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I have a PDF in the Arabic language. I've opened it with Poppler/cairo or Okular but I can't figure this out. I know this is so easy but I need help.

So Arabic books are normally from RIGHT to LEFT, so the page numbering is like this physically (ie how it should be):

PAGE 2 | PAGE 1
PAGE 4 | PAGE 3

But no matter what options in Okular or others, it comes out as:

BLANK  | PAGE 1
PAGE 2 | PAGE 3
PAGE 4 | PAGE 5

or...

PAGE 1 | PAGE 2
PAGE 3 | PAGE 4
PAGE 5 | PAGE 6

Can you help me? I'm so lost. Here is a sample PDF: http://www.musily.usi.ch/documents/arabic.pdf

Can anyone figure out how to get dual-view to work? This will help me so much for my studies... Thank you so much!

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    It seems a bug, even with Arabic interface it does not flip pages order (Righ-To-Left). Consider reporting it upstream Okular Menu > Help > Report a bug. Or any program you want to use See askubuntu.com/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug
    – user.dz
    Feb 17, 2014 at 12:53
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    Ok, I sent them a message. Does Ubuntu have any other PDF Tools that may solve this problem? Can anyone advice me?
    – Bran
    Feb 19, 2014 at 0:07
  • Man, I wonder if this is a Ubuntu or OS Problem then. Im not too familiar, but can you do something like export lang=Arabic ; ocular myArabic.pdf ?
    – Bran
    Feb 19, 2014 at 1:18
  • It's an apllication problem. Even though I tried all them, only GUI interface flip (so already translated to Arabic). But the view (or more technically correct canvas) it's like drawing, the application should take care of that.
    – user.dz
    Feb 19, 2014 at 1:28

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  • Actually Acroread works.

    If you can't get it in software center, see https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/otherversions/ . Download .deb package.

    Edit → Preferences → International → Enable Right to Left Language Options (Default can be change too)

  • Qpdfview bug report (fix may be released with qpdfview 0.4.9)

    lp bug#1281870

    From Menu, View → Right To Left
    Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+r
    To add it to toolbar: Edit → Settings → Interface → View Tool Bar: Add rightToLeftMode to comma separated list.

  • Okular bug report (needs more votes)

    kde bug#325650

  • Evince bug report

    gnome bug#724704

  • To test if the viewer may flip page layout too when launch with RTL (RightToLeft) local ie: RTL GUI, (ar_DZ for Algerian Arabic. Or prefer ar.UTF8 as most application translated to single unified Arabic, no difference):

    LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF8 acroread
LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF8 evince
LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF8 qpdfview
LANG=ar_DZ.UTF8 okular
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  • Best answer ever on Askubuntu.com. Thank you SO MUCH for this information. I hope that Okular and Evince get those supports soon. Thank you again SO MUCH, this is why I love ubuntu, because people are so nice and helpful.
    – Bran
    Apr 11, 2014 at 1:07
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    @Bran, :) I hope so for evince/okular. qpdfview released the fix. it is already in the daily build of its developer (many thanks to Adam Reichold) ppa:adamreichold/qpdfview-dailydeb. Even he made an upstream fix for Poppler to get direction property from pdf document. Poppler is used by evince/okular too.
    – user.dz
    Apr 11, 2014 at 13:54

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