ah ok. This is a design agency not translation company. The text was not translated.  ... View more

what do you mean by translation- standard practice? Is this a technical jargon? The indd file we supplied, was going to be combined with their indd file, standardised footer applied to our section and page numbers renumbered to run on consequitively. This was fine for a couple of rounds till it was not... I am not sure what you  are refering to with the 'standard practice of translating idml files'?  For some reason when they sent us some WIP sections from their part of the book, they would send us  both indd and idml, but we never used idml and we never supplied them with idml so clearly they were able to open our indd files ... View more

I am not sure if I understood your post correctly, but the agency do export the file IDML, even though there was no need as we were able to open our respective indd files. So I thought, maybe this conversion caused this when they exported the pdf from the idml. I have tested this with the file I have (and which had this numbering change after the agnecy output it) and the process was fine, no issues..... ... View more

The file went to the agnecy many times to be combined with their part of the larger file to produce the final book. There were no issues through the process until the last round. The issue appeared suddenly and worryingly we nearly published that document. This is a very bizzare and yet somewhow automated change, to affect all the numbers in the document. We had all range of numbers updated, footnotes, percentages, dates, tables, charts, any number mentioned in text- everything. If the agency were coming up with answers than I would not be here asking for advice 🙂 I have just spoken to Adobe and the opeartor I spoke to is not aware of a command that can do that in case some global change was actioned in error. We need to establish what caused this in order for this not to happen in future... Maybe somethingw as not compatible? Error with styles? Mac versus PC? Plug in or script sounds intriguing, have you seen such issue before? ... View more

sorry, should have mentioned. This occured in InDesign. 200 page document - all the numbers changed   ... View more