ADOBE READER 8
User Guide
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In Mac OS, application and system support for Asian text is automatic.
In Windows, you may be able to view and print files that contain Asian languages without having the necessary Asian
language support installed on your system. If you try to open a PDF file for which language support is required, you
are automatically prompted to install the required fonts.
Central and Eastern European-language PDFs
You can work with Adobe PDF files that contain Cyrillic text (including Bulgarian and Russian), Central European
text, and Eastern European text (including Czech, Hungarian, and Polish) if the fonts are embedded in the PDF files.
If the fonts are embedded, you can view and print the files on any system. Fonts do not need to be embedded to use
the Search feature.
Note:
If you open a PDF file in which form fields or text boxes contain these languages but the fonts are not embedded
and are not installed on your system, choosing Help > Check For Updates Now automatically prompts you to download
and install the necessary fonts.
Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese PDFs
Reader supports the entry and display of Thai and Vietnamese text. On Windows only, Reader also supports Arabic
and Hebrew. By default, Right-To-Left Language Options is enabled under Arabic and Hebrew regional settings (on
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 signa-
tures, and creating text box markups.
Enable Right-To-Left Language Options is enabled by default under Arabic and Hebrew regional settings.
1
Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Reader > Preferences (Mac OS).
2
Under Categories, select International.
3
Select Enable Right-To-Left Language Options.
Summary of Contents for READER 8
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