How to Support Urdu and Arabic Typography in Non-ME Version of InDesign

[alam_84]

HI All,

I need to support urdu/arabic/persian typegraphy features in the non middle eastern version of InDesign.

I knew that by using 'Adobe world Ready Paragraph composer', right justification and using fonts like - Noto_Nastaliq_Urdu, Jameel Noori Nastaleeq Kasheeda, Jameel Noori Nastaleeq Regular etc.

Do I need to add my own custom composer to support it or what approach I need to choose.

as I could not see kashida in character panel flyout menu and panel which can be seen in middle eastern version.

Let me know your valuable suggestion

Regards,

Alam

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[alam_84]

I also went through documentation mentioned in
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html#:~:text=Story%20direction-,Automatic%20Kas...

[sak95456465]

Hi

only way is reinstall indesign with selecting english یدعم العربیه to add these features

[alam_84]

You mean I need to install InDesign ME version for these features non ME version does not support right?

[Peter Kahrel]

The answer to your question is No, in order to set the composer you needn't reinstall InDesign. The World composers are needed for other languages than the Middle-Eastern ones as well, such as the South-East Asian languages. And it works fine for English too.

To get access to ME features there's no need to reinstall InDesign, a simple tweak exposes the ME menus:

https://github.com/jackweekes/InDesign-Feature-Set-Locale-Switcher

Furthermore, the ME (and Japanese) features are exposed to scripting, so you could even use the standard non-ME InDesign and use some scripts to set Right-to-Left features. Soe of these scripts are simple one-liners. Look around on the web for them.

[sak95456465]

hello

It enables rtl bindng and rtl story and arabic index? everything?

[Peter Kahrel]

Everything.