Translating .indt files | You're right, I misunderstood the process

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Translating .indt files
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: You're right, I misunderstood the process

[quote]Joakim Braun wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
How are you then going to convert the translated normal document back to a template? [/quote]
By opening the translated .idml file and exporting it as .idmt from Indesign? [/quote]
Yes, I watched several more videos and found that you're right. In fact, I get the impression that an INDT file is simply an INDD file with a different file extension (to prevent people from accidentally damaging the template when they use it). Is that right? Can you convert an INDD file by changing the file extension?

MemoQ claims to be able to translate INDD files natively. If an INDT file is simply an INDD file with a different file extension, wouldn't it be easiest for the translator to just rename it and translate it like that? I don't know how well MemoQ handles INDD files, though.

[quote]You don't import .idml "into a normal document".[/quote]
I always thought that IDML is an export format (because of the way people talk about it), but you're right: it's not.
It's actually just a save format.