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nerminh26248191
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December 11, 2024
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Know-how on working with multiple language on packaging in Illustrator

  • December 11, 2024
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What is the best know-how on working with multiple language on packaging in Illustrator. We are making packaging with over 8 -9 langauges where current we copy past each langauge in the file and in some case we copy paste each word for Excel, and translations for a PDF, it a lot of manual work, is there a workflow to make this a bit easier and faster, when you have 8+ langauges it become a lot of work just copy -past, 

 

See examples langauges, enclosed 

we work with the following langauges NL- EN- DE- FR - PL- CZ - IT - ES - SK - PT - RO 
it would be great if there is work-flow to fine tune this process, currently it's a lot of work, copy, pasting, removing style, adding style to sections of the text and so on, 

I can't image this how very big companies do this, with a lot of products and langauges 

If you have any tips and tricks please let me know,

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creative explorer
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creative explorerCommunity Expert
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December 24, 2024

@nerminh26248191 I would use Google Translate, and copy and paste the text. If 'styles' were created, you might be able to speed things up to changing the text blocks. or

Use of scripts. You can write or find scripts that automate this task. Create a script to quickly replace all instances of a specific word or phrase with its translation. If you organize your text by language in layers, you might be able to write a script and rename them automatically.

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    nerminh26248191Author
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    December 24, 2024

    we have a company that does thetranslation, I was just wonderig ways to automate this work-flow because it's just to much manual work, thanks for the feedback

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    December 24, 2024

    The usual suspects for the packaging industry have something: https://www.esko.com/en/products/dynamic-content

    But they are also very expensive.

     

    There once was a plugin I think it was called Textflow, but as far as I know it has been discontinued..

    You could also check out TextSync: https://rj-graffix.com/downloads/plugins/

     

    Scripts would need to be tailored to a specific workflow.

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