I downloaded Badiya font from font.com to my mac 10.5.4. The characters are all separate. anyone knows how to get Arabic fonts to work in Illustrator and Photoshop? Thanks.
Typophile
Arabic characters are all separate
You need the Middle East version of Adobe applications to work with Arabic. The basic versions do not support right-to-left text.
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