Tips for Multilingual Desktop Publishing

First, check whether the correct paragraph and character styles are applied to the translated text. Make sure the assigned font supports the target language properly. Then, activate Preflight (Window → Output → Preflight) to detect overset text quickly. If necessary, adjust text frames manually or enable Auto-Size for text frames under Text Frame Options to allow controlled expansion.

Open the Preflight panel and enable it for your document. Click on the overset text warning to jump directly to the affected frame. You can then resize the text frame, reduce tracking slightly, or adjust paragraph spacing. For recurring issues, review your paragraph styles and baseline grid settings.

Open Type → Find Font to review all fonts used in the document. Replace missing or substituted fonts with the correct ones manually. Make sure all required fonts are installed locally before opening the IDML file. Avoid mixing font families unnecessarily to reduce substitution risks.

Go to File → Export and choose Adobe PDF (Print). Select a preset recommended by your printer or use PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 if required. Enable bleed and crop marks under Marks and Bleeds, and make sure your document bleed is set correctly. Always review the exported PDF before sending it to print.

Use paragraph styles for all bullet lists instead of manual formatting. Check the Bullets and Numbering settings inside the paragraph style. Avoid using special characters as bullets unless they are part of the font set. After translation, reapply the paragraph style to reset formatting cleanly.

First, you need to choose the text that appears incorrectly formatted. In this case, this is the text that has the wrong color in our desktop publishing project. Once the text frame is selected, hover over to the left side to your Tools panel. You will see two colored boxes overlapping each other. One of them is the fill color, which typically changes the filling of an object or text. The other one is the stroke color, which makes it possible to draw the edges of a colored box in a different color for instance. Right below these colored boxes, you will see a square icon and a T letter. If you click the square icon, you can change the color of the frame itself, meanly the background of the text frame. If you click on the T letter icon, you select the text itself. Once you click on the T icon, you can now change the color and it will be applied to the Text selected. That's it! Good job.

Choose the text frame that you no longer want to hyphenate. Now all you need to do is to go to the Paragraph panel. Paragraph panel is located under Type & Tables, which you can also open by using Ctrl + Alt + T (on Windows). On the Paragraph panel, uncheck Hyphenate checkbox at the bottom. Voila! The selected text frame will no longer be hyphenated.