It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and macOS.

InPage is used on PCs where the user wishes to create their documents in Urdu, using the style of Nastaliq with a vast ligature library while keeping the display of characters on screen WYSIWYG.

This faithfulness is achieved while keeping the software simple and easy-to-use, akin to earlier versions of standard English Desktop Publishing packages such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

1988 in Delhi),[1] led by Rarendra Singh and Vijay Gupta, with the collaboration of a UK company called Multilingual Solutions[2] led by Kamran Rouhi, developed InPage Urdu for Pakistan's newspaper industry, who up until that time had been using large teams of calligraphers to hand-write last minute corrections to text created under Monotype's proprietary system.

[citation needed] InPage launched its Version 3 at ITCN exhibition Asia in Karachi, Pakistan, held in August 2008.