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THE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4-ME OPTION

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Enhanced features for Middle Eastern language users
Adobe Illustrator CS4-ME software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. It provides industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

System requirements for Adobe "CS4-ME" software is now:
for Windows XP or Vista; and for Macintosh System 10.4.11 (or higher).

Text Settings
Illustrator CS4-ME comes with special settings for typing and laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:
- Possibility to use Arabic, Farsi or Hindi digits
- Use kashidas for letter spacing and full justification
- Set vowels /diacritics positioning
- Ligature option
- Justify text in three possible ways to get the results you want (Standard, Arabic, Naskh)
- Control your text in Illustrator CS4-ME with a dictionary for Arabic and spell check your Arabic text to avoid typos with a choice of Rules, such as Strick Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
-Depending on your system requirements, control your text in Adobe Illustrator CS4-ME with a dictionary and hyphenation module for Hebrew.

Font Support
Get linguistic support for Middle Eastern languages in Illustrator CS4-ME, 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.

Additional Fonts
Illustrator CS4-ME supports 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.
Illustrator CS4-ME installs one additional font that facilitates your work in Middle Eastern languages: WinSoft Pro, which is available in four styles: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.

Bi-directional Text flow
In Illustrator CS4-ME, the notion of right-to-left behaviour applies to several objects: Story, Paragraph and Character. You can easily mix Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right Words, Paragraphs and Stories in a document

Dictionary and Hyphenation Module
Illustrator CS4-ME comes with a comprehensive dictionary for Arabic allowing you to spell check Arabic text with a choice of rules, like Strict Aleef Hamza, Strict Final Yaa, both or none.
Illustrator CS4-ME comes with a Dictionary and Hyphenation Module for Hebrew.

Find / Replace
You can search for and change specific occurrences of Middle Eastern text. Illustrator includes a "Ignore Accent" option. When checked, the user can search for a string of text whether it contains some accents or not.

Import/Export Options for ME characters
Illustrator CS4-ME includes improved import and export options for RTF, Unicode, Word, Freehand, CorelDraw, PDF, SVG, PSD, EPS, EMF and DXF/DWG files including Middle Eastern text.
Encodings has been added for Middle Eastern characters to facilitate text import and export, Save for Web and DXF/DWG file import.

The new 'CS4 ME' edition of Illustrator includes an extensive list of Desktop Publishing, Graphic Design and Internet publishing features.