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Mir Emad Arabic Fonts Computer Application

MirEmad is a tool and set of fonts for Arabic calligraphy in Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign. It allows users to easily balance lines of poetry by cycling through letter forms and ligatures using keyboard shortcuts. Additional shortcuts make it possible to kern letters, overlap swashes, and accurately position dots and marks. MirEmad simplifies complex calligraphy tasks and enables exporting works to other design programs.

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Mir Emad Arabic Fonts Computer Application

MirEmad is a tool and set of fonts for Arabic calligraphy in Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign. It allows users to easily balance lines of poetry by cycling through letter forms and ligatures using keyboard shortcuts. Additional shortcuts make it possible to kern letters, overlap swashes, and accurately position dots and marks. MirEmad simplifies complex calligraphy tasks and enables exporting works to other design programs.

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The

Arabic Calligrapher of MaryamSoft


MirEmad — The What + How
MirEmad is a tool for/and a set of fonts for Arabic Calligraphy
in Word and InDesign.

Here is a 4-letter word formatted in Naskh in 3 different


styles with MirEmad.
Comparing the three styles, you can easily see:
• the ligature of the first 2 letters in the Middle and Bottom,
• the Kashida of the brown letter in the Middle, and
• the Swashing of the last letter in the Bottom.

Thanks to its unique keyboard-controlled stepping motor and


dynamic fonts, MirEmad makes it easy for you to:
• balance lines (of poems) in one or more of the following ways:

1. Cycling through 3+1 possible ends* for each letter then returning to the
required form
by pressing Alt+Space as follows:

place the cursor just after once or 1+4n twice or 2+4n 3


or 3+4n
Word in hand
the colored letter and press times to get times to get
times to get




Where n = Number of Cycles -1.
* … step-by-step from shortest to longest then shortest and so on.
3. Kerning letters to non-joiners by pressing Alt+Arrows as follows.
place the cursor just after the If
overdone,
Word in hand till kerning..
colored letter and go one pressing
reverse with

 

 

4 Overlaping letters across Swashes by pressing Alt+Arrows.

place the cursor just after the


If overdone,
Adjacent Words in hand till overlapping.
colored letter and go on pressing
reverse with



5. Cycling through the available Ligatures* then returning to the desired one as
follows:

Click just after the once or 1+4n twice or 2+4n 3 or


3+4n
Word in hand
colored letter and press times to get times to get times
to get






Where n = Number of Cycles -1.
* … step-by-step from the first available to the last then the first and so
on.
See how the adjacent letter automatically changes its end to join the colored
letter smoothly.
• accurately position dot(s) + marks after targeting them by pressing:



Place cursor between Fatha+!Sign Fatha+Shadda Body of Letter+Dot


To move> Fatha only Shadda+Fatha Shadda+Fatha+Dot
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To move one of these: How to target them

1  1. place the cursor just after the following


letter
2. press the right arrow once.
 1. place the cursor just after the following
letter
2
 2. press the right arrow twice.
with the dots of dotted letters 1. place the cursor just before the dotted-
letter
3
like Fa & Qaf 2. press the left arrow once.
• copy and past into other Microsoft Office applications.
• export artworks to InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop & CorelDraw
by pressing Alt+C and choosing one of the 4 formats :
EPS, EMF, DXF or BMP> then clicking one of 3 buttons:
1. drag+drop into the target program, or
2. copy and switch to the target program and paste, or
3. save and create a new file.

Summarizing Keys and translating Functions into Symbols


Keys Symbols Functions

  Kern + Overlap

  Position Dots + Marks

  Do+ Undo Ligatures

  Expand + Contract

  Undo All Changes

  Export to Applications


Spot the differences ‫إﻛﺘﺸﻒ اﻟﻔﺮوق‬

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