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, led by Rarendra Singh & Vijay Gupta, with the collaboration of a
UK company called Multilingual Solutions 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.
InPage launched its latest Version 3
at ITCN exhibition Asia in Karachi, Pakistan, held between 11–13 August
2008. 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.
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