CopyFlow Gold for Adobe InDesign now exports to RTF, Tagged XML and XLIFF. All exports are sorted in logical order; which greatly faciliates the translation process. Most translators find the XLIFF format the most useful for exporting text to their translation tools. There is more on text formats below. The Quick Reference guides listed below describe the workflows. CopyFlow Gold for InDesign can also export & import entire folders of InDesign documents in a single batch.

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TEXT FORMATS

Our reasons for offering such a plethora of export/import formats is both historical and for openness – in the hope we may cover interfaces to as many translation tools as reasonably possible. We can describe the relative strength of the formats we support for InDesign - but not necessarily pair them with specific translation tools. Almost all tools now accept XML based formats incl'd XLIFF and almost all accept RTF.

RTF — although this format is very popular - it is one of the more problematic in round-tripping accuracy. The RTF typography is translated (interpreted) from InDesign to RTF on export and then back on Import. This means typographic attributes which cannot be expressed in RTF are lost in the round-trip; causing 'rounding' of sizes and perhaps loss of some of the InDesign typographic meta-data. RTF does not support round-tripping of anchored/inline text boxes, and inline pictures are problematic. Really only to be used for the simplest types of work.

Adobe Tags/Tagged XML file — Adobe tags (and Adobe Tags wrapped as XML) as the traditional tagged text form originally introduced by InDesign. We created the Tagged XML file from Adobe tags to facilitate its use with TagEditor (SDL-Trados). Typographically accurate round-trips but again does not support inline text or picture boxes. There have been few improvements to this format since CS3 - so it may miss newer Adobe features.

XLIFF — our choice for round-tripping accuracy. Typography is accurate after round-trip and all inline/anchored items are supported. XLIFF is compatible with SDL-Trados Tag Editor and their new SDL Studio 2009. The XLIFF was a bit of a departure for us in that it uses a background 'skeleton' file to preserve the formatting meta-data. We map each segment of text data back to its slot in the underlying skeleton file by position, not by label or name - so the segments must remain in the correct order. In some cases you can reduce numbers of segments by prepping work - e.g., there may be little need to carry kerning across a translation, so this might be stripped from InDesign pages before export.

 

  CopyFlow Gold is compatible with SDL-Trados translation software.

 

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