What is Tasmeem ?
Tasmeem™ 4 is a set of Arabic enhancements for Adobe InDesign, Middle Eastern version for Arabic users.

Tasmeem turns InDesign, Middle Eastern version into the ultimate typesetting and design tool for Arabic.

Tasmeem allows designers to show the true beauty of Arabic script, while opening up new creative possibilities and affording new levels of productivity for advertisements, front pages, greeting and business cards.
Tasmeem also gives publishing professionals the tools to create sophisticated Arabic literary and academic books, as well as shape prose, poetry, create rings and catchwords on a large number of pages.

Automatic installation: a time limited edition of Tasmeem is automatically installed in Adobe InDesign CS4, Middle Eastern Version. Discover the new Tasmeem high-quality fonts *, which have been developed to fit expectations from both modern and calligraphic designers.

Why Tasmeem?

Arabic typography has been a great challenge for the printing and publishing industry. Because it is composed of complex and shifting letters, typesetting technology based on letter analysis could not render the richness of the script. It is for this reason that Winsoft has developed Tasmeem by analyzing individual pen strokes and creating a clear and limited set of rules. Tasmeem is a true breakthrough in Arabic typography as it allows InDesign users to fully express the enormous variability of Arabic letters.
Tasmeem returns to the sources of the Arabic script traditions, providing today’s generation of high-tech designers with greater freedom and offering them a real Arabic-friendly design environment.

The ingenious interface and set of Arabic-related features are ideal to create richer, more complex Arabic typography. Tasmeem lets you work better and faster than ever!

Tasmeem operates inside the Middle Eastern Edition of Adobe InDesign CS4.

It adds calligraphic variety and typographic accuracy without compromising any InDesign functionality, including its unicode compliance. For example, text remains searchable and interchangeable.

Control word spacing between a word and word segment

With Arabic spacing words become a parameter; even within words the kerning and tracking of complete connected letter groups can be managed.

Dozens of alternative forms generated for each word

Word shaping provides point-and-click control over all calligraphic and typographic features, per letter and per word. Tasmeem’s word shaper provides a truly innovative artistic and typographic perspective to enhance the legibility and impact of written communication in Arabic.

Tasmeem provides a virtual palette that enables the typesetter to handle the calligraphic dimension of Arabic without interfering with the searchable plain Unicode text.

     

Personalized font configuration

Tasmeem introduces a totally new approach to design: personalized font configuration. Text shaping covers the same calligraphic parameters as word shaping, but in a more generic manner. Text shaping is designed to handle letter variation for large amounts of text.

 In Tasmeem, in addition to the given text shaping presets, you can also edit your own style and apply it wherever you want.

The Position Tuner feature is used to move diacritrics, dot, mimicry or segments of word on the text, using the mouse.
This feature can also be used to color a segment of word.

After selecting the segment, select the Position Tuner tool in InDesign toolbar, then drag and drop the segment to the desired position.

The Position Tuner palette gives the possibility to change the position of various items at a time (dots, marks, high marks and low marks).

Simple selection and transformation of word components

Selection helper is a simple and effective tool for editing complex text. By presenting each letter separately, selection and transformation is made extremely easy.

A professional series of ring options and tools for optimum flexibility

The Rings tool is an impressive feature that enables designers to reproduce the ornamental rings around traditional verse numbers. It turns Unicode’s “end of ayah” mark into a versatile ornament.

Automatically creates catchwords to anticipate the first word of the following page

A catchword in a book is the word at the bottom right hand side of the last line of a page, which repeats the first word of the following page.

It is used to avoid the interruption of the Quran text reading, by anticipating what will be read on the next page, while the page is turning.

 

 

Avicenna Kitab as Sifa in Tasmeem Publisher Edition

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System Requirements:
Windows
Adobe InDesign CS4, Middle Eastern Version
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
Adobe InDesign CS4, Middle Eastern Version
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

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