Persian (Farsi) font, letters not attached

ChuckeyT wrote:

Since it works in other softwares and the mac itself, it leads me to belive there may be a setting or something that I may need to change, or maybe a switch or something that needs to be made.

Unfortunately Pages has never been updated to be able to use Windows Arabic fonts. You have to use one of those supplied by Apple or an AAT font from elsewhere. There is no user fix for this, but you can ask Apple to fix it via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Regarding AAT Arabic fonts, Apple provides Geeza Pro, Al Bayan, Baghdad, Damascus, DecoType Naskh, KufiStandard, Nadeem. Others are (from SIL) Lateef AAT and Scheherazade AAT, and the XW Zar (and perhaps others) fonts available at

http://www.redlers.com/downloadfont.html

PS I forgot to mention that the best word processor for Persian is Mellel. Besides TextEdit, Nisus Writer and OpenOffice may work OK. MS Word for Mac does not support Arabic script.

Is there any way to render arabic font in html file for ios app or please send link for any persian , arabic font ..

falcon143 wrote:

Is there any way to render arabic font in html file for ios app or please send link for any persian , arabic font ..

You cannot add fonts to iOS. But you should have no problem seeing Arabic in iOS Safari. Can you not read this site?

http://www.ahram.org.eg/

Please provide more detailed info about your problem.

Thanks for the tip - installed Mellel and I have found it works well with Persian (unlike MS Word)

If you need to use word for mac inspire of all the above mentioned problems and should type in persian, you can try this:

Copy a couple of words or a sentence that is written in persian from anywhere (you can just download and keep a word or html file in persian from internet), then paste the sentence in your new word document. Now select the same sentence and begin typing your own words in place of the highlighted words. Now you can go on typing this new document in persian without that problem. Anytime this happens again you can just use the copy format key and copy the format from the correctly typed location and apply it to the other one.

That probably is a font issue.

The browser is using a compatible font for OSX and that is what is being pasted in Pages 5.

The orginal post was for the previous Pages '09, which had very bad Farsi support.

Peter

Peter -- zohre isn't talking about pages, he is providing a known workaround for getting Word for Mac to display connected arabic, which normally it will not do. This may be useful for some purposes for some people, but Word for Mac basically still does not support RTL, including the 2016 version for which a preview has been released.

Thanks Tom

Good to know. 🙂

Peter