Dear Ann Etienne,

probably, I have not correctly understood the problem you faced.

I regularly work on Adobe InDesign files (CS6, 2017 and latest 2018) and I never found any particular problem in loading, processing and exporting again translated files.

Granted that I use SDL Studio 2017 SR1 CU9 when dealing with Adobe InDesign files I set the IDML file filter as follows

and it works correctly.

Why are you talking about changing file extension as SDL Studio can directly import, process and export again IDML files?

Could you please be clearer?

Regards,

Claudio

Unknown said:

Why are you talking about changing file extension as SDL Studio can directly import, process and export again IDML files?

Could you please be clearer?

I believe it's just about changing file extension to ZIP to extract the internal XML to change the version... Just overcomplicated and unnecessary act (because "Process unsupportted file versions" option does the trick).

Hello, Claudio and Evzen,

so how I can export the translated IDML files from Trados to the InDesign format, please? 

Miriam 

There are some different ways to do that.

You can:

• use the finalize batch task to update the TM and create the target IDML file
• use the generate target translations batch task create the target IDML file
• use "Save target as" from the Editor to save the target IDML

However, you can NOT save any INDD file from Trados Studio. To have an INDD file you must open the IDML in InDesign and save from there as INDD. This is the only way a translation of InDesign files work.

Miriam 

There are some different ways to do that.

You can:

• use the finalize batch task to update the TM and create the target IDML file
• use the generate target translations batch task create the target IDML file
• use "Save target as" from the Editor to save the target IDML

However, you can NOT save any INDD file from Trados Studio. To have an INDD file you must open the IDML in InDesign and save from there as INDD. This is the only way a translation of InDesign files work.

Thank you very much!