You'll see what we mean if you examine the pdf document in the pdfedit gui first. You will often find that one line of text will contain two or more text objects. As your translations would take up more or less space in the document, you would end up with overtyped text, or ugly gaps. (Yes, its a mess, blame adobe.) Not to mention that the line justification would be messed up as well.
You will have to keep requesting that your clients send you the original Word, Publisher or OpenOffice (we wish) document. Or extract the graphics from the PDF and try to re-create that document - for an extra fee, or course. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jozef Misutka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I can imagine that it would be a hit :) but it is not possible because of how > pdf is working :( > > Maybe something very simple could be done, but the main problem is that we do > NOT deal with the typesetting itself - where a line break should be, a page > break etc - and unfortunately this is NOT automatic in pdf files. > > cheers, > jozo > > > ________________________________ > > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:35:14 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] feature suggestion > > > Hello, > > Maybe it's a coincidence, but I'm also one of those not-so-common translators > using Linux and have exactly the same problem. I've tried the feature > "Convert to xml", which is great because then you can translate the XML files > easily. But I don't really know how to convert it back to PDF, is there any > application, command line or GUI, to convert xmlpdf to the original format? > > Thanks! > > Rafa > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Martin Alaçam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > First off, thanks and a big bravo for this great program, díky! I > joined this list to make a feature suggestion. Not being a > programmer, I have no idea how difficult my request would be to > implement. I apologize beforehand if it is too far out. > > I belong to the rare species of translators using linux. Often I > receiva pdf's as source documents. In these cases I usually convert > the pdf to txt, and send it to the customer as a warning how my final > translation would look like. You can imagine their joy. > > Pdfedit has an extract text function. How difficult would it be to > export the text to an xml file, allow it to be replaced by a > translation and inserted back to its correct place? I don't know any > program which is able to do this, not even on other platforms. It is > true, that some CAT (computer aided translation) tools are able to > work with the formats of the graphic software used to create pdfs, > but most of the companies don't have the 'source' documents. Anyway, > I believe this function would be a real hit amongst translators. > > Best regards > > Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn "10 hidden secrets" from Jamie. > http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
