typing in Arabic (Mac)

[hiccup]

that is a dtp package, it replaces Indesign rather than working with it.

I'm pretty sure it works as a kind of plug-in

which allows you to use Arabic in the world's leading design applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Macromedia Flash™, CorelDraw™ or any other image-editing program on the Windows platform.

She's off today, but I'll ask her about it when I see her.

EDIT: think it's Windows only though, so maybe dennisr's suggestion might be better

 

[Aldebaran]

is 'stroke order' as important in arabic as japanese?

The importance of kanji stroke order - on which should be emphasized already when starting with hiragana and katekana - is not comparable to the various rules and techniques applied in Arabic caligraphy. (Arabic is an alphabetic language.)

salaam.

 

[rutabowa]

I'm pretty sure it works as a kind of plug-in



She's off today, but I'll ask her about it when I see her.

EDIT: think it's Windows only though, so maybe dennisr's suggestion might be better

not convinced, none of the applications in that quote are dtp packages they're just image programmes, and if it did work as a plugin to Quark or Indesign it would defnitely make a big point of it!! but let me know what they say, thank yuo.

 

[dennisr]

the problem is that Indesign just doesn't support arabic, it doesn't do the rigth to left thing so all the words would look wrong.

Sorry, just checked the ArabicXT site - it works as a plug-in in Indesign (as it does for Quark). If you need font just ask

Just to add: I have a version open in front of me used within Quark (just tried the demo version) - should be the same for Indesign - from here: http://www.arabicxt.com/

 

[Aldebaran]

You could try-out Indesign ME

http://www.fontworld.com/me/indesignme.html

salaam.

 

[rutabowa]

Sorry, just checked the ArabicXT site - it works as a plug-in in Indesign (as it does for Quark). If you need font just ask

ah that is interesting, i can't seem to find the Indesign one on the site though!! are you sure, it seems to be made by Quark that plugin.

 

[rutabowa]

You could try-out Indesign ME

http://www.fontworld.com/me/indesignme.html

salaam.

that woudl certainly work i don't reckon they'd want to spend like £1,400 just to solve this though!

 

[hiccup]

Hmmm. I still think if the programme I linked to will do text into Illustrator, it'll do it into InDesign. I'll ask her on Monday though.

From what I remember, she gets sent Arabic text in Word documents, then she runs it through that program, which kind of flips it round, and then she can paste it into Illustrator and treat it as any other text. I think. It's been a while since I was involved in that stuff.

 

[dennisr]

ah that is interesting, i can't seem to find the Indesign one on the site though!! are you sure, it seems to be made by Quark that plugin.

you are right - i think my friend is messing with me. IndesignME looks like the only practical option

Having said that i layout a lot of CE, Cyrillic and mixed Chinese/English docs in a version of Quark passport - no plug ins required just opentype fonts and unicode supporting Quark 7

 

[rutabowa]

you are right - i think my friend is messing with me. IndesignME looks like the only practical option

Having said that i layout a lot of CE, Cyrillic and mixed Chinese/English docs in a version of Quark passport - no plug ins required just opentype fonts and unicode supporting Quark 7

yep i think it's the right-=left thing that's the problem, we do korean, cyrillic, chinese, japanese, all those mixed with english, with not too many problems (well occasionally Word fucks things up) w/ opentype fonts, but Arabic is another matter. thank you for having a look though.

 

[dennisr]

thank you for having a look though.

no problem - looking for 'evaluation' copies now from friend (i wouldnt want to raise your hopes to much though...)

added: well blow me sideways in a light wind - if there isn't a test version there for downloading on lovely demonoid...