Middle Eastern (Arabic & Hebrew) Version - English menus:

Explore?more possibilities in Adobe? Illustrator? CS5.1 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 Illustrator CS5.1 software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that invite you to explore more efficient ways to design.

Typographic controls:

Compose beautiful typography and easily create Middle Eastern and multilingual documents in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 Get the most of Illustrator CS5 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).

Dictionary & Spell Checking:

Control your text in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 with a dictionary for Arabic 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 Illustrator CS5.1 with a dictionary and hyphenation module for Hebrew.

Font Support:

Get linguistic support for Middle Eastern languages in Illustrator CS5.1 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.

Find an examples of Arabic glyphs:

Importing and Exporting options:
Easily import and export Middle Eastern documents in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 to various formats, including RTF, Unicode, Word, Freehand, CorelDraw, PDF, SVG, PSD, EPS, EMF and DXF/DWG.