Language support – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Export enhancements
SWF Export: The Export Options dialog box displays Font license information.
Export For: The File > Export For menu has been removed. All supported options are consolidated in the Save As Type list in the Export
dialog box.
Options for exporting to Buzzword, SVG and SVG compressed are no longer available.
Language support
Adobe World-Ready composers and support for open-source HunSpell dictionaries enable you to use several additional languages using
InDesign.
Placeholder text with specified alphabet
You can enter placeholder text Roman, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese among others.
To specify the language of placeholder text, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) when you choose Type > Fill With Placeholder Text. In
the Fill Options dialog box, choose an alphabet and click OK.
HunSpell enhancements
For most languages, InDesign ships with open-source HunSpell dictionaries and HunSpell is the default dictionary provider. You can download and
install additional spelling and hyphenation dictionaries for other languages from the
To use InDesign with additional languages, choose Edit > Preferences > Dictionary and then click HunSpell Info.
Indic support
Adobe World-Ready Composer (WRC) provides correct word shaping for many of the non-Western scripts, such as Devanagari. Adobe World-
Ready composers in the International English version of InDesign, support several indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil,
Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Oriya, Malayalam, and Kannada.
Hunspell spelling and hyphenation dictionaries are inluded, and so is the Adobe Devanagari font family.
Enable the Adobe World-Ready Composer through a paragraph style (Paragraph Style > Justification > Composer) or using the Paragraph panel
menu.
Set indic preferences to work on indic scripts, and correctly import content into InDesign.
1. Choose Window > Utilities > Scripts
2. Double-click indicPreferences.js
3. Open a new document or restart InDesign
Middle Eastern support
InDesign CS6 is also available in middle eastern and north african editions. It adds support for Arabic and Hebrew, and provides several features
for working with right-to-left, bi-directional scripts, and other language-specific features. Enhanced functionality includes support for tables in the
Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and other text-handling improvements.
See Working with Arabic and Hebrew for more details.
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