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Refugee Phrasebook/How to paste Arabic
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To Adobe inDesgin
1 - Add a “Text Area” to your new document
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2 - In the main menu, choose “Type”, scroll down to “Fill with placeholder text” at the same time, press CMD on Mac or CTRL on PC
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3- In the dropdown menu, select Arabic
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4- Replace the placeholder arabic text with the text you copied from the wikibook
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Important notes:
You need to copy/paste each column / language separately.
If you want to copy/paste the whole columns, you have to download the google sheet, open it into Excel, save it as an xls file and paste it into inDesigh
You need to replace punctuation and line separations with a space or a dot “.”
For Urdu and Persian, please download ArabicGenie (Download Mac version here)