Arabic And English Print: Bilingual Proof Checks

Right alignment does not by itself establish correct right-to-left text direction. Keep each paragraph's language and direction appropriate to its content. Telephone numbers, dates, email addresses and product codes need particular attention inside Arabic text. Do not reverse character order manually to imitate the expected appearance.

Choose fonts that support the required Arabic characters and shaping in the actual application. Compare the editable source and exported PDF for joined letters, missing glyphs, line breaks and punctuation. Confirm permitted embedding and the printer's font workflow. A font substitution can change both wording appearance and pagination.

Have the reviewer check spelling, translation, direction, numbers and context, while the production approver checks size, margins and finishing. Keep the final PDF filename and approval date. If text changes afterwards, recheck the affected layout and references before printing; do not assume prior approval transfers to a new version.

Specimen v1 can contain an Arabic heading such as موعد الاجتماع, an English heading Meeting time, a time such as 10:30, a reference AB-123 and parentheses. Place Arabic and English in separate direction-aware paragraphs where appropriate. This is a layout exercise, not an approved translation of a customer document.

Compare the editable source and exported PDF side by side: connected Arabic letters, punctuation placement, the order of AB-123, numerals, table-cell direction and line wrapping. Alignment moves a paragraph on the page; it does not by itself establish the correct reading direction.

Ask a qualified bilingual reader to confirm wording, names, dates, numerical values and sequence, not only whether the page looks balanced. Inspect headers, footers, tables and mixed-language labels as well as body text.

Record the exact filename and revision approved. No native Office export or qualified linguistic approval was performed for this specimen; your final file still needs both layout inspection and appropriate language review.