Posts labeled “low judgment”
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Missing Footnotes, Empty Table Cells, and Stale Index Pages After IDML Translation
A translated InDesign document comes back with a footnote number but no text, an empty table cell, or an index page that is blank or still in the source language. There are four questions to ask, in this order: Was…
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How to Check a Translated InDesign File in a Language You Cannot Read
A translated InDesign file comes back from the vendor. You are responsible for it, and you cannot read it. Most of the advice I found on this question ends the same way: have a native speaker review it. That is…
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Comparing InDesign Files After Translation: What to Check
A document goes out for translation as an InDesign file and comes back as an InDesign file. In between it went through a translation workflow: exported to IDML (InDesign's interchange format, a ZIP of XML files), split into segments, translated,…
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Where an InDesign Script Should Stop
A translated document comes back and the layout is full of overset text. Not one frame: dozens, spread across chapters, plus a handful of table cells where the German ran two lines longer than the English. A script can tighten…
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InDesign Will Not Warn You About External Links
A document opens cleanly. No red flags in the Links panel, no warnings on export. It gets zipped, copied to a shared drive, or handed off as it stands. On the other machine, images are missing — not one or…
