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Translating LCD forms

StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368

Does anyone have experience with getting forms done in LiveCycle Designer out for translation then back in again without having to build the form all over again by hand?

Example:
Build an English form.
Get the content of the form ie. captions, text etc. out and to the translator.
Import the translated form back into LiveCycle Designer.
Make any tweaks and adjustments that need to be made.

StevenD

StevenD

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LiveCycle Designer, Windows
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Check my example for multilingual forms.

[url]http://thelivecycle.blogspot.com/2010/01/multiligual-forms.php[/url]

radzmar
LoveCycle Blog
Documents you need:
LiveCycle Designer ES2 Docs

StevenD
Registered: Oct 6 2006
Posts: 368
Thanks for the reply radzmar. That is a great concept and something I'm going to hang on to for future reference. This would be great once I had the form translated in how ever many languages I need it translated into. \

However what I am looking for is a way to get everything in my English forms that need to be translated into another language out from my form and into the hands of a translator be it Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch etc. and have them translate then I want to be able to easily bring it back into a copy of my English form replacing whatever is in English.

Since LiveCycle forms are XML forms I am wondering is there is a way to get the XML that shows in the XML tab out to a translator to translate.

StevenD

radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
I won't say this is impossible, but it definitly will need a lot of programming.

You will need a online translator with an API that you can trigger from within the PDF/XFA-form.
If this is working proper, then you can use a function (like in my example), that references all the field properties and returns the translated captions, text etc.
I think this can become very, very complicated depending on the form structure and size and it allways needs a internet connection.

radzmar
LoveCycle Blog
Documents you need:
LiveCycle Designer ES2 Docs