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Pasting Arabic text into InDesign

I'm creating a multi-language document and am trying to figure out what I need to install in InDesign to be able to paste Arabic text from an e-mail or a Word doc into an InDesign document that also has English and Spanish text.

Thanks for your help!

Sigurdur Armannsson

You need a plug in for this. Check this one out. We have been using it for the last month and it really is doing what we needed.

http://metadesignsolutions.com/products/indicplus.php

Pimpernel777

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Thanks sigurarm!

I spoke with my boss and he wants to try to do it without another software program or plug-in. Just a font if needed. He's looking at:

1) Copying text from a Word document or Google translate

2) Pasting it into InDesign and applying an Arabic font (is there recommended one?)

3) Flipping/mirroring as needed to get it to read right to left

So I'm looking for a workflow that will enable this process to work. Thanks again.

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Sigurdur Armannsson

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Sigurdur Armannsson

An arabic font is not enough. You need the text to write from right to left and in many cases you might need to have latin and arabic text within the same paragraph and that means trouble (which the plug in solves).

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