Typing Farsi in After Effects

[Brian Lynn]

Try typing them up in Illustrator and importing?

[Brian Lynn]

might need to find a better font then… or localize your computer for Farsi? Can you post a pic of the trouble you’re talking about?

[Andrew Johnston]

Just Tried it.

I can’t type Farsi in Illustrator any better than I can in After Effects.
🙁

[Andrew Johnston]

Localize my computer for farsi? That sounds like the path I need to take.

Is it an easy switch back and forth between localizing for Farsi and English? Maybe I can localize my farsi, type what i need to type, then localize back to English? Does it work that way?

I can’t post a picture right now, maybe later…. but seriously… There really isn’t anything to take a picture of. Because there is just nothing there…

Let me try and explain a little better…

I downloaded maybe a dozen Farsi Fonts…

After Effects reads them okay… I can type with them… but take a look at this website….

https://radiozamaaneh.org/tmp/edi/

Try typing something… You’ll notice that when you do a certain combination of letters they combine to make a different kind of symbol.. This is the way typing in farsi works. (or so I’ve gathering through my research)

The problem is that when i type with my farsi fonts in AE i get the separate symbols and they don’t combine like they should for farsi… Understandably so… because all an installed font is a collection of characters…

I need to find a way to get this to work though.

Now here me out on one last thing…

That website I sent you… I tried copying and pasting what it give me into AE… No Luck… BUT… I paste the SAME THING into a sticky on my mac and it WORKS!!!

WHat the ehck do you make of that???

[Brian Lynn]

if sticky supports it then localizing probably won’t help. I’m guessing a bug?

There is ways around this though… the most basic would be get the text you need into the sticky with a huge size, screen shot, photoshop out the background and use the text that way, as an image… not the most fun but it would work if you have to get this done immediately… wish I could be more help!

[Brian Lynn]

Have you tried any other word processor? Sticky might not be your best option for a capture… I’ve never used a sticky personally so I’m not sure what control you get!

[Andrew Johnston]

One step ahead of you, thats the process i just jumped into.

But if anyone has a better solution please please help.

And Sticky can get crazy big so I’m good for now

[Bohdan Stehlik]

Hello Andrew,

a week ago I had the same problem. I needed to do a work with Thai writings and the only app on my mac correctly recognizing the text was, just like for you, TextEdit.
So here’s the solution I used (even if it gets a little cumbersome when working with a lot of text!) :

– copy paste to TextEdit
– scale the text up to a maximum
– make a screen capture, or better a portion of it
– import the .png into Illustrator and vecorize it using LiveTrace

There you have a usible image of your text. But as I said, I just needed little snippets of text, and even then it was taking a lot of time to do it….

[John Ghadimi]

Hi Andrew;

I’m guessing you’re working on a mac. I recall helping my dad set up his PC to be able to switch between farsi and english, so he could actually compose in farsi “properly”. I never looked into a similar solution for the mac. I’m sure it exists, but not as widely used. There are after effects users in Iran after all, but most likely, they are all on a PC 🙂

J.

[Andrew Johnston]

Thanks guys… WHat I ended up doing was taking a screen capture on a Green Sticky (mac) then keyed out the green.

Good call on Vectorized it through illustrator, I’ll do that next time.

ANd for future reference to anyone that ever needs to do this on mac… You can actually set up your mac to type farsi (system preferences) … and it will work in all apple products…. FCP, MOTION, DVD STUDIO…. but none of the adobe products.

To get adobe to type farsi just doesn’t exist.