PlanetPress Suite provides you with two ways to add Arabic content to PlanetPress Design documents. Static text as well as variable data can be added using both Text objects and PlanetPress Talk objects.
You can use Text objects to display both static text and variable content, such as data selections, in the same object. Text objects also let you mix Arabic and non-Arabic styles within the same object, although not in the same paragraph.
Before you can create documents that contain Arabic text, you must have enabled the linguistic options required for Arabic text. Refer to Windows documentation for more information on regional settings and linguistic options.
To include objects that contain Arabic text, be it Text or PlanetPress Talk objects, your PlanetPress Design document must have at least one Arabic style. Arabic styles must be associated with the font type ”TT, host, Arabic” and with a Unicode font, such as Andalus or Arial.
Note that in some cases, Arabic characters included in the same word may not be correctly attached.
You can display Arabic text in the Data Pane as well as in the Data Selector itself. A box named Data encoding lists all the single and double-byte encodings supported by PlanetPress Design Just below this box is a new option that lets you specify wether or not the data is already formatted as Arabic text. Finally, an option lets you turn contextual analysis of the data on or off.