What is the Arabic Writer?
The Arabic Writer is a program designed to help Arab Designers to work with Programs that doesn't support Arabic language characters, such as Adobe Photoshop.
How does the Arabic Writer work?
While some programs doesn't support Arabic, almost all programs support Unicode, which is a universal charset that includes almost every character of every language.
But, as in most western languages, its left-to-right oriented, that's why when you try to type Arabic letters in Photoshop, it appears like you are writing backwards.
so, all we need is a program that re-arranges the Arabic letters in Unicode. that's exactly what the Arabic Writer does.
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What are the advantages of the Arabic Writer?
- The Arabic Writer is totally free, and available for everyone to use or edit if needed.
- It doesn't need a pack of special fonts (as in some similar programs), that's because most of the Operating Systems out there have fonts that support unicode like the Arial font for example.
- It supports Multiple User-Interface Lanaguages, English Letters, Symbols, Parenthesis, Arabic and English numbers, The use of multiple lines and the special (Laa) character.
- It can convert back the generated text to its origin if it was processed again in the same manner.
- Its very easy to edit the program by simply editing the HTML file, no need to recompile the code.
- It has an on-screen Arabic Keyboard to support systems that doesn't support the Arabic language at all.
- Its portable, and its very small in size (67 kbs).
- It can be run either from the exe file (Requires Windows + .NET Framework 2 or higher), or by simply running the HTML file in any browser under any Operating System (Linux, MAC, Android ..etc) which makes it (Cross-Platform).
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