Inpage Urdu 2009 Professional rev 3.0.5
Software Detail
InPage is a word processor and page layout software for
languages such as Urdu, Persian, Pashto and Arabic under Windows and Mac which
was first developed in 1994. It is primarily used for creating pages in the
language of Urdu, using the Nasta`līq (نستعلیق) ('hanging' calligraphic) style
of Arabic script. As a de facto standard Urdu publishing tool, InPage is widely
used on PCs where the user wishes to create their documents in Urdu, using the
authentic style of Nastaliq with a vast ligature library (more than 20,000),
while keeping the display of characters on screen WYSIWYG
(What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get). Overall, this makes the on-screen and printed
results more 'faithful' to hand-written calligraphy than all or most other Urdu
software on the market. This is achieved while keeping the operation easy, akin
to that of earlier versions of standard English Desktop Publishing packages
such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.
Before being used within InPage,
the Noori style of Nastaliq, which was first created as a digital typeface
(font) in 1981 through the collaboration of Mirza Ahmad Jamil TI (as
calligrapher) and Monotype Imaging (formerly Monotype Corp.), suffered from two
problems in the 1990s: a) its non-availability on standard platforms such as
Windows or Mac, and b) the non-WYSIWYG nature of text entry, whereby the
document had to be created by commands in Monotype's proprietary page
description language.
In 1994, an Indian software development team - Concept
Software Pvt Ltd,[1] led by Rarendra Singh & Vijay Gupta, with the
collaboration of a UK company called Multilingual Solutions [2] led by Kamran
Rouhi, developed InPage Urdu for Pakistan's newspaper industry, who up until
that time had been using large teams of calligraphers to hand-write last minute
corrections to text created under Monotype's proprietary system. The Noori
Nastaliq typeface was licensed for InPage from Monotype & augmented for use
as the main Urdu font in this software, along with 40 other non-Nastaliq fonts.
InPage is reported to be in use on millions of PCs in
Pakistan & India (mainly illegal pirated version). It has also been widely
marketed & sold legally in the UK and India since 1994.[citation needed]
InPage launched its Version 3 at ITCN exhibition Asia in
Karachi, Pakistan, held in August 2008. This version is Unicode based, supports
more Languages, and other Nastaliq fonts with Kasheeda have been added to it
along with compatibility with OpenType Unicode fonts. In addition to Arabic,
Saraiki, Urdu, Persian & Pashto, other languages of the region, such as
Sindhi and Hazaragi can be handled in InPage.
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