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Adobe InDesign is the way to go if you've already got it (It's not cheap). There's a lot you can do with it, but learning the basics is easy enough. There's als
by proexploit 16y ago
Adobe InDesign is the way to go if you've already got it (It's not cheap). There's a lot you can do with it, but learning the basics is easy enough. There's also plenty of great looking InDesign templates available on the internet. OpenOffice could be used I suppose but that's going to be more trouble than it's worth.
My recommendation: Hire someone off oDesk or purchase a premium template for InDesign. I'm not sure exactly hat you mean by seperating layout from content. Anytime the content changes by a reasonable amount it's going to need adjustments of the design no matter what program you use.
- davidw 16y agoThe idea is to be able to basically shop out the translations and be able to easily flow them into the resulting document. If he wants to change the layout, then it's easy to regenerate all the various translations, too, rather than going in and changing it for each and every one.
- proexploit 16y agoWhy not do it as HTML/CSS then? The design only has to be done once and the translations could be imported via XMl or PHP includes or something. That would allow for a bit of a fluid layout and give you a web version automatically as well. The only problem I see is that if you translate to say, Chinese, I'm guessing you'll send up with a lot fewer characters and trying to fit it in the same design might not look very good.
- davidw 16y agoThey want pretty rigid control over the printed docs that come out of the whole thing. Is there a way to generate a PDF from HTML in a predictable way like that?