Comments on: A Modern Day Chanukah Miracle. Right to Left Language Features Come to Life in InDesign CS4!

By: Dilshad

Dilshad — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:39:17 +0000

Oops, sorry. CS5 does not have a default style sheet. The style sheet comes in when you activate the script posted about earlier.

By: Dilshad

Dilshad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:50:23 +0000

It looks like Indesign CS5 (none ME) for Mac has a solution for this. In the Paragraph Styles window there is a style sheet called Arabic. If you copy and paste from a website or translation program like Babylon and apply this style sheet to the text box before you paste it seems to work for Arabic text. It even keeps the ligatures.

I’m so chuffed, I’ve spent all day trying to figure this out. Even tried the free scripts offered here but they did not keep the ligatures.

Thanks for a great site. Were it not for all this feedback I would not have figured it out.

By: Harbs

Harbs — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:44:05 +0000

I just checked Amharic, and it appears to work correctly in InDesign, as long as you use a unicode font. (I don’t speak it or read it, so take that with a grain of salt.)

Amharic, Oromifa and Tigrigna all use the same unicode range.

Here’s a website which has links for free Amharic/ Tigrigna/ Oromifa fonts: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/amharic.htm

As far as Somali goes, it looks like there’s more than one way of writing it! http://www.omniglot.com/writing/somali.htm

(Again, I know next to nothing about these languages…)

By: Jongware

Jongware — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:39:06 +0000

Amharic and Tigrigna are mentioned by name on http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode-more.html.

Actually, it’s not a question of “what languages” are supported. Unicode only defines the actual characters. If all of the characters in these languages have Unicodes assigned to them, the languages are supported in full. Check the Unicode Consortium pages to find out.

By: vraman

vraman — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:33:59 +0000

I’m writing to find out if we could do typesetting for Ethiopia languages using InDesign ME.

The languages I needed are:
- Amharic
- Oromifa
- Somali
- Tigrigna

Does InDesign support? Are there unicodes for the above?

Any input will be of great help.

By: Rehan

Rehan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:38:30 +0000

@George

Thanks for the link, it’s working with CS4 for Arabic text, great help.

Thanks and regards,
Rehan ul Haque

By: George Coghill

George Coghill — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:36 +0000

Here’s a free script that may or may not be a solution: http://indesigning.net/right-to-left-arabic-hebrew-hindi-in-indesign-cs4-none-me

(I hit “Cancel” on the login sheet a couple of times and it let me in to the page.)

By: Viren

Viren — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:22 +0000

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By: Not Disclosed

Not Disclosed — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:25:10 +0000

We are a small company who needs a software to support Spelling , Hyphenation and Typing in Hindi Language in InDesign. Is there any recommendation ?

Sorry if I am posting this on a wrong blog, It looks like a lot of big shots are contributing to this blog

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:47:20 +0000

All,

IndicPlus for InDesign CS4 is now available for a special introductory price of 25 USD.

Apart from standard World Ready Features, it supports Additonal Languages for Page, Paragraph, Footnote and Variable Numbering.

Feature list in a Nutshell

1. Ability to use Digits in Arabic, Hindi, Bengali etc..
2. Use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification
3. Special Open Type Features required for Ligatures
4. Set vowels/diacritics positioning
5. Ability to Justify text in three possible ways to get the desired results (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)
6. Functionality to “Insert Special Character” Geresh, Gershayim, Magaf, Kashida and Joiner
7. Support for Additional Languages for page, paragraph and footnote numbering

- Amit