic that I typed as expected, it is once I leave Fill &Sign environment that Arabic words get fragmented and all characters get disjointed. So could this be to the fact that we must change the Language of Acrobat itself to Arabic so that Fill & Sign to function well? This I cannot verify and test due to he reason I mentioned above that some features will disappear from Acrobat upon selecting Arabic for language.

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  • Amir Saleh Basha commented  ·   ·  Report

    it is very annoying issue especially when converting pdf to excel ... Arabic letters becomes unreadable !

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

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  • Mourad commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix the Arabic fill in Acrobat Dc, Thank you

  • Farid commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix to type in Arabic

  • مهدي commented  ·   ·  Report

    Arabic is most 5th spoken language in the world...
    But for adobe, they don't care to fix this simple issue...
    Disgusting...

  • Muhammadhu Saabir commented  ·   ·  Report

    Arabic is most 5th spoken language in the world...
    But for adobe, they don't care to fix this simple issue...
    Disgusting...

  • shohel commented  ·   ·  Report

    ANYONE HELP ME

    I M USING J QUERY DATA TABLE FOR ECXEL AND PDF AND I DOWNLOAD THE PDF THEN ARABIC DATA IS NOT SHOW PROPERLY ?HOW TO SOLVE??

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    when I type by Fill & Sign tool, the letters become disjoint. Please fix the problem

  • Malek BADI commented  ·   ·  Report

    in Searchable PDFs ... Arabic Text is REVERSED ...

    To reconstruct the issue or BUG ...

    Download Google's Tesseract-OCR

    run Tesseract-OCR to generate a searchable PDF from an image that has some Arabic Text with

    the following command line:

    c:\test> tesseract TEST.JPG Test -l ara+eng PDF

    Open the output file TEST.PDF in the following programs:

    Adobe Reader - Internet Explorer - Microsoft Edge Browser and Google Chrome
    and see the behavior for highlighting text , or copying text or saving as text !!!!

    Google's Chrome correctly handles the file

    I wonder how on earth Adobe fails in handling their own products !!!!

    not to say the least for Microsoft .. which poorly handles the file in their browsers as well as in SharePoint Indexing !!!

  • Mohammed Amer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix this bug as I believe you have tons of users who are Arabs and they deserve your attention !!

  • Mohammad commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is a frustrating problem indeed

  • Zaid Al Hilali commented  ·   ·  Report

    So sad to read "Anonymous" comment on the Fill & Sign issue with Arabic. I apologise to "Sandeep" whomever he is, and other programmers and developers in Acrobat team for the racist comments made.

    You "Anonymous" didn't help us with your offensive comments, it saddens me more to see your comments associated with the iconic image of Ka'ba as non-muslims may think this is what Islam teaches us! الله يسامحك

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