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If you wish to publish some urdu/arabic/persian material on internet you can use .GIF generating capability of InPage to make pages for web. For this you will need to look at the Export Page menu item of File menu.

If you have already laid out a page in InPage, then you can export-

The complete page by opting for the Pages From/To radio button. The page will be exported in GIF format and will be saved under the .GIF file. You can now proceed to use this file in your HTML pages.

· one or more selected object by opting for the Selected Objects radio button. In this case if you want to put a newspaper page on internet then you can first generate .GIF files for the headlines by selecting the individual text or title text boxes and using this Export Page command. Later on you can generate .GIF files for the columnar text containing various newspaper stories by selecting and generating .GIF for these linked text boxes.

This option is useful if you wish to have continuous Arabic, Urdu and English text (for example an Urdu and English translation of The Holy Quran). In this case follow these steps-

★ Make a new Right To Left document without automatic text box. If need be make a double sided document.

★ Go to Master Page mode by clicking on the Master Page button. On the master page, make three independent and un-linked text boxes.

★ Change over to the document mode by clicking again on Master Page button. In the document area, you can set fonts for each of the text chain.

★ For the first column, click on the text box by clicking with I-Beam tool and set the font of this text chain by double clicking and setting the font to Trad Arabic font from the Urdu fonts combo box.

★ For the second column, click on the second text box by clicking with I-Beam tool and set the font of this text chain by double clicking and setting the font to Noori Nastaliq font from the Urdu fonts combo box.

★ For the third text box, set the line direction of the paragraph to Left to Right.

★ If required set the justified option to Full Justify for all the three text chains.

★ Now you have the basic infrastructure for entering Arabic text in the first text chain, Urdu text in the second text box and English text in the third text box.

With InPage, you can now enter text in Urdu, copy the text box and paste it in Corel Draw 5.0. The various steps are-

★ First run InPage.

★ Now launch Corel Draw.

★ Make a headline in InPage by first creating a text box or a title text box and entering Urdu in the text box.

★ Once the text has been completely entered, select the Arrow Tool from the tool strip and now select this text box in the arrow mode.

★ Copy this text box onto the clipboard by using the Copy command.

★ Now switch to Corel Draw and paste the text box you have already copied onto the clipboard.

★ Go to the Arrange menu and choose Ungroup.

★ Sometimes a text box appears as a frame when you paste the text in Corel Draw. After ungrouping, you can select the frame and delete the extra frame.

★ Now select the complete text using the selection rectangle and choose Combine menu item from the Arrange menu.

★ Insert a Table with three columns. The extreme left and extreme right columns are to be used for entering ghazal text. The middle column will be used for controlling space between the text.

★ Set the table width of the extreme right column (column no. 1) and extreme left (column no. 3) to 3 cm. Set the middle column to 0.2 cm. Set the Table Alignment to Centered. All these operations are to be carried from Format Table menu item in Format menu.

★ Select all the columns and click on the Forced Justify icon from the Text Ribbon.

★ Now enter Urdu text in column no. 1. Follow it up with two tabs to reach column no. 3 and enter the corresponding second part of the couplet.

★ Continue till you have entered all the four lines.

★ For the bottom portion of the ghazal, enter one column table and specify the width as 3 cm. Again select the column and set the Forced Justify option.

★ Now enter Urdu text for the bottom portion of the ghazal.

★ Repeat the above steps till you have laid out the complete ghazal.

★ Create a style sheet by choosing the Style sheet menu item from the Format menu and clicking on the New button in the ensuing Style sheet dialog.

★ Enter the name of the new style sheet as lets say 'Right' and click on OK button.

★ Now click on the Paragraph button and specify the beginning indent (from left) as 5 cm and end indent (from right) as 2 cm. Also choose the Alignment as Forced Justify.

★ Enter the keyboard shortcut for the style sheet as 'R'.

★ Make another style sheet and call it 'Left' with keyboard shortcut as 'L'.

★ Specify the beginning indent as 2 cm and end indent as 5 cm.

★ Once you have these style sheets, you can use Ctrl+Shift+R and Ctrl+Shift+L to apply the style sheet to the current paragraphs.

★ First apply Ctrl+Shift+R and enter first two lines of Urdu text.

★ Now apply Ctrl+Shift+L and enter next two lines of Urdu text.

★ Repeat the last two steps till you have entered the complete ghazal.

★ Insert Table by using the Table menu item in the Insert menu.

★ Specify number of columns (2 in this case) required along with its width if any. If you do not specify the width of the column, the text box width will be divided by number of columns required and you will get the default column width.

★ Select the right column & click on Arabic character alignment button.

★ Select the left column & click on the Latin character alignment button.

★ Now start in Urdu entry mode and enter Urdu text. Once the text has been entered in a cell, press Tab.

★ In this cell switch to English entry mode and enter the English text.

★ Repeat the above steps to completely enter all the Urdu and English text.

This dongel is white in color and is attached to the parallel port of your machine. There are two ends of the dongel. One end of the dongel gets attached to the parallel port of your machine. The printer cable gets attached to the other end of dongel. To install the dongel onto your machine please follow these steps:

★ If your computer is already connected to the printer, ensure that the printer is switched off.

★ Remove the printer cable from the computer end. Attach one end (male end) of the dongel to the parallel port and screw it tight using the built-in screws provided with the dongel.

★ Now you can attach the printer cable onto this dongel.

★ You can switch on your printer if you wish to use it immediately.

The dongel does neither interfere with any other application already installed on your machine nor with any other functionality of your computer like Printing etc. Once you have correctly and firmly attached the dongel, you can begin installing InPage from the supplied floppy disks.