Entering the Chinese market with InDesign materials? Two things to know upfront: the translation is the easy part (IDML.ai handles that in minutes), but you'll need CJK fonts installed in InDesign or every character shows up as a box. Read the tips below before you start.
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In Adobe InDesign, go to File → Export and choose Adobe InDesign Markup (IDML). This creates the file you'll upload.
Drop your IDML file on IDML.ai and select Chinese as the target language. The source language is detected automatically.
Pay per document (from €3), download the translated IDML, and open it in InDesign. Layout fully preserved.
This one's counterintuitive. Chinese text is way shorter by character count — up to 50% fewer characters. But Chinese characters are wider than Latin letters, so the visual space they take up can be surprisingly similar. In practice: your text frames won't overflow, but the typographic rhythm will feel different. That's normal. What will feel very different: Chinese doesn't use word spaces, and line-breaking follows different rules. Expect to do some InDesign hyphenation/justification tuning after import. We strongly recommend doing a test run with a single page before translating your full 60-page catalog to Chinese. Font issues are much easier to catch on one page.
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