InPage Interview Preparation Guide

If you wish to publish some urdu/arabic/persian material on internet you can use .GIF generating capability of InPage to make pages for web. For this you will need to look at the Export Page menu item of File menu.
If you have already laid out a page in InPage, then you can export-
The complete page by opting for the Pages From/To radio button. The page will be exported in GIF format and will be saved under the .GIF file. You can now proceed to use this file in your HTML pages.
· one or more selected object by opting for the Selected Objects radio button. In this case if you want to put a newspaper page on internet then you can first generate .GIF files for the headlines by selecting the individual text or title text boxes and using this Export Page command. Later on you can generate .GIF files for the columnar text containing various newspaper stories by selecting and generating .GIF for these linked text boxes.

InPage can generate .PDF file if you have installed the Adobe Distiller driver. Then you can use the Print command in InPage to generate a .PDF file. An internet user can use Adobe's Acrobat reader to read and print this .PDF file. But please note that since InPage uses quite a number of fonts, these files can become bery big.

You can also generate Postscript files by using a standard postscript printer driver like Linotronic 330 and printing to a file. While printing you should ensure that 'Send Truetype as Type 1' has been set on in the Advanced Option dialog.

You can intermix arabic - persian text with nastaliq and naskh styled urdu text by changing to a different font (for example Trad Arabic, Aasaar, etc.) when you need to enter arabic or persian. For example, see the following line with arabic text (with aeraabs) juxtaposed alongside urdu.

If you wish to enter English as well, you can do so by entering in the same line by first toggling to English entry mode and entering English on the same line.
Now as you can see the English text spills over to the next line and actually comes below the Arabic text. If you wish to have columnar text of Arabic followed by columnar text of Urdu and columnar text of English, then you have two options.

★ Insert a table using Table menu item in the Insert menu and choose a three columnar table.
★ Set the font of the first column (by first selecting the column by double clicking) to Trad Arabic, second column to Noori Nastaliq. Other attributes like Forced Justify, Line Direction etc. can also be separately applied to each column in the table.
★ Click on first column and enter Arabic text. Press Tab key when you have finished with Arabic entry.
★ Enter the Urdu translation in the second column. Press Tab key at the end.
★ Now toggle to English entry mode in the third column. Enter the English translation in this column.

This option is useful if you wish to have continuous Arabic, Urdu and English text (for example an Urdu and English translation of The Holy Quran). In this case follow these steps-
★ Make a new Right To Left document without automatic text box. If need be make a double sided document.
★ Go to Master Page mode by clicking on the Master Page button. On the master page, make three independent and un-linked text boxes.
★ Change over to the document mode by clicking again on Master Page button. In the document area, you can set fonts for each of the text chain.
★ For the first column, click on the text box by clicking with I-Beam tool and set the font of this text chain by double clicking and setting the font to Trad Arabic font from the Urdu fonts combo box.
★ For the second column, click on the second text box by clicking with I-Beam tool and set the font of this text chain by double clicking and setting the font to Noori Nastaliq font from the Urdu fonts combo box.
★ For the third text box, set the line direction of the paragraph to Left to Right.
★ If required set the justified option to Full Justify for all the three text chains.
★ Now you have the basic infrastructure for entering Arabic text in the first text chain, Urdu text in the second text box and English text in the third text box.

You can use InPage to inter mix mathematical equations with urdu/english text. These equations will need to be entered in MS Windows compatible software which supports equation. One such package is Microsoft's Equation Editor.

If you have problems in baseline alignment of equation and Urdu text, it is suggested that you go to the Normal style sheet (from Format Style sheet menu item) and modify the baseline shift in Character dialog to -2 pt. This will lead to shifting of complete Urdu text by -2 pt and the text and equations will align on the baseline.

First run Equation Editor.
★ In In-Page, position your caret at the point where you wish to insert the equation.
★ Now go to Equation Editor (by using standard Windows application switching short cut key sequence-Alt-Tab). Type in the equation in the Equation Editor. Copy the equation from the editor and then paste it in In-Page at the caret position.
★ You will notice that the equation gets pasted as an inline picture. Thus at any point in the text you can paste such equations. Because these equations get pasted as Windows meta-file, there will not be any loss in print quality when you take a print out.