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importing pdfs to in design

Feb 8, 2013 5:10 AM

i am working on a document in in design in english that needs to be produced in 2 other languages. the people supplying th etranslated text do not have in design. is it possible to export to a pdf that they can add transaltions in and then for me to re-open their ammended pdf in in design?

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  • Peter Spier
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    1. Peter Spier,
    Feb 8, 2013 5:22 AM   in reply to mh18
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    The simple answer is no. PDF is a "final" format and there's really no way for your translators to do their work in that format, even if it was a good idea, which it isn't. PDF is either palces as essetially an image format, uneditable in ID, or you can use a commercial plugin to open a PDF and convert it to ID, but there's no guarantee of perfection.

     

    Joel Cherney is our translation expert, and hopefully he'll see this in a few hours and comment, but I think the first thing to find out is what formats do your translation people normally use?

     
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  • Bob Levine
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    2. Bob Levine,
    Feb 8, 2013 5:23 AM   in reply to mh18
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    No.

     

    You can export the text to RTF and have them use that. Then create a new

    document based on your English version and place the RTF files. Make

    sure the translator does not style anything.

     

    Bob

     
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