The only real solutions for multilingual typesetting are still the ME edition and World Tools. Actual typesetting in Arabic - specifying numerals, hanging indents, control of diacriticals, kashidas, et cetera - would be pretty much impossible with scripting alone, unless you are expert in both Arabic typesetting and in InDesign scripting. Frankly, using the scripts won't do much for you beyond just getting the text to compose with RTL flow. The WRC exposed by that script will let you do Indic scripts which flow LTR.Īs usual, the options boil down to: Buying the ME edition, buying World Tools, or using scripts. The script that Manish points out does expose the World-Ready Composer, but none of the stuff that is totally critical for RTL work (paragraph direction, character direction, digits, etc.) is available to users of the non-ME Creative Suite. ![]() ![]() Nope - CS6 does not expose the RTL text manipulation tools.
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