All indesign stories to word for translation

[Natobasso]

Using raw text enables it to be affected by whatever styles are in your indesign doc. MacGizmo is on the right track, though, with a good solution; though I've never tried it that way.

[MacGizmo]

I guess I left out the part where when you get the file back, you just re-link the text files just as you would a graphic.

[Slicktrix]

Thanks guys,

But I can't see txt nor rtf in the format box when exporting.

I did stumble upon this: http://www.rorohiko.com/textexporter.html
It's a free plugin to export all text as a single rtf, txt or indesign tagged text file.
I guess with the tagged text it has to be possible to get everything placed back automatically. But I still need to figure out just how that works...

Thanx for your help!!!

[Natobasso]

Copy your text into TextEdit and change to .txt format (command + T key) to change to raw text.

[Esquilinho]

Originally Posted by Slicktrix

Thanks guys,

But I can't see txt nor rtf in the format box when exporting.

It's only available when you have text selected

[fryke]

It's probably not only _one_ text wrapped throughout the document. I at least often have documents which might have one big text, but also some separate text boxes. Those would need translation as well, so it's not one big text which can easily be re-linked. Also if you _do_ have things like single words in italics, this won't survive through a plain text format, anyway. You'd need at _least_ RTF for that. But even then, you'd probably have to reapply styles from your ID document and might lose some formatting.

[Natobasso]

pasting .txt means that pasted text takes the format of whatever it's pasted into...

[michela]

I have a multiple page brochure that needs to be translated into Russian without loosing too much of the design and formatting. Any idea of what programs are out there that can translate the text directly in InDesign with minimal formatting change?