Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Using SDL's WinAlign to Align InDesign Files

If you have InDesign files in two locales and you want to align them for a translation memory, there are a couple of ways that you can do this.

  1. If you happen to have the version of InDesign that your files were created in, and InDesign CS4, you can save it down first to IDML, then to INX. WinAlign has a selection for INX files.
However, if you don't have CS4 for some reason, all is not lost. There is another option.
  1. Choose File -> Export for -> Dreamweaver. Then you can align the files using the HTML option. Just make sure you choose the same export options. There might be some parts that don't export in the same order, but overall, it works pretty well.