Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Translating .indt files
Poster: Joakim Braun
Post title: Binary formats
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
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.
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.indt and .indd are both proprietary, CAT-averse binary formats.
.idml is a CAT and reverse engineering friendly XML format.
Tested creating a new .indd file and saving a copy as .indt. The files are not binary identical. But when working in Indesign, the expectation is that opening .indt will bring up EXACTLY the same document contents as opening the corresponding .indd, the only difference being that a new document is created for .indt. So the files should contain the same information, perhaps arranged differently.
(When renaming .indt -> .indd and vice versa, Indesign handles the resulting file as expected.)
Topic: Translating .indt files
Poster: Joakim Braun
Post title: Binary formats
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
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]
.indt and .indd are both proprietary, CAT-averse binary formats.
.idml is a CAT and reverse engineering friendly XML format.
Tested creating a new .indd file and saving a copy as .indt. The files are not binary identical. But when working in Indesign, the expectation is that opening .indt will bring up EXACTLY the same document contents as opening the corresponding .indd, the only difference being that a new document is created for .indt. So the files should contain the same information, perhaps arranged differently.
(When renaming .indt -> .indd and vice versa, Indesign handles the resulting file as expected.)