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Microsoft Edge pdf Adding text with arabic letters disappear
Hello While I'm studying i noticed there is adding text to the pdf so I tried that and when I use Arabic letters in the text box, The text box jut disappear (if you only use arabic and english lette...
- Hey there, I'm back with an update! Arabic is not currently a supported language in the Add Text feature (sorry for not catching that before asking a bunch of extra questions!)
The team is looking to increase the language support for Add Text and I made sure they knew we have an interest here for Arabic, but no current updates on when the supported languages might change. Sorry I don't have an immediate fix for this!
Hey there LastBurrito! Thanks for reporting this. What version of Edge are you seeing this in? Also, for the example where you partly enter English and partly Arabic, when you click back into the text box does the Arabic text reappear while editing?
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It seems that there is almost a year and the problem still exists. We are working with Ministries of Education (and their thousands of schools) in Middle East where Microsoft is considered the de facto provider for IT solutions. Unfortunately students and teachers cannot edit PDF files in Arabic or even in English (the "add text" button does not appear even with the latest Edge edition). Very bad experience for them, bad reputation for Microsoft and huge problems for us that promoted this solution and we are just in the middle without being able to do anything.
You can contact me directly to give more details on the situation although I imagine that Microsoft Education in Dubai has heard about this first hand.
You can contact me directly to give more details on the situation although I imagine that Microsoft Education in Dubai has heard about this first hand.