4/18/2023 0 Comments Ms publisher file viewer![]() ![]() ![]() pseudoTranslation.pub and it replaces all the vowels from the translatable content with % or $ characters. Create Pseudo file : creates a new pub file during export with the extension.Create PDF file : creates a PDF rendition of the pub file making it easy to see the format in context without MS Publisher available.Export pictures : pulls the images from the pub file and stores them in a separate folder where they can be localized if necessary.Export translatable content : pulls the translatable text out of the file and inserts it into a simple XML file.The export options here are very interesting: So you would drag and drop all the files you wish to convert into the interface of the Export tab, set your options and click “Export”… it’s as simple as that. A simple overview of the entire application is that it’s a drag and drop interface like this: The application itself is not complicated and has two screens, one for export and one for import. The basic idea is that this is a standalone application which makes the content available (text, formatting and images) for localization. I’m really hoping that as the development community becomes more established in 2016 we’ll start to see more of these community initiatives with more developers “ paying it forward” by investing in sharing a little of their knowledge to benefit everyone.īut I digress… back to MS Publisher! Overview Another Patrick, Patrick Porter, has done a similar thing with his code for machine translation plugins to Google and Microsoft and you can find them here as well as a few other things. In fact the developer of pub2xml, Patrick Hartnett, has shared the source code for several apps and a few other things on his Github site too, so it’s great to see other developers following suit and helping to grow the developer community with shared resources… I guess it’s a sort of “paying it forward” approach and I like it. This is something we also do with every application we have created through the SDL OpenExchange (now RWS AppStore) development team and you can find the source code for these here. and share this back into the source for others to use. This means that any developer could make a pull request to get the code and could make changes, enhancements, fix bugs etc. It is a good catch though because the developer has created a solution to a problem faced by many users and then made the code available as OpenSource on his Github site. The things that are missing relate to the handling of internal formatting, like tags for font changes midway through a sentence, or hyperlinked text. It’s also free, but still requires MS Publisher to be on your machine.īut there is a catch! The developer created the bones of this application and it seems to work really well for most files. But now there is a new application available, pub2xml, which also supports the latest versions of MS Publisher and it also provides some nice touches making it far easier to use. There has also been an application on the OpenExchange for around a year that can create an XML file from MS Pub (for the 2010 version only) and this does the job quite nicely and again requires a copy of MS Publisher to be installed. In the past I would have suggested T-Windows for Clipboard which is installed with Studio 2015 and this would allow you to translate the text (if you have a copy of MS Publisher) using your Studio Translation Memories. So very tricky indeed if you need to be able to provide your client with a translated version of the pub format. The file itself is a binary format and even with Office 2016 (which includes Publisher if you have the Professional version) the only export formats of PDF, XPS and HTML are not importable. And I do see requests from translators from time to time asking how they can handle them. It’s actually quite a neat application for newbies to desktop publishing like me, but it’s a difficult tool to handle if you receive *.pub files (the format used by MS Publisher) and are asked to translate them. “ Microsoft Publisher is an entry-level desktop publishing application from Microsoft, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing.” If you’ve never come across Microsoft Publisher before then here’s a neat explanation from wikipedia. ![]()
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