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Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Middle Eastern version is a specific version of Adobe Acrobat,

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with improved support for Middle Eastern languages in the areas of: Search, Web
Capture and Text Edition.
This document contains a description of all the specific features created for the
Standard and Professional versions of Adobe Acrobat, Middle Eastern version.
You are advised to read this document in conjunction with the other documentation
that ships with Adobe Acrobat 8 Middle Eastern version.

Contents

2 TouchUp Properties
Arabic or Hindi Digits
Ligatures option
Main Paragraph Direction
Potential error Messages

5 Search/Find Middle Eastern Text

5 Copy/Paste Middle Eastern Text

6 Creating PDF documents from Web Pages with Middle Eastern characters

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TouchUp Properties
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Adobe Acrobat Middle Eastern version comes with special TouchUp properties
to handle the needs of Middle Eastern languages.

Although Adobe PDF documents are maximized for electronic document

distribution and exchange, you can do limited editing in a PDF document (e.g.
correct a misspelled word or overwrite some text). Remember that Acrobat is
not an authoring application. If you need to make extensive changes to a PDF
document, the best thing would be to edit the source file if it is available, or to
convert the PDF document to .rtf,.doc, or another format for editing.

Adobe Acrobat Middle Eastern versions come with enhanced features that
allow Middle Eastern users to work with the elements listed below:

Arabic or Hindi Digits

This Middle Eastern option lets you choose how the numbers are displayed.

When choosing Arabic Digits, the number 12345 will be displayed as 12345. If
you choose Hindi Digits, the same number 12345 will be displayed as 12345.
Of course this applies only if the font you are using contains both kinds of
digits.

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To switch to Hindi Digits inside a text box using TouchUp tool, do the

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following:
- Select the TouchUp tool
- Select the text you want to change: a text box will appear
- Right click on the text box and choose Properties
- In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, select ME Options tab and check
Hindi Numbers option to enable it.

Selecting this ME option with the use of TouchUp tool allows you to apply it
only to the text box which you are editing.

Ligatures option
This Middle Eastern option lets you control whether you want ligatures to be
used or not, provided that the selected font supports their usage.

With Ligatures OFF: With Ligatures ON:

To enable the Ligature option in a text box using TouchUp tool, do the
following:
- Select the TouchUp tool
- Select the text you want to change: a text box will appear
- Right click on the text frame and choose Properties
- In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, select ME Options and check
Ligatures option to enable it.

Selecting this ME option with the use of TouchUp tool allows you to apply this
option only to the selected text box.

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Main Paragraph Direction

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This Middle Eastern option controls the direction of the text in a text box. It is
important to set this option correctly, especially when typing multilingual texts
that mix right-to-left (Arabic or Hebrew) and left-to-right (Roman) words.

The sequence of words in the sentence can be affected by a wrong setting. Use
Right-to-Left option for the Main Paragraph Direction for Arabic or Hebrew
text containing few Roman (English, French, etc) words. Left-to-Right option
should be applied in case of using Roman text including few Arabic or Hebrew
words.

To change the Main Paragraph Direction inside a text box, do the following:
- Select the TouchUp tool
- Select the text you want to change: a text box will appear
- Right click on the text box and choose Properties
- In the TouchUp Properties dialog box, select ME Options and choose the
direction you wish to apply.

Selecting this ME option with the use of TouchUp tool allows you to apply this
option only to the selected text box.

Potential error Messages

In order to edit text in a PDF document, the font used in the document must
be embeddable (the font must be integrated into your system and into the PDF
document).

While using TouchUp tool, you can successfully type-in a character or a

representation of a character (Glyph*) if your computer has the same font as
the one embedded in the PDF document.

Error messages may appear in the following situations:

- If you select a font that is not embeddable and try to close the dialog box, you
will see the following pop-up message:
The selected font cannot be embedded in the PDF file due to licensing restrictions.
To avoid this situation, use a font which can be embedded in the file.

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- If the representation of a character (Glyph*) is not available in the PDF or is

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not available in a newly selected font, the following pop-up will appear and the
missing characters will be replaced by dots:
Some of the characters you typed are not available in the PDF, the missing
characters replaced by dots <..>. A work around to this is to select another font
containing the characters in TouchUp properties.

* A glyph is a representation of a character. The character A is represented by the glyph A in Times New
Roman Bold. Glyphs and characters do not strictly correspond one-to-one. For example a user might type
two characters, which might be better represented with a single ligature glyph. A font is a collection of
glyphs.

Search/Find Middle Eastern Text

By default, the Copy/Paste and Search options in a PDF document ignore
tags.

If you want to apply tags while using Search, do

the following:
- In the Acrobat menu, select Preferences, or
Command + K for Macintosh / Control + K
for Windows.
- Choose Search.
- Uncheck the option Ignore Page Structure.
It will be applied only on the PDF files opened
afterwards.

Once the option unchecked, Copy/Paste and

Search might not work correctly on some PDF
files.

Copy/Paste Middle Eastern Text

With Acrobat Middle Eastern version you can re-use Arabic and Hebrew texts
from a PDF file, as you do with English texts: you select the desired text, copy
it, switch to a text-capable application and paste. The Arabic/Hebrew text is
transferred to the application as text, and will be displayed correctly if the
application is able to handle correctly the Arabic or Hebrew script.

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When you select some text across several lines, Acrobat Middle Eastern version
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guesses whether the selected text is Arabic, Hebrew, or Roman and extends the
selection to the end of the line (on the left or on the right) automatically. The
selected text also keeps the fonts, size and style, which are applied when the text
is pasted in the new document.
When you paste text copied from a PDF, the ordering of word could have been
wrongly calculated because the direction of the paragraph has been incorrectly
decided by Acrobat. In that case you have to select the text again, press
Ctrl+Alt+C (or +Option+C on Mac) instead of Ctrl+C and paste again.

Creating PDF documents from Web Pages with Middle

Eastern characters
Adobe Acrobat Middle Eastern version allows you to open web pages within
the application and then save them in PDF format.
To Open a web page in Adobe Acrobat Middle Eastern version or append a web
page to an existing PDF document use the Open Web Page or
Append Web Page commands in the Advanced>WebCapture
menu. Please type here the URL of the web page you are trying
to access. The default URL is www.adobeme.com.
When you save a web page to PDF you can decide the encoding
options for different type of content like HTML data or Text etc.
For example for HTML data you need to select the HTML file
type Setting on the General tab and then press the Settings
button. Here on the Fonts and Encoding page you can set your
own preferences as shown in the picture on the left.

HTML Conversion Settings Dialog Box for converting Web Pages to PDF

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Some terms in the above picture are explained here:

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Always- This will ensure that the encoding you choose will always be applied
irrespective of the one defined in the HTML code of the web page you are
converting to PDF.
When Page doesnt specify encoding- Using this option will ensure that your
preferred encoding would be used if the HTML code of the web page does not
specify anything.
Specific Font Settings: Here you can set your preferences for the font that
is used for different parts of the document depending upon the language
subgroup you choose.
The Web page encodings available for your use in Adobe Acrobat, Middle
Eastern version are as follows:
Unicode 16 Arabic Windows
Arabic ISO-88596 Arabic Macintosh
Hebrew ISO-88598 (Visual) Hebrew Windows
Hebrew Macintosh

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