A Step by Step Manual to Preparing InDesign Files for Translation

If you are a translator, agency or desktop publisher who has had to translate InDesign files in the past you have probably full fledged one, if not all, of the problems I wish help you prevent.

It is crazy that InDesign is one of the most ordered translation formats yet there are still so galore who suffer problems during the translation cycle. You no longer have to be one of them.

Now do not get me wrong, I am not an InDesign expert or even as a Desktop Publisher, and you do not need to be either, but in my eight years of running a translation agency I have had to deal with a lot of InDesign files and before I knew what I cognize now...

I HAVE:

• paid external resources to help me fix problems
• missed deadlines with customers screaming
• had sleepless nights because an InDesign file has gone wrong
• had to translate files with incomplete sentences/text in the wrong order
• spent hours reading help files
• undercharged through lack of experience in what to expect
• had customers complain that things were wrong or not translated
• wasted hours searching the Computer network for answers
• had translators complain that they can't activity with the text

Once you have see this manual you wish cognize how to:

• identify all the areas that could affect the translation process and fix them
• reduce the file size and get rid of excess information
• setup a default activity environment to follow the checks
• open files across some versions
• export the text to a format that can be handled by most professional translators

For each stage you wish discover how to identify an issue and fix it and I wish explain why it wish cause problems. Wherever necessary I wish even as show you what the text wish look like once bestowed to a translator. And do not worry if you have ne er worked with InDesign before as I provide easy to follow manual and screenshots for every stage.

I wish besides tell you about:

• CAT tools used by most translators that can handle InDesign files
• where to get help once all else goes wrong
• where to find information just about common errors
• commercial tools on the market that aid in the export/import process