PL supports Indian languages - but not natively!

[Vivi_Ram]

I found something quite interesting. PL supports Indian languages, when I copy/paste from a text editor and they come in as text layer, too! Which is brilliant and something even Affinity and Xara cannot do. So my guess is that the foundations of a great text engine are already there in PhotoLine and is already much deeper than I thought it was. The strangest thing is, if I save as pdf and import into PL, it does not work. How strange! Have a look.

P.S: Even stranger, I can use Google keyboard to type directly into PL and it correctly renders the glyph, but as soon as I add a space, it goes wrong. It is fascinating. Affinity/Xara cannot even render the glyphs correctly. That means, I suspect PL's text engine just needs polishing and refinement. It's already very good!

This right here is a huge opportunity @Martin and @Gerhard: You have literally hundreds of thousands of people cursing Affinity for not supporting Indian languages/Right-to-left scripts. And they'd instantly jump on board. I myself have to go to Scribus for this! I realise it is incredibly hard, time-consuming and complex to implement language support. MS/Adobe took years to finally do it. Just a thought. Not suggesting you should do it.

Incidentally, the only other German software house that provides full language support is Viva Designer. But it is too complex for me.