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World-​​ready Composer

Adobe CS4 and CS5 officially doesn't support Arabic. Instead, there is a separate ME version (Middle Eastern) which supports left-to-right languages.

This means that Adobe CS4 and CS5 will only show Arabic isolated glyphs, which don't connect as they should.


However, there is a work-around to activate Arabic support in CS4 and CS5, as it is described here:

http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/01/adobe-world-ready-composer http://indesigning.net/right-to-left-arabic-hebrew-hindi-in-indesign-cs4-none-me

These templates and scripts enable World-​​ready Composer, allowing to use Arabic in CS4 and CS5.

Alternatively, you could download the following InDesign CS5 document which already includes stylesheets for Thuraya and Fedra Arabic.

Adobe Arabic World-​​Ready Composer
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