Hello,
My wife is a freelance designer & im a software developer. We worked together on one of her freelance assignments which involved transcreation of indesign document in variuous languages.
I wrote software which would export all the text content from indesign idml file to excel sheet. Any one can edit these excel sheets & software will be able to merge it back and create new idml file from it. Basically its easier to export and import text back in to idml files.
Heres use case : Take idml file , export all text content to excel sheet with just click of a button and send it to translators/proofreaders/editors. When they are done with it - simply merge it back in to original idml file within seconds (without graphic designer spending time on copy-n-pasting in to indesign file)
I think this can reduce indesign text copy-n-paste job time by 90%
I would like to know is there any market for such utility & would it make any sense to develop it any furthur.
Thanks.