InPage
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InPage
InPage 3.05 Unicode displaying the text "Wikipedia" in different fonts
Original author(s)
Concept Software
Developer(s)
InPage Team
Initial release
1994; 18 years ago
Stable release
3.0 / August 2008; 4 years ago
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Available in
English
Type
Desktop publishing software
License
Proprietary
Website
inpage.com
InPage is a word processor and page layout software for languages such as Urdu,Persian, Pashto and Arabic under Windows which was first developed in 1994. It is primarily used for creating pages in the language of Urdu, using the Nasta`līq (نستعلبق) ('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, and is utilized in the majority of UK schools & local authorities where Urdu is a main language of pupils & constituents.[citation needed]
InPage launched its latest Version 3 at ITCN exhibition Asia in Karachi, Pakistan, held between 11–13 August 2008.[3] It is now Unicode based, supports more Languages, and Faiz Lahori Nastaliq font with Kasheeda has 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. AAJ MAIN APP KE LIYE INPAGE KA NEW 2011 VERSION LE KER AAYA HON ISS MAIN OLD VERSION KE MUQABLE MAIN ZIYADA KHASOSIYAT HAIN UMMEED HAI AP KO PASAND AYE GA
InPage Urdu is an extremely powerful publishing software that handles Urdu, Arabic, Persian, English and other language with level of ease and harmony never achieved before. Built on a robust proprietary state-of-the-art multilingual engine, InPage Urdu provides for complete flexibility for utilization of all these language, whether they are used separately, side-by-side or fully-integrated in your document.
Based on the universally acclaimed Noorinastaliq font, InPage Urdu offer WYSIWYG display of Urdu in nastaliq script. This enables you to layout your documents accurately, aesthetically and in double quick time.
Running under MS Windows, InPage Urdu makes publishing not only easy but also enjoyable. it is as easy to create a one page design as it is to document a 1000 page book . You may import images of most popular formats into your documents, move them around on the fly, write text and create tables in any orientation and then dress it up with built-in color and other typographic /creative features.
With InPage Urdu, you have finally found the software package that combines the power and flexibility of desktop publishing with the calligraphic beauty of Nastaliq script.
