Help!

Tirza, hello!

One way around this if you have no arabic installed on your Apple is a long way but it gets the job done; The amount of text has to be somewhat limited, or your patience unlimited ;)

Your Arabic copy has to be TYPED, and cannot be imported in such a case as yours.

Install the font file of your choice into the font folder/font manager etc (like a .ttf, .otf etc)

Supposedly you are using the International/European versions of Adobe Illustrator or Pagemaker or Indesign. (Special ME versions of this software is available and can save you valuable time through normal text import) - however - you can set the arabic type by opening a standard text box, choosing your arabic font, OPEN the "glyphs" panel (this strips the font file main character and glyph set where u can click to type) under type in the main menu, and work your way backwards (Arabic goes from from left to right as you might have noticed) - then you can apply your text attributes, kerning, etc - and convert to paths/curves if you like.

I know this is one hell of a long way, but this works great if, like you said, you have no Arabic installed on your OS, no software that deals with Arabic font file curves etc.

I use this method on PC's without the "ME" Version installed at the studio, provided it's a poster or a project with a small amount of body.

U can use other software too, corel namely, or Freehand - but i have no idea how you can get around them :)

Hope this works for you,
Best of Luck...

the Adobe ME suite. I recommend buying it from Aramedia.
www.aramedia.com/adobeme.htm

If you need a designer to work with Arabic, let me know. I have all the Adobe apps in ME format.

salaam-
paul