The second piece of software we found invaluable for the translation of Infix was Infix itself! For translating the PDF documents – Welcome.pdf and QuickStart.pdf we used Infix to export them to XML, Sisulizer to translate the XML then Infix again to import the translated XML straight back into the original PDFs.
However, it does receive free updates fairly frequently and seems to be becoming more stable as time goes on. At times the app was very buggy and prone to losing our work. It catered for all of our needs though not without a certain amount of pain. In terms of software tools to perform the translation we opted for two, the first being Sisulizer. When you find a good one, you stick with them! However there were also a few not-so-great which suggests it’s just pot-luck even after you take references into account. On the plus side, we found some really great translators on. Translating the application, documentation and the website all at once has been a real experience – sometimes good, sometimes bad. Though we used professional translators for this, when it comes to answering support emails, that’s still down to us and careful use of Google translate! If you download a localized version and it doesn’t immediately display in your language, go to File->Preferences and change the GUI Language option. If you download from the English pages of the website, you will see links to all the other language versions at the bottom of the download page. We are also translating the web site to match and have so far completed Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
If we get enough call for this, then we’ll do it. We haven’t yet taken the plunge and translated the entire User Manual into those languages. These new versions include localized “Welcome” and “Quick Start” documents and install the local spell checker (where appropriate) by default. Infix PDF Editor is now available (in no particular order) in Chinese, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Czech languages. The first phase of Infix localisation is complete.
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