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I'm trying out the 30 day trial of iWorks.

However, I encountered problems with RTL languages. As mentioned on this forum already one of those problems is that you cannot place the cursor within the text. You can click and press space or delete, but you will never know whether you clicked right as the cursor does not move with the mouse.

Another problem is that when I want to save a document in RTL language (with a Windows compatible font) as a Windows Word copy, Windows Word or Mac Office Word does not treat it as a RTL language, but as a LTR language messing it all up.

I could overcome the first problem, although it is annoying. The second one is a needed one as I'm sending documents to windows-users who need to be able to read the documents properly. If that fails for RTL-documents, I see no use in buying iWorks. Perhaps there is a solution for this second problem. If not,.. I'd like to know when it's expected that there will be more proper RTL-support.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Dec 15, 2009 10:54 AM

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Dec 15, 2009 11:07 AM in response to Suzshie

Apple employees are not usually visiting this forum, and even if they did, it is unlikely that they would make that kind of information public here.

Personally, I would not hold my breath for usable RTL support in Pages. The limitations were obviously noticed already in Pages 1.0. We are now at version 4, and nothing has happened in this area. There are problems with other languages as well, like Japanese, where vertical script is not supported. My personal guess is that Apple has no plans to ever support these features in Pages, but I hope I am wrong.

Dec 15, 2009 11:40 AM in response to Suzshie

Another problem is that when I want to save a document in RTL language (with a Windows compatible font) as a Windows Word copy, Windows Word or Mac Office Word does not treat it as a RTL language, but as a LTR language messing it all up.


Hopefully you are aware that Word for Mac has no support for RTL at all (nor any Indic scripts).

As for Windows Word, have you tried all three options ( .doc and .rtf and .txt ) and found that RTL produced in Pages shows up as LTR?

Pages RTL bugs are shared by the rest of iWork plus iWeb. Mellel is the best app for RTL on a Mac, but you can also use a number of others like TextEdit, Nisus Writer, OpenOffice, etc.

To tell Apple about improvements you want to see, go here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

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