Comments on: Using StoryTweaker to translate an InDesign document into another language

By: kris

kris — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:35:34 +0000

Further to this: Joris added the 1.2.0b26 beta to the download page yesterday – so the ‘Save as StoryTweaker Assignment…’ from InDesign menu item is now available for testing

By: kris

kris — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:29:12 +0000

Yes, it is important. These exported Assignments are meant to stay totally separate, away, outside from the tweak set. I’ll change the blog post to make that more clear – thanks for that!

By: kris

kris — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:27:45 +0000

That is correct. The field is just a comment field, and you can actually use it for whatever info you want, but the ‘target’ language is an obvious candidate.

I’ll adjust the blog post a bit later on – thanks so much for going through these!

By: kris

kris — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:25:52 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Good point! I’ll pass it on to Joris – easy to fix. Thanks for pointing that out!

By: Document Geek

Document Geek — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:17:57 +0000

And here: “Dennis selects both assignments, and clicks the Export Assignment… button.”

It is important to NOT put these in the Assignments folder that StoryTweaker created? Because that’s where my first inclination was to put them. But your procedure didn’t have me put them there. If they AREN”T supposed to go there, it may be a good idea to put a note along those lines.

By: Document Geek

Document Geek — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:02:18 +0000

In the instructions here: “Then he hits the key and enters the language of the assignment – German in this case.”

I assume this is for the language that the document will be translated into, rather than the language it is currently in.

By: Document Geek

Document Geek — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:56:47 +0000

Just FYI: in the section of the instructions above where it says: StoryTweaker has automatically opened the new tweak set. The tweak set has no assignments yet – that’s the next step in the process,” there is a screenshot that has in the header “Assignments : SmallCorp.” When I get to that step in the process, my header just says “Assignments.” Maybe changing the header bar was added in a later release…but having the header bar changed to your document name is a great way to follow along in the instructions. I’m on Mac 10.6.4, InDesign CS4, StoryTweaker 1.0.1. I got stuck for a day before I realized that my header bar wasn’t customized…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:36:04 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Ah – that’s my fault: the ‘Save as StoryTweaker Assignment’ is a feature of the next beta; we’re gearing up to release it, but we found some show-stopper issues, so it’s not up for download yet. I’ll adjust that post – change it into an announcement…

Thanks for pointing that out…

Cheers,

Kris

By: admin

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:33:47 +0000

Hi Kelly,

There should be an option in the StoryTweaker preferences that allows you to choose between CS3 and CS4. Try going to the StoryTweaker – Preferences screen – it should be there somewhere.

Cheers,

Kris

By: Document Geek

Document Geek — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:25:20 +0000

I could also not figure out how to get “File > Save as StoryTweaker Assignment” in my InDesign menu. Besides dragging the StoryTweaker folder to my hard drive, is there something else I need to do to get Story Tweaker into the APID tTool Assistant list so I an import the license file?

Thanks!
Kelly