Translating Spanish InDesign documents to English is one of the easier directions for layouts. English is shorter, inverted punctuation drops away, and text frames end up with room to spare. IDML.ai handles the translation — you just check the result and send it out.
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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 English 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.
English is 15–25% shorter than Spanish, which puts this in the same comfortable category as French-to-English. Your text frames will have extra space, not less. The one small thing to watch: Spanish often uses longer, more elaborate sentence structures — and when compressed into shorter English, the result can occasionally feel abrupt. A quick read-through of the translated text (not a full edit, just a scan) catches most of those cases in a few minutes.
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