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by marmee 1203 days ago
> Photoshop breaks Arabic. We even have a website that will break our Arabic so that Photoshop breaks it back to normal. Yes, Adobe is aware. No, they do not care.

Photoshop since time immemorial had a Middle East edition (ME) which supported RTL and used to curb piracy

I don’t know how it’s with their new pseudo-sass but I think they integrated it into their main product
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khaled 1203 days ago
Photoshop relatively recently consolidated its text layout into a single layout engine (based on HarfBuzz) and Arabic support no longer an opt-in (which was the source of the trouble, you had to know you need to opt-in Arabic support before installing the application)

https://helpx.adobe.com/lv/photoshop/using/unified-text-engi...

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chakintosh 1203 days ago
Oh man. I remember from 15 years ago or so when I used to struggle with arabic script, would often resort to writing in another software and exporting it to PNG or EPS in order to use it in PS. Luckily, there was a 3rd party add-on that fixed that issue.
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