Paragraph direction applies to the currently selected text. In the Font tab, you select paragraph direction using the Auto, Left To Right, and Right To Left radio buttons and you select the digit style using the Digits pull-down menus. Form Field Text Properties dialog box-In this dialog box, there are two tabs: Font and Paragraph.Using this button doesn't change the digits already in the text. This button toggles digit style from Arabic-Indic to Western and applies only to form fields with an Arabic-Indic default digit style. To select the digit style of the text you type into a field, use the Arabic-Indic Digits button. For example, to make sure that phone numbers written with Western digits are displayed correctly in paragraphs of right-to-left Arabic text, select the phone numbers and choose Left To Right from the pull-down menu of the Text Direction button. Changing text direction is useful when the default writing direction for text in a paragraph is different for the paragraph's default writing direction or when the text direction cannot be automatically determined. The Right To Left Text option lays out the text according to the right-to-left rules, regardless of paragraph direction.

The Left To Right Text option lays out the text according to left-to-right rules, regardless of paragraph direction. Selecting the Automatic option lays out the text depending on the paragraph's direction and the type of characters used. To change text direction of selected text and not entire paragraphs, use the Text Direction button to display a pull-down menu with three options: Automatic, Left To Right Text, and Right To Left Text. After changing paragraph direction, you can go back and modify the alignment of paragraphs individually. Paragraph alignment automatically changes according to your selection: if paragraphs are left-aligned and you change the paragraph direction to right-to-left, Adobe Reader makes all the paragraphs right-aligned, and vice versa. Clicking this button displays two options: Left To Right Paragraphs and Right To Left Paragraphs, which apply to all paragraphs in the field. To change paragraph direction, use the Paragraph Direction button in the toolbar.

Text Field Properties toolbar-When entering text in a Rich Text field or a Drawing Markup Text Box, you can select paragraph and font direction and digit style from the Text Properties Tool Bar.

The text direction of digital signatures is controlled by the Configure Signature Appearance dialog box available when a signature is applied to the document. The Appearance tab for the Digital Signatures Properties dialog box provides the digits style selection. In the Radio Button Properties and Check Box Properties dialog boxes, the options to select paragraph direction and digit style are not available. In these dialog boxes, you select paragraph direction using radio buttons and you select digit style using pull-down menus.

Appearance tab of the following dialog boxes: Text Field Properties, Combo Box Properties, List Box Properties, and Button Properties, and Digital Signature Properties.

The following user interface elements let you control paragraph direction and digit style: Note: The right-to-left language option is enabled by default under Arabic and Hebrew regional settings. In the Preferences dialog box, select International Categories and select Enable Right-To-Left Language Options.Д®nabling right-to-left language options displays the user interface elements for controlling paragraph direction, digit style, and ligature. To enable right-to-left language options in Adobe Reader:Дў.

Ligature support-available only to Arabic text, optional ligatures will be automatically used if supported in the font.

Digit style-You can select whether to use Western digits or Arabic-Indic digits when typing Arabic text.

Paragraph direction-You can select the paragraph direction to be from right to left, which properly lays out bidirectional text (right-to-left text containing numbers and text in other languages written from left to right).

This version of Adobe Reader contains options for controlling the following aspects of the right-to-left languages Arabic and Hebrew in forms and digital signatures: This version of Adobe Reader supports the entry and display of Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese text. Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese Text

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