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can pdf documents be saved in another language?

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Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016

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Can English pdf documents be saved or exported to other languages (Italian specifically)?

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Apr 09, 2016 Apr 09, 2016

More specifically, there are no automatic language translation facilities in Acrobat.

Besides the obvious issues of language translation itself, the process implies the ability to re-layout content due to differences in text length and to deal with the problems of existing fonts in the document that may not have the glyphs necessary to express all characters of the language you are translating to. And of course, translating from a left-to-right to a right-to-left language further complicates this

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Not possible with Adobe products.

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More specifically, there are no automatic language translation facilities in Acrobat.

Besides the obvious issues of language translation itself, the process implies the ability to re-layout content due to differences in text length and to deal with the problems of existing fonts in the document that may not have the glyphs necessary to express all characters of the language you are translating to. And of course, translating from a left-to-right to a right-to-left language further complicates this problem.

No other Adobe products supply any automatic translation facilities either, although they do support re-layout that comes with differing text lengths and directions.

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- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)

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Aug 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019

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Just would like to know how adobe reader manages copy to word

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Aug 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019

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Would to contact some of your delopers

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