Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Microsoft Publisher 2016
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Via PDF
I haven't seen MS Publisher since its early version, I think for Windows 3.1 or 95.
AFAIK it EXports to DOC, but doesn't import back.
My solution, as you have Publisher, would be to print it to PDF, surprisingly a more workable format nowadays.
Many CAT tools can "invade" a PDF file to translate the text therein. AFAIK Trados, MemoQ, WordFast Pro & Anywhere will do it. However no CAT tool will fix the layout issues created by text swelling/shrinking during translation.
After it is translated, you'll need a PDF editor to fix that. There are many, some widely known being Infix and NitroPDF, on top of Adobe Acrobat (full), of course.
Infix offers you another option. It can export the text there within as (tagged) XLIFF, XML, or TXT for you to translate outside the PDF, and then import that back with the proper font specs in each block. It includes all the tools you might need to fix the layout.
Plan B would be using the AVS Document Converter or SolidConverter to transform that PDF into a Word file, and take it from there. Your mileage will vary on how workable that Word file will be for translation. Sometimes you get an unusually large number of text boxes, MS Word's way of making the unwary think that a word processor could be a DTP app.
Topic: Microsoft Publisher 2016
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Via PDF
I haven't seen MS Publisher since its early version, I think for Windows 3.1 or 95.
AFAIK it EXports to DOC, but doesn't import back.
My solution, as you have Publisher, would be to print it to PDF, surprisingly a more workable format nowadays.
Many CAT tools can "invade" a PDF file to translate the text therein. AFAIK Trados, MemoQ, WordFast Pro & Anywhere will do it. However no CAT tool will fix the layout issues created by text swelling/shrinking during translation.
After it is translated, you'll need a PDF editor to fix that. There are many, some widely known being Infix and NitroPDF, on top of Adobe Acrobat (full), of course.
Infix offers you another option. It can export the text there within as (tagged) XLIFF, XML, or TXT for you to translate outside the PDF, and then import that back with the proper font specs in each block. It includes all the tools you might need to fix the layout.
Plan B would be using the AVS Document Converter or SolidConverter to transform that PDF into a Word file, and take it from there. Your mileage will vary on how workable that Word file will be for translation. Sometimes you get an unusually large number of text boxes, MS Word's way of making the unwary think that a word processor could be a DTP app.