I am looking at using mulitple languages in one document. I have downloaded adobe language packets, while I am not able to find them. I am using InDesign 2022.
Many languages you can use just simply by assigning language in paragraph or character style. If you are using languages that use Left to right you will need to use "World Ready Paragraph composer". There are some features that you can only get in regional versions such as ME has special features for arabic and persian. (Assigning a laguage helps to get correct style typographic quotes, hyphenation and spelling correction.) What languages is it that you are wanting to incorporate?
Thank you for responding so fast, I am looking at English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and Bengali. Once I download the packet do I need to intall it somehow for it to show up? I looked at the paragraph and character style and none of them showed up.
What operating system are you using? On the Mac the application follows the OS language if you have several languge versions of your software. I do not have enough experience with east asian scripts to know how to guide you in those, but hope that there will be others in the fourms with these skills. Please also look at: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/arabic-hebrew.html
I am using windows 11. Once I enabled world ready paragraph and single line composer, I found under advanced view it enabled all of the languages. The ones that I am missing is Chinese. which sounds like I will need the ME-version for that.
You will have to install additional the ME-Version, Japanese-Chinese-Korean Version and the Indic Version.
In my experience only the Western and 1 additional version on the same computer will work well. More versions will cause crashes. If you have several computers install on each Western+additional version. Opening a document with languages which are not installed will not cause damage, you cannot edit those languages in full functionality.
For non-western languages you will need a World Ready Composer, but don't use it for western languages as it will slow down InDesign.
When it's possible, separating the languages into individual INDD documents and then integrating them via the Book feature can greatly simplify a lot of text management and formatting issues.
That may not be possible; I have typeset documents with four or five languages and two or three alphabets per page. It's... fun.
how does the book feature work? I have gotten all of the languages in one document except chinese, which may need to be a seperate document. I am working on a decal for my profession. I am an industrial designer, and culture is a huge part of that. so I trying to creat an inclusive decal that most of the people that I will interact with would understand.
Ah, if you're just doing one page/panel with variant elements, you might want to use the layers feature instead. Works the same as in Photoshop, Illustrator and most CAD tools. Build the basic elements on the page, then use a layer for each language. That would be better than completely different pages, I think.
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