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Explore more possibilities in Adobe® InDesign® CS4 with enhanced and
advanced features for Middle Eastern users including spell checking,
bi-directional text flow, typographic controls (kashidas, ligature,
diacritics...) and advanced importing and exporting options.
Adobe InDesign CS4 software breaks down the barriers between online
and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive
content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and
interactive PDF documents.
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media.
Typographical Control:
Compose beautiful typography and
easily create Middle Eastern and multilingual documents in Adobe
InDesign CS4. Get the most of InDesign CS4 with features to type and
layout Middle Eastern text, including the possibility to:
- choose digits (Arabic, Farsi or
Hindi),
- use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification,
- use ligatures,
- position vowels/diacritics,
- choose the justification (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)


Bi-directional text flow:
Explore more layout possibilities
in Adobe InDesign CS4 with the possibility to use Middle Eastern
(written from right to left) and/or Roman text (written from left to
right) within the same paragraph, character, story and table. Easily
mix Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right words, paragraphs and stories
within a same document.
Easily create a multilingual or
Middle Eastern document using the reverse layout feature and convert
a Left to Right document (Roman) to a Right to Left one (Middle
Eastern) or vice versa.
Find/Change feature:
Easily search and replace
specific occurrences of Middle Eastern text (characters, words,
groups of words, or text formatted a certain way) in Adobe
InDesign CS4.
Dictionary and spell
checking:
Control your text in Adobe
InDesign CS4 with a dictionary for Middle Eastern and spell check
your Arabic text to avoid typos with a choice of rules, such as
Strict Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
Depending on your system
capabilities, control your text in Adobe InCopy CS4 with a
dictionary and hyphenation module for Hebrew.

Font support:
Get linguistic support for
Middle Eastern languages in InDesign CS4 along with the support
of a wide array of Unicode fonts including most fonts shipped
with the OS as well as a large number of third party fonts
widely used by graphic designers in the Middle Eastern regions.
Multilingual book file
publishing:
Prepare long documents in
Adobe InDesign CS4 for multilingual or Middle Eastern
publishing, including generating tables of contents and indexes
in multiple languages with the options adapted to the language
you are dealing with (sorting, titles, cross-references).
Importing and Exporting
options:
Open and convert QuarkXPress
files, even using Arabic XT, Arabic Phonyx, Hebrew QXPressWay
fontsretaining the layout and content in Adobe InDesign CS4.
InDesign also comes with more
than 50 import/export filters enabling you to place many kinds
of images and Roman texts.

System
Requirements:
Windows
1.5GHz or faster processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3
recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or
Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and
Windows Vista)
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1.8GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free
space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based
storage devices)
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Macintosh
PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free
space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that
uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services