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dondotreid
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August 19, 2026
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Braille support in Indesign and Illustrator

  • August 19, 2026
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I’ve been using a competing vector program for creating braille signage and wondered if there was any plans on having this be something Illustrator or Indesign could incorporate natively so that I can stop using the other program entirely? 

 

The workflow currently with adobe products is:

go to some conversion web page like brailletranslator.org

paste text in for the conversion, copy results

go back into my Indesign doc using a braille font with a CA Standard paragraph style (that I’ve created)

 

This works for making 1-10 signs, but I’d prefer to have this be something I was able to merge from a CSV file as we typically need to create 100 individual signs at a time--which the competing program will also not do. It does however have a TEXT TO BRAILLE and BRAILLE TO TEXT option from the TEXT menu and a panel that looks a little like this:  

 

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    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 21, 2026

    For others who see this, ​@dondotreid has reposted in the InDesign forum:

    https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/braille-1637845

    I’ve locked this thread in the After Effects forum.

    Jane

    dondotreid
    Participant
    August 19, 2026

    just noticed that this is the after effects board...i’ve re asked it over on the Indesign board, my apologies.