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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 ME (Middle Eastern) is an enhanced version of the world leading
application, adapted for Middle Eastern users.
Photoshop ME includes a modified version of the Type Tool, which allows typing text
in languages such as Arabic or Hebrew according to the operating system installed
on the computer.

Features adapted for Middle Eastern Languages

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Type Tool 2
Enhanced Copy and Paste 4
File Browser 4
Photoshop ME Preferences 4
Known Limitations 5

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Type Tool
Character Direction
This option is helping you to force a
character direction it can be helpful
when you are trying to type “.1” in
a paragraph with a Right to Left
alignment without typing the dot “.”
before the one “1”.

Ligatures
This option allows you to choose
whether to apply ligatures or not. This option only affects
selected text in Arabic, Roman (for ligatures such as oe æ fi
fl) and Hebrew for some consonant- vowels combinations,
providing more precise positionning of the diacritics.

‫ﻟﻤﺤﺖ‬ ‫ﶈﺖ‬
Four characters The same four
with Ligatures characters with
turned OFF Ligatures turned
ON

Hindi Numbers
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This option allows you to choose whether to display digits

as Hindi numerals or Arabic numerals
When “Hindi Numbers” is checked the sequence 123 will display ١٢٣ otherwise, it
will display 123.

Kashidas
When the paragraph is full justified, a kashida is inserted between characters that
have the feature on, and not inserted between characters that have the feature off.
When applying positive Kerning between two Arabic characters that connect, the
additional space is filled with kashida

Diacritics
Manually, the horizontal position of a diacritic is controlled by applying kerning
while the vertical position is controlled by applying baseline shift.
Automatic adjustment of Arabic diacritics, is controlled by the “Diacritics positionning”
options.

‫ُﻛِﺘُﺐ‬ ‫ُﻛِﺘُﺐ‬ ‫ُﻛِﺘُﺐ‬ ‫ُﻛِﺘُﺐ‬

Tight Normal Loose None

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Paragraph direction and paragraph palette.

Paragraph direction is governed by either the two arrows in the type tool bar or by
the menu of the paragraph pallette.

This option controls the main writing direction of the paragraph.

When this option is “Right to Left” the line direction of the text is right to left,
otherwise, the line direction is left to right (Roman).
(Rq: It is important to differentiate the line direction from the alignment. The line
direction controls the order, inside the line, of multidirectional text. The alignment
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controls the placement of the whole line in reference to the insertion point on the
image. Changing the line direction doesn’t affect alignment and vice-versa).
If your text is mainly Arabic or Hebrew, check the “Right to Left” option, otherwise,
make sure to check the “Left to Right” option.
To see how the “Right to Left” option affects the appearence of a multidirectional
text read through the next examples.
Let’s consider this sentence:
‫ ﺗﻌﻨﻲ ﺳﻼم‬peace‫ﻛﻠﻤﺔﭨ‬
If the line direction is right to left then the text will appear like this:
‫ ﺗﻌﻨﻲ ﺳﻼم‬peace‫ﻛﻠﻤﺔﭨ‬
If the line direction is left to right the the text will appear like this:
‫ﻛﻠﻤﺔ‬peace‫ﺗﻌﻨﻲ ﺳﻼم‬
As you can see the order of words is changed, that’s why you should check the right
to left line option when most of the text is from right to left.

Let’s consider another translation of the same sentence:

The word ‫ ﺳﻼم‬means peace.
If the line direction is left to right then the text will appear like this:
The word ‫ ﺳﻼم‬means peace.
If the line direction is right to left then the text will appear like this:
The word ‫ ﺳﻼم‬means peace.
As you can see the order of words is changed, that’s why you should not check the
right to left line option when most of the text is from left to right.

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Enhanced Copy and Paste

This essential feature has been adapted to support Right to Left scripts. Phostoshop
ME gives a full support for Copy/Paste to Acrobat ME, InDesign ME and all standard
Macintosh an Windows applications.

File Browser
Supports ME characters for file name in the file browser. The sort by filename option
has been enhanced to Support ME characters.

Photoshop ME Preferences
• Sort Font Menu by Scripts
This option allows you to sort the font menu by languages. When this option is
checked the font menu is sorted first by Language and then by alphabetical order.
Otherwise font menu is sorted by alphabetical order.

• Keyboard Synchronisation
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This option allows you to choose whether to synchronise your keyboard with the
font you select or not. When “Keyboard Synchronisation” is unchecked whatever font
you select in the font menu, the keyboard stays in the language as before selecting
the font.

• Enhanced font support

Photoshop ME enhanced font support is provided by a text file located under
“Photoshop ME/ME Support”. This file "intlFontDB.txt" is used to indicate Fonts that
need special support by Photoshop CE as well as customizing complementary fonts.
When encountering problems with fonts, you may need to add an entry for this
specific font to this file. If after doing this modification and having restarted your
Photoshop CE you still encounter trouble, please contact our technical support.
(Support@winsoft.fr)
Most likely, the reason why the font is not working is:
- The Font does not follow platform rules for script or charset attribute
- The Font is very old and does not have valid Unicode information, so it requires
special support
- A particular Font is to be used when a glyph is missing in the Font currently used.

For detailed information in regards of adding entries in "IntlFontDB.txt" file please

refer to the file itself.

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Known Limitations
Notes Tool, File browser, and ME localised file name are only supported on the following
systems:
On Mac,
Localised version of Mac OS 9.x,

On Windows,
Localised version of Windows 98
for Windows 2000 and XP only if the “locale” is set to a ME language in the regional
settings, control panel.
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