I was interested in something which concerns Flash designers & developers particularly in this (Middle East) part of the world in almost every Flash project they work on. That is Arabic support in Flash, which was not there in any older version of Flash.
To find the answer for same I found out http://cs5.org/ and ended up reading this post
I watched the above video to the end but in last 10 mins i got really excited when the guy started talking about vertical (Japnese) and RTL (Arabic) languages support in Flash CS5.
But at the end of Arabic example when the guy renders flash file to create swf, i was disappointed to saw nothing new except the same old problem. As the guy didn’t know Arabic language & its characters, he didn’t feel the difference between the text he copied and pasted in flash and the text which flash rendered as swf.
As everybody else I am also desperately waiting for Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Adobe CS5) & especially for Adobe Flash CS5 for number of reasons, few of which are that Adobe Flash CS5 have now
- Packager for iPhone
- New text capabilities via the Text Layout Framework (TLF)
- XML based FLA files
- Code Snippets panel
Developing iPhone native application in flash is no doubt a breakthrough and opens a whole world of new ideas & business opportunities, but if Adobe provides complete support of Arabic in Flash CS5 that will really help Arabic Flash Designers & Developers to create iPhone apps in Arabic with lot of ease.
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Khalid Putres
April 30th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Hi,
When you demonstrated the Right-To-Left text block, it showed correct Arabic script. But when you opened the select box, the rendering of the Arabic characters was wrong. The select box was showing isolated character rather than joined ones!
Cheers,
Khalid