InDesign: Multilingual Publishing Strategies

Walks you through the ins and outs of working with multiple languages in InDesign, from choosing a font for a specific language to exporting multilingual EPUBs.

Welcome

• Introduction
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Language Publishing Essentials

• Exploring the world's language groups
• Exploring fonts and character sets
• Working with language dictionaries
• Using composers and composition rules
• Changing language direction

2. Working with Individual Languages

• Typesetting Western European languages
• Typesetting Central European, Cyrillic, and Greek languages
• Typesetting Indic languages
• Typesetting Middle Eastern (ME) languages
• Typesetting Chinese
• Typesetting Japanese
• Typesetting Korean

3. Choosing the Right Application

• Language versions of InDesign
• Scripts and templates for ME languages
• Templates for Chinese and Japanese
• Using the ScribeDOOR plugin for ME languages
• Using the World Tools plugin for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and ME languages
• Using Illustrator and Photoshop

4. Multilingual Workflows

• Understanding the importance of translation
• Getting text on the page
• Choosing fonts and examining other design considerations
• Choosing the right workflow
• Working with one language per file
• Working with multiple languages running in one file
• Working with multiple languages in one file using layers
• Working with multiple languages in one file using conditional text
• Working with XML workflows

5. Outputting for Print

• Creating PDFs
• Outlining text as a last resort

6. Multilingual Digital Publications

• Multilingual EPUBs
• Multilingual DPS apps
• HTML export

Conclusion

• The next steps