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Filter Tools for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Wilhelm Polmann

Hi all,

I have developed some standalone applications so called Sysfillter tools.

The applications prepare texts which have been collected in Illustrator or Photoshop so that they can be processed in SDL Trados Studio. When the texts are ready, then the filter programs once again ensure that they are returned to their original format.

Interesting for SDL Trados Studio users are the filter tools for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Here a minimal description of the text transfer functions:

Sysfilter for Adobe Illustrator
- Automatic text transfer to XML, RTF, DOC or DOCX format.
- Program can be executed via command line.

Requirements: Adobe Illustrator must be installed on the PC

Sysfilter for Photoshop®
- Automatic text transfer to XML, RTF, DOC or DOCX format.
- Program can be executed via command line.

Requirements: Adobe Photoshop must be installed on the PC

My questions:
I like to know whether it would be possible to execute a programm from a plugin in SDL Trados Studio?

Example: calling of Sysfilter for Illustrator using the command line

call SysfilterAppPath\S4Illus.exe /c:\IllustratorFilesPath /exp /xml /conf d:\path\config.xml

Definition:
/exp = export command
/xml = output format
/conf = settings of a configuration file

Any hint? Or is this kind of automation rather part of the World Server product?Hmm

Best regards

Wilhelm
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  • Hi Wilhelm,

     

    Parsing text layers in Adobe file types is always a sticky subject, so this one sounds quite interesting!  How about a standalone application utilising the SDL Studio APIs? It would probably require preloading a batch of Adobe files and processing their translatable content into SDL Studio and round tripping back again.  There are standalone SDL Open Exchange apps already out there that do something similar such as SDL TTX It!;

    Roughly;

    1. Create new Project
    2. Specify languages
    3. Adobe files are added as a batch
    4. Text is extracted
    5. Studio project is created
    6. Pushes project to Studio
    7. Pushed back to converter when done in Studio
    8. Converter merges back into Adobe source files
    9. Also manages any subsequent context changes required from further review of Adobe files?

     

    You can access the latest SDL Studio API’s here;

    http://www.sdl.com/en/language-technology/sdl-openexchange/start-developing/default.asp

     

    Regards, Ian

     

    Ian Davies  |  Senior Product Manager | SDL | Language Technologies Division | 

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • in reply to Paul

    Thanks, Ian. I will check it.
  • in reply to Paul

    Hello everybody,

    This is interesting for me either.

    I also created tools parsing PSD and FLA files for translatable strings. I'm using the XLIFF format to export source strings from and import translated strings to PSD and FLA. It would be more than nice to extend the tools by adding an interface to Studio e.g. for autotranslate PSD/FLA files.

    I know how this would work in Trados 2007 and earlier, but I have no idea for Studio yet. So, I'll keep an eye on this discussion.

    Best

    Franz