Accessibility

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Extended CS3

Middle Eastern Features

Text Settings

Photoshop comes with special settings for typing and laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:

  • Possibility to use Arabic, Farsi or Hindi digits
  • Use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification
  • Set vowels /diacritics positioning
  • Ligature option
  • Justify text in three possible ways to get the results you want (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)

Additional Fonts

Photoshop supports most fonts shipped with the OS as well as a large number of third party fonts widely used by graphic designers in the Middle Eastern regions. Photoshop installs one additional font that facilitates your work in Middle Eastern languages: WinSoft Pro, which is available in four styles: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.

Bi-directional Text flow

In Photoshop, the notion of right-to-left behaviour applies to several objects: Paragraph and Character. You can easily mix Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right Words and Paragraphs in a document.

Dictionary and Hyphenation Module

Photoshop comes with a comprehensive dictionary for Arabic allowing you to spell check Arabic text with a choice of rules, like Strict Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
Photoshop comes with a Dictionary and Hyphenation Module for Hebrew.

Find / Replace

You can search for and change specific occurrences of Middle Eastern text. Photoshop includes a "Ignore Accent" option. When checked, the user can search for a string of text whether it contains some accents or not.

Save for Web

Special encodings have been added to allow this option to work with Middle Eastern languages.

Contact Sheet II / Picture Gallery / Smart Quotes

These options have been adapted to work correctly with Middle Eastern languages.