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I've never worked with the ME version, but I bet you can find something like “Page Binding Side” in Document Setup. The Scripting guide shows this value can be either “Bound on the left” or “Bound on the right”, which nicely corresponds to a book that is read front-to-back or … (oh wait) I mean right-to-left (what you are most likely used to) or left-to-right (for Hebrew, Arabic, and probably a couple of other scripts).

(Correction) Um, it depends on the wording :)

If you consider how the pages turn while reading, an English book is “right to left'. But on second thought, maybe this can be best described as in which direction you read: left to right for English, right to left for Farsi.

.. That “oh wait” is of course because books in Farsi are also read front-to-back. It's just that the front is on the other side, the back side (which is then, of course, the front side).

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