pdf in Hebrew

[moria_tager@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

We are building a website with pdf files in Hebrew. We are working with Windows and Office XP and Acrobat Professional 6 to create pdf files from Hebrew word documents. Pdf displays the Hebrew text fine, but when I copy the text from pdf back to word it is displayed backwards. Also when we do a search with the Acrobat search tool or by using Indexing Service there are no results. When we search for a Hebrew word typed backwards, then both searches find it.

I understand that there is a Middle East version of the Acrobat. Would it solve our problem? Where can we get a trial version of it? If not what other options are there?

Thank you for your help.
Moria.

[Fr._Watson@adobeforums.com]

We are building a website with pdf files in Hebrew. We are working with
Windows and Office XP and Acrobat Professional 6 to create pdf files from
Hebrew word documents. Pdf displays the Hebrew text fine, but when I copy
the text from pdf back to word it is displayed backwards.




I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Hebrew is read from right to left?

[remarkble@adobeforums.com]

Yes, Fr Watson is correct. While you can easily prepare Hebrew files from Word to PDF, as you describe, copy-pasting the Hebrew text from PDF to Word or other Middle Eastern (ME) programs must be done with Acrobat-ME software. Otherwise the Hebrew text will be reversed.

Acrobat 6.0-ME is available in standard or professional edition. For extensive editing of PDF, select the PRO-ME package. Enhanced Middle Eastern PDF features include:

FIND Arabic-Hebrew text within PDF, COPY-PASTE Arabic-Hebrew from PDF to your favorite ME software, Save Arabic-Hebrew websites into PDF, Type Arabic-Hebrew within PDF FORMS, etc...

See chart for feature list:
<http://www.arabicdtp.com/arabic/acrobatme.html>

[remarkble@adobeforums.com]

I forgot to mention, while you can open ANY PDF FILE using Acrobat Reader, to handle Arabic-Hebrew "enhanced" PDF files, you will want to use Acrobat "Reader-ME" edition (free at adobe.com) for these enhanced features. I recommend fully embeding the Hebrew fonts into PDF, and make sure fonts have Unicode support.