HadiMoosavi

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Q: Can I publish a book in Farsi (Persian) language?

I tried once to work with iBooks Author for a Persian text.

Of course Mac supports Farsi letters and a few fonts but that's it.

You can not find many fonts.

And it is really hard to format text in Farsi.

Can I install new Farsi fonts on Mac?

Is it possible to publish in Farsi?

Thanks,

Hadi

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Posted on May 21, 2014 9:28 AM

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by Tom Gewecke,

Tom Gewecke May 21, 2014 2:51 PM in response to HadiMoosavi
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May 21, 2014 2:51 PM in response to HadiMoosavi

Books in Farsi require epub3 format, so you have to use something else than iBA. Last I heard, the iBookstore was not accepting books in Farsi even in epub3, so you would need to use some other store. See

https://discussions.apple.com/message/25245059#25245059
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by Tom Gewecke,

Tom Gewecke May 21, 2014 3:12 PM in response to HadiMoosavi
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May 21, 2014 3:12 PM in response to HadiMoosavi

HadiMoosavi wrote:

You can not find many fonts.

You can find several at

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Persian.html

Support varies according to the app. MS Word has zero support. Mellel, Pages 5, TextEdit, Nisus Writer, OpenOffice have good support. Pages 4 and iBA are buggy.
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Cyrus_the_Great Aug 5, 2014 10:38 AM in response to HadiMoosavi
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Aug 5, 2014 10:38 AM in response to HadiMoosavi

Hi.
I have this problem too but I haven't tried EPUB3 yet. You mean there is no way to publish Arabic or Persian books for iBooks Store?
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by Tom Gewecke,

Tom Gewecke Aug 5, 2014 10:41 AM in response to Cyrus_the_Great
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Aug 5, 2014 10:41 AM in response to Cyrus_the_Great

Cyrus_the_Great wrote:

You mean there is no way to publish Arabic or Persian books for iBooks Store?

Check the Apple Formatting Guidelines. Last I looked Arabic/Persian was not yet supported:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2014/02/languages-not-yet-supported-in.html
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