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

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Oct 13, 2024 Oct 13, 2024

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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.

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Let me know your valuable suggestion

 

Regards,

Alam

 

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Oct 14, 2024 Oct 14, 2024

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Hi

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

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Oct 14, 2024 Oct 14, 2024

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

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Oct 14, 2024 Oct 14, 2024

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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.

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hello

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

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Everything.

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