One major frustration: Inpage Urdu 2007 was designed for Windows XP. But with some tweaks, it works on Windows 10 and 11. Here is a step-by-step guide:
The heart of InPage has always been its proprietary Noori Nastaliq font engine. Nastaliq is the calligraphic style used for Urdu, and it is notoriously difficult to render digitally because letters connect diagonally and contextually. InPage 2007 perfected this engine. It offered a degree of calligraphic accuracy that competitors like Microsoft Word (at the time) could not match. The flow of the text, the kerning (spacing between letters), and the "Kashida" (elongation) features allowed for text that looked handwritten by a master calligrapher. inpage urdu 2007