Translating Indesign files

> I would like to translate Indesign files. Is there any possible way
> of doing this using Indesign to export the text?

Yes. With the cursor placed in the text you want to translate, choose
File > Export and choose RTF as the format. Then you can fairly easily
prepare your translation in Word using the same styles and reimport it.

> - Exporting would respect the text blocks. I.e. the blocks would
> have separate "tags" to identify the "position" in the page.

I wouldn't worry about that myself, as it would probably (for me
anyway) be more difficult to get the procedure worked out on this than
it would be to simply reposition the text after reimporting as
required. If you have a lot of separate text blocks (and maybe even if
you don't), I'd say get yourself a big screen if you don't have one
(they can be pretty cheap these days) and do your translation right in
InDesign, starting off with identical copies of the original side by
side and turning one of them into your translation. You could do that
in either layout or story view, or use both.


Roy McCoy
Rotterdam, NL