Text export/import for language translation and CAT tools

[Chris Thompson]

For translated versions of documents, it would be good to be able to export the text from a Publisher document into a format suitable for language translation tools (CAT tools) like Trados etc.
And then be able to import the translated text, replacing the original text. Then all you need is a tidy-up of the translated text, instead of a long, error-prone copy+paste job.

InDesign accomplishes this via IDML, and the CAT tools enable professional translators to see only the text content (stories and index terms/footnotes etc) for translation purposes. So I imagine some kind of XML output would be handy from a developer point of view, and XML may well aid other forms of data interchange too.

Excited to see how things develop.
All the best,
Chris Thompson

[Josan]

Unfortunately, this is something that prevents me from changing from ID to AP. And I'm crazy to leave ID. And I bought my Affinitty license almost two years ago…

[JeffreyWalther]

On 6/20/2019 at 5:04 PM, Chris Thompson said:

For translated versions of documents, it would be good to be able to export the text from a Publisher document into a format suitable for language translation tools (CAT tools) like Trados etc.
And then be able to import the translated text, replacing the original text. Then all you need is a tidy-up of the translated text, instead of a long, error-prone copy+paste job.

InDesign accomplishes this via IDML, and the CAT tools enable professional translators to see only the text content (stories and index terms/footnotes etc) for translation purposes. So I imagine some kind of XML output would be handy from a developer point of view, and XML may well aid other forms of data interchange too.

Excited to see how things develop.
All the best,
Chris Thompson

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