TextReverser

Reverses the direction of selected text layers. Useful for RightToLeft language input.

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TextReverser

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This script reverses the direction of selected text layers. This is a common task required when entering or copying and pasting RightToLeft (RTL) languages.

This script also works in Adobe Photoshop (Watch demo video for install instructions). To run it in Photoshop install the script in the Scripts folder which is located inside the Presets folder in the Photoshop app folder.

For Arabic text please use the ArabicText script

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:

Hebrew users: Check out this tutorial from Eran Stern on an alternative way to enter hebrew into After Effects.

Last updated February 19th, 2010
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Tags: AE7, CS3, CS4, Direction, Hebrew, Photoshop, RightToLeft, Text

Lloyd Alvarez

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I am a freelance art director and After Effects artist in New York City. I aim to provide high quality scripts that provide clever solutions for After Effects workflows.

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rich (Reply to this comment)
February 3, 2010

How does it handle intermediate characters?
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  March 29, 2010
  
  For Arabic text you should use the ArabicText script
Andre Friedman (Reply to this comment)
February 19, 2010

Thnx from all hebrew speaking dudes!!!
rich (Reply to this comment)
February 24, 2010

I tried out some Arabic copied from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic:
لا أَتَكَلَّمُ الْعَرَبيَّةَ

The script didn’t work on the medial letters. The odd thing is that the AE layer name keeps the letters intact, but the Comp panel breaks up the cursive into individual letters.
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  February 24, 2010
  
  Yes, I am looking into it although it seems to be an AE problem as I am able to display the text correctly in an alert box but then it shows up incorrectly in the comp. Seems to only affect Arabic though, Hebrew seems to work fine.
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  March 29, 2010
  
  We published a new script to correctly handle medial letters in Arabic text: http://aescripts.com/arabictext/
Jake (Reply to this comment)
May 31, 2010

Works fine for me in CS5.

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