Text Settings Illustrator 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)

Additional Fonts Illustrator 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 installs additional fonts that facilitate your work in Middle Eastern languages (WinSoft Pro, Adobe Arabic and Adobe Hebrew in four styles: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold and Bold Italic).

Bi-directional Text flow In Illustrator, 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 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 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 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.

Freehand Hebrew text Illustrator comes with an enhanced filter to import Macromedia Freehand Hebrew files.