Illustrator comes with special settings for typing and laying out Arabic or Hebrew text, such as:
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 one additional font that facilitates your work in Middle Eastern languages: WinSoft Pro, which is available in four styles: Medium, Medium Italic, Bold and Bold Italic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Illustrator comes with an enhanced filter to import Macromedia Freehand Hebrew files.
