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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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  • 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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