CS4 or CS5 (.5)?

yeah Ive noticed the significant file size reduction but never that small...(checked C5.5) havent checked with cs4 yet... (for decrease to such a small idml)

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Bob Levine wrote:

 

I’d be way more concerned about the INDD file size than the IDML size.

 

450 megs is a disaster waiting to happen.

It would explain the tiny tiny IDML size. Images, remember, are not stored inside an IDML.

Nothing about your question is really translation-tool-specific, it seems to me - but I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the process, and expand on industry-specific stuff if necessary.

i saved the file under another name

That's probably how you fixed it, you know, if it's not still broken. It's what Bob told you to do in post 8 - when you do a File -> Save As, the resultant file is supposed to be stripped of extraneous history & et cetera, bringing the file size down.

then saved the new file in the idml format

Well, I'm sure you mean exported (because you get to IDML via File -> Export, not File -> Save) but so long as you got an IDML out of it then it was a success, right?

it then it exploded to 877 MB.

As Bob implies, that is a very bad sign. IDML files are usually much smaller than INDDs. (If you go through the rename-extension-to-ZIP-and-unzip process, you'll see that inside the IDML are a bunch of XML files inside. Most of those describe the structure of the document, but inside the "Stories" folder you should find one XML file for each story in the INDD. Since it's all raw text (all of those XML files are raw text inside) then for an 877MB text file there is a truly insane amount of information. It's quite probably that something is wrong with your source file - and my hunch would be that you would discover that when you were done with the translation and were attempting to create the translated file. So, the fact that you can open up the IDML in your translation tool is, sorry, not good enough. If you can save and regenerate INDD, then you know that you're safe to start working on the translation.

I'm kind of curious about the file size of the source INDD after you resaved with a new name. Also, you should try to make a copy of the 877-meg IDML and see if you can reimport it into InDesign without translation. I suggest this because it's one of the best way to repair corrupted INDDs that we have, to export IDML and re-import and re-save as a new INDD. Also, if your IDML is so messed up that it is about a thousand times the ordinary size of an IDML, then it may be so messed up that you won't be able to re-import the IDML back into InDesign at all.

Is it can reduce this time to export.

Thank you

Yes i just try to save as the file , it go to from 30 Mb to 25 Mb.

They are files with table, text and 30/40 linked images.

My machine have 270GB free space and Xeon processor and 6GB memory ram.

No it made with Indesign CS5.5 and i try in this moment i start at 9.00 and it didn't end