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Last updated 10/11/2011
Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese language PDFs
Acrobat supports the entry and display of Thai and Vietnamese text. In Windows only, Arabic and Hebrew are also
supported. By default, Right-To-Left Language Options is enabled under Arabic and Hebrew regional settings (in
Windows).
Enable right-to-left languages
Enabling right-to-left language options displays the user interface elements for controlling paragraph direction, digit
style, and ligature. When this option is selected, you can specify the writing direction (left-to-right or right-to-left) and
type of digits (Western or Arabic-Indic) used for creating and filling out certain form fields, adding digital signatures,
and creating text box markups.
Enable Right-To-Left Language Options is enabled by default under Arabic and Hebrew regional settings.
1 In the Preferences dialog box under Categories, select International.
2 Select Enable Right-To-Left Language Options.
Acrobat in Mac OS
Generally, Acrobat works the same for Windows and Mac OS. Some exceptions are noted throughout Help. In
addition, be aware of the following differences:
Common keyboard actions and functions
Open the Preferences dialog box
To open the Preferences dialog box in Mac OS, choose Acrobat > Preferences.
Expand a nested list
Items such as bookmarks sometimes appear in nested lists that can be expanded or collapsed. To expand a list in Mac
OS, click the right-pointing triangle to the left of the icon. Click the down-pointing triangle to collapse the list. To
expand or collapse all items in a multilevel list, Option-click the triangle.
Windows Mac OS
Right-click Control-click
Alt Option
Ctrl+[character] Command+[character]
Ctrl-click Option-click
Ctrl-drag Option-drag
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