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ArabicText
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Entering Arabic language text into After Effects without assistance fails because Arabic flows right-to-left while English flows left-to-right. Simply reversing the text (for example using the TextReverser script) does not work because the letters don’t link properly after they are reversed. This script deals correctly with medial letterforms and flows the text from right to left.
Since After Effects is built to work with text that flows from left to right, certain directional animation presets like “Typewriter” don’t work with RTL languages. We can’t re-engineer all of the presets but we will try to do some of the popular ones:
RTL Animation Presets: (Install in Presets folder)
- Typewriter-RTL Currently this preset only works with 2 keyframes that reveal the text from beginning to end. – Demo Video
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- ArabicText UI
Version History
2.0 Added Farsi letters, CS5 compatible and support for non-english AE 05/2011
1.0 Initial Release 03/2010
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Outstanding! A real time saver.
Does this script works with After Effects 5 ?
You rock señor! I really really really appreciate your script! FYI I use it to display farsi characters and it does the trick!
That is the ONE. All Arabic Designers was waiting for it, Thank you very very very much.
Thank you Loay
Hi,
for some reason the script is not working with me I load it from the window panel and the pasted text appears ok in the script’s window but when I press ok some of the text or most of the text is missing and the letters are not tied up together. I’m on a Mac OSX 10.6.2 and use CS4.
What text are you trying? I recorded the demo on OSX 10.6.2 and CS4 so it is not a platform issue.
Ok. Probably was a problem with my font library on the computer. I was using Geeza. Tested it on another computer and it worked nicely with Arabic GE fonts and X fonts. Amazing work Mate. Thank you.
Hi:
I have a question about this script…
Is it possible to make the text flow on a path, or just straight movement. and is it possible to apply all the text effects on it
thanks a lot in advanced
Yes, the script creates a normal AE text layer that you can do anything you want with including putting it on a path and applying text effects to it.
Thanks a lot for your reply Lloyd.
As noted in the comment below, text effects that rely on direction such as the typewriter effect will not work since the flow is reversed in Arabic.
that a wonderful thing when we find solutions for problems of writing, Baraka allahu feik
i bought the arabic script. the TYPEWRITER effect will not work the way i expected with this script. the text will run in from right to left. so i tried all changes with the text animator. the type will run from left to right but only from down to up. so is there a solution to let the typewriter work from right to left AND from the top to the bottom? any help would be fine. thx
Thank you for the explanation. I am working on it.
Please check out the Typewriter-RTL animation preset just added to the post above.
It works,
Thank you Lloyd
thanx LOT
very helpful and time saver thank you Mr Salah
Hany from egypt
thx a lot very useful
my greeting from morocco
Thanks, very nice. the only issue I am having that would be a time saver is, if I paste text I can not organize it by using the enter key to seperate text into multiple lines, I am having to do it line by line, is there a way around it, also can this script be applied to Premiere Pro? Thanks
Use Ctrl + Enter for new line
thank you for this gift my Brother Salah
but after Tried the script .. it is not conformity with the seventh edition which I use it
please any solution for this problem.
thanks,
Esselamu Alejkum! and Hi.
Where I can find plugin taypwriter rtl for AE,please.
Thank you!
https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=680684&cl=51349&ejc=2&amount=2
Alla ya3tik el 3afie,
But the script is not working with me at CS4 on windows
How to proceed
Thanks
thank you very much
the script is working 100% with AE CS4 on windows vista
thnx again mister salah
@esader
copy the script and paste into the folder script in after effects
Hi my Brother I’m from Europe i couldn’t pay 2 $ for preset
but i need it for my music clip , can i pay in in another way
thnks for your great work
thanks for this fantastic script
Does this work is cs5??
Yes
I checked the page from where i download the script
i need help how i download the script
http://aescripts.com/faq/how-to-download-scripts/
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great job, where do get this arabic script for ae….do you have a link?
To download the script you need to add it to the cart and checkout.
hi,
thanks a lot for the script! really useful tool. but there seems to be a problem when working with multi-line textfields: when typing a (multi-line) sentence, the punctuation mark is in the first line. is manually switching all of the lines the only way to get around this..?
thanks in advance,
-stephan
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thanks a lot and god bless you
I downloaded it and it won’t work for Windows AE cs4
How can i install the preset or plugin??
Scripts is something different from presets or plug-ins.
To install it check this out
http://aescripts.com/faq/how-to-install-and-run-scripts/
I can’t open the Arabic Text Wibndow… I have a text in a doc format, and need copy it and paste in After Effects, but when i try to paste in AE, text is reversed…
I’m looking for this Arabic text Window but i can’t found it.
Could you help me please?.
I’m in AE CS4 and MAC 10.6.3
Many Thanks
You have to download the script and place it in UI scripts folder in AE installation folder, when you did that you can access it from window menu under name ArabicText.jsx
http://aescripts.com/faq/how-to-install-and-run-scripts/
Hi really u r great , i really like this script
its helful
Go Ahead
thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks alot ,
^_^
awesome script. Is it possible in the future to have the script to apply to existing text layers of arabic and to convert more than 1 selected text layer?
thnx alot
Hello,
I just bought your script, but the file I was lead to download bears the ffx extension, not the jsx as in the tutorial. Please help me run this.
PS I apologize if my question is noobish
Thanks
I just want to not that I did install it in the presets folder, applied it to text the way you did in the tutorial, but the text is still reversed and letters not joined.
Thanks
Alright, I managed. Sorry for the disturbance, and thanks for an awesome script!!
May God keep you
May God deep you
you are a genius! thank you so much! this really is a time saver!
Thanks a lot for your efforts. You really did a great job.
I have a small question regarding Arabic fonts support. Are all true type Arabic fonts supported ?
How can i know that font is supported or not ? are there anyway to know this other than trying the font ?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Just bought Typewriter-RTL and this does not work in CS3 which is all my work has got? is there a workaround?? otherwise I waisted my money. It says it’s CS3 compatible?
Thanks
It works just fine in CS3, what issue are you experiencing? The more info you give us the more likely we will be able to help you.
Does Typewriter-RTL not work with CS3????
Have you got a version of Typewriter-RTL that works in CS3?
It’s got a tag saying it is compatible at the top. I’ve got a tight deadline and thought
This looked like a great solution. My work mac’s only have CS3
Please respond
Thanks
thank you for this useful script , but i have problem with multi line texts , can you help me ?
Use Ctrl+Enter to break lines
It’s a great script. Thank you. I tried Ctrl + Entre to break the line but it didn’t work. Thank you for the help.
How are you entering the text? Make sure that it is plain text and not formatted text. Microsoft Word for example uses formatted text. Try using Notepad or another plain text editor to paste the text from. You can also enter the text directly and use Ctrl-Enter to get a new line.
first of thanx for the usefull script, I have installed the script and when I try to run it, it gives me the folowing error.. UNABLE TO Execute script at line 411 to many closing braces
seeking for your help
Just remove the last closing bracket }
I use After Effects CS4 & CS5 but the script does not appear in AE and when I try to run it by double click on it I get the following error message :
“After Effects error: can’t import file “TypeWriter-RTL.ffx”:Unsupported filetype or extention.
(0::1)”
Any help please!
You downloaded the TypeWriter-RTL preset, Not Arabictext Script.
check this link
http://aescripts.com/faq/how-to-download-scripts/
ooooooooooooooh nooooo
but i did pay for that script!
first i want to say sorry for bothering you
second you are awesome man.
thanks .
Thank you for such a great tool
Thank you for this script. The only problem I find is that it does not work when you have RTL and LTR in the same paragraph. That may seem an unreasonable expectation, but consider trying to present Qur’anic verses. I’d like to use Arabic numerals (the true ones, not ???? but 1234) between the verses. It flips between RTL and LTR and messes it all up.
I think i fixed that issue in version 2. The text appears as you see it in the text box, if not mail me text sample.
I want to write to a file in Lafter Effect cs5
Maybe later version
I am trying to write a persian text in After Effects CS5,when ever I hold the Ctrl key to write a word it appears in the text box correct but it’s broken in letters.
I need the script only for persian language.
SystemInformations:
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bite
Adobe CS5 and CS5.5
So please help me
Can you email me the exact word?
yes
Shift key NOT CTRL
Hi there,
which arabic typo are supported by your script?
Greetings