Posts labeled “translation”
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A Translation Quality Score Is Not Enough to Approve an InDesign Document
I would not approve a translated InDesign document on a segment quality score alone. Two papers published this month examine the performance and reliability of automated translation evaluation. This article is also available as a short video on YouTube: A…
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Words Missing After Placing a Word DOCX in InDesign: How to Check the File
After you place a Word manuscript, a few words are gone. In one reported case on r/indesign , the Word file said "John 1:11-12 said," and the placed text stopped at "John 1:11". In that thread and in an older…
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What to Check When Replacing Fonts in a Translated InDesign File
A translated InDesign file often comes back still set in the original fonts. If those fonts lack the Thai or Chinese characters, missing-glyph boxes appear, and the obvious fix is to replace the fonts. A suitable replacement can clear those…
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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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Why IDML Formatting Can Produce Translation Tags, and What to Check in InDesign
A document goes out for translation as IDML and the translator writes back: the file is full of tags. Some segments have a tag pair around a single letter. Others have a dozen tags in one sentence. The translator asks…
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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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Seeking Testers: Comparing IDML Files Before and After Translation
I'm developing a tool that compares two IDML files: the InDesign document you sent out for translation, and the one that came back. It runs on Windows, the current build is unsigned, and the trial is free. I plan to…
