In August 2009, we introduced YALT —“Yet Another Localization Technique”— as an alternate way to manage multilingual strings and automatic localization in our InDesign scripts. I use it in my everyday projects and I definitely abandoned the native ExtendScript L10N feature, which I believe is too restrictive and not so clever. YALT is a lightweight, quickly includable and easy-to-use tool. Month after month I improved the snippet with the result that it now has nothing to do with the original version! Maybe it's time to share YALT 2.1 with you. . .
Tag : L10N
YALT 2 | Your Scripting Localization Engine
July 24, 2010 | YALT | en | fr
Composer en arabe sous InDesign CS4
July 13, 2010 | Snippets | fr
Comme l'avait souligné Thomas Phinney dans son célèbre billet « World-Ready Composer in Adobe CS4 », InDesign embarque depuis la CS4 une ribambelle d'outils secrets capables de gérer l'écriture de droite à gauche propre à certaines langues, la bidirectionnalité et autres fonctionnalités qu'on pensait jusqu'alors réservées à InDesign ME. Ces goodies restent peu documentés mais sont déjà largement expérimentables grâce au scripting.
Equalizer 2.08 | Spanish UI Support and Bug Fixed
January 27, 2010 | Equalizer | en | fr
Thanks to Marie Lebert, Equalizer 2.08 for InDesign CS4 now provides a localized user interface for Spanish users. Moreover, a script issue concerning measurement units has been fixed. Update now!
Equalizer Now Supports Arabic Language UI
December 08, 2009 | Equalizer | en | fr
Equalizer 2.07 for InDesign CS4 supports five languages. The script now provides English (default), French, German, Russian and Arabic UI strings depending on the application locale.
Switching InDesign's UI Language (in Windows)
October 11, 2009 | Extras | en | fr
In a recent post, David Blatner (InDesignSecrets) offered us a free Mac OS application for InDesign to be displayed in various languages. Amazing tool for experiencing the user interface as translated for other countries. Fortunately Windows users can switch the UI too, by means of the Windows Registry.
Yet Another Localization Technique (YALT) – Part 2
August 17, 2009 | YALT | en | fr
In the previous episode, we designed a light-weighted markup syntax for localized strings of any JavaScript based projects. Now let's see how to get a generic and simple access to those L10N data.
Yet Another Localization Technique (YALT) – Part 1
August 03, 2009 | YALT | en | fr
When you need your script's user interface to be translated according to the InDesign application locale, the common approch is to invoke the localization ExtendScript feature. The process is pretty straightforward, except that —in a verbose UI— you will have to create and manage many “localization objects”.