The XV4 version of Q++Studio supports the native use of Arabic when using any of the supported versions of InDesign.

 

For an overview of the InDesign features for Arabic available in the Middle East and North African edition of this software, see the page here, which covers the following topics:

 

•Adobe World-Ready Composers

•Text direction

•Story direction

•Automatic Kashida insertion

•Ligatures

•Diacritical marks

•Copy-paste from Microsoft Word

•Default fonts

•Legacy font support

•Digit Types

•Hyphenation

•Find and replace

•Glyphs

•Justification Alternates

•Special Middle East characters insertion

•Table direction

•Binding directions

•Right to Left writing preferences

•Page and chapter numbering

•Writing direction in Gallery view and Story Editor

•Diacritical coloring

 

To use Arabic, you need to install the MENA (Middle East and North African languages) edition InDesign. You can access MENA editions of InDesign by temporarily switching the language of your Creative Cloud desktop app to either Hebrew or Arabic, as described here.

 

See also: Working with Arabic Text in QuarkXPress and Working with Hebrew Text in InDesign.

 

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Topic 185360, last updated on 15-Aug-2022