Category: InDesign
Right to Left Copying and Pasting of Periods and Parentheses
The Problem:
When copying and pasting parentheses and periods in right-to-left character sets, especially when they were positioned as the last character, these will be arranged in the wrong place, or will be flipped for some reason. The issue is very frequent when there is a mixture of English and Arabic, Urdu, etc.
Here is the text in Word:
I would select it, and then paste it into Storyline. Here is how it looked:
The Solution:
In Word, position the cursor just before (DSU):
Go to the Tab Insert, Symbols, More Symbols:
Select Special Characters, Right-to-Left Embedding, and the click on Insert:
Now, if you try the copy and paste again, it should work as expected:
Note: this could also work for many other characters and for many other tools, i.e. InDesign, PowerPoint, etc.
Support in Trados Studio 2015 for IDMLs created in InDesign CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019
Trados Studio 2015, by default, will not process InDesign’s IDML files created with versions CC 2017, 2018 and 2019. Here is the screen you will get when you drag the files for translation:
The two Warning messages read “Pre-Scanning failed to identify the file type, the following messages were generated:” and “Pre-Scanning Error: The selected IDML file was created by an unsupported version of Adobe InDesign and will not be processed”.
The Work Around
Before you add the files, click on File Types…
Now, search for Adobe InDesign CS4-CC IDML, expand it, and click on Common. On the right panel, you will click on Process unsupported file versions.
Now, you should be able to process files without any known issues, for at least version the versions mentioned above.