Translate PDFs using your existing CAT tools

Most professional translators will be familiar with the concept of document skeletons – exporting the contents of a document to leave a skeleton upon which the translated elements can be re-hung.

A skeleton ensures that the original layout and structure of a document remain in-tact. It also gives translators the option to use their preferred CAT tools for the job together with their valuable translation memories.

Available for other document types, this facility has never before existed for PDF, until now.

How Does It Work?

Infix Pro exports the document to simple XML. During the export all paragraphs are tagged both in the PDF and the XML. This tagging forms an association which allows the translated XML to be re-imported back into the correct place.

During import the software assists with the task of font-substitution when existing fonts do not contain the required characters for the translated text.

It also offers automatic text fitting to ensure new text is seamlessly adjusted to fit the space occupied by the original language text.

The XML exported is deliberately basic, limited to paragraphs, font changes, bold and italic. This should be compatible with most CAT tools and included in the install are some compatibility files for Trados and Across TM kindly generated by one of our beta-testers.

Watch a video demonstration of CAT translation using Infix Pro.

Infix on YouTube
See how one user employs Infix to translate English PDFs into Chinese.
Although he doesn’t use the XML translation facility, Infix still makes short work of an otherwise difficult PDF edit. Our thanks go to Kenneth Ko for creating the video.

“Just wanted to say thanks for an absolutely fantastic program. Infix has saved me hundreds of hours of work. The world needs to know that you have given the pdf world a means of editing pdfs.
Thanks again.”
K.Davidson, 2009