Once you have created and populated your Content Groups, you then create a target-language document with a translation workflow.
By definition, translation jobs have both a source language and a target language. In order to leverage tools such as a translation memory (TM), we need both of these languages to be available in the workflow.
Given that an Adobe® InDesign® document is monolingual, we will need both our original source-language document and a separate target-language document. The target-language document is named a Version.
This is an excerpt from the workshop: Create a Translation Workflow.
Create a Language Version
To create a target-language version of your document:
- Select the project.
- Create a language version by either:
- clicking Create Version in the option menu of your project.
- clicking the + (plus) button in the lower pane that appears when a project is selected.
Update Document Properties
You can update the properties of your version document via the Project Details dialog.
- Click on Properties in the document's option menu to open the Project Details dialog for this version document.
- Update the details of this document.
NOTE: Version-Document Naming
The names of the main columns in the upper and lower areas are different. The source-language project documents are identified by a Project Name column, while the version documents are identified by a Version column.
- The Project Name is the text from the Name field of the source-language document.
- The Version is the text from the Version field of the version document.