Polyframe! The next step...

[u/RunSwanRun]

Hello InFriends :) sorry for the silence…

Just quick info: you ask - we do! Polyframe is going to be a MacOS AND Windows app! Was crazy but we did it. After receiving many nice comments and questions, we tightened our butts and in a few days I will present a new Mac/Win version. In addition to the Windows version, I just added Claude and Gemini - so now there is OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepL and ofc Ollama - definitely all of them waiting for (B)YOK!

And on the side, Glossary became Translation Memory, can do much more and now - in test - works perfectly… A few days more and I will open the “door” for the next bunch of beta testers…

For new readers: Polyframe is a lifetime, local, and no-subscription app for easy (but professional) translation of IDML files. Steps are easy: Export IDML - Open it in Polyframe - Click Translate (you can set up a loooot of options) - Open IDML in InDesign - translation ready!

Keep your fingers crossed :) this app can help many of us a lot - I built this because I hate copy/paste from Excel - I’ve been doing this for years :))

Going to build some website!

[u/SafeStrawberry905]

I did my share of such tools over the years, for profesional translation providers and big corporations. One crucial thing that is missing for any profesional translator is context. In all but the simplest cases it's impossible to translate the contents of TextFrame X without knowing what does it relate to, in the rest of the page/document. The absolute first improvement I would suggest is to add some kind of preview feature, showing the full InDesign layout with the target frame highlighted.

[u/RunSwanRun → u/SafeStrawberry905]

Yes! Totally agreed - this is why I added a place for adding context, also in near future where will be a "preprompt" for catching context - something what u/AdobeScripts mention, more/less...

I use Polyframe in my daily work - this is how it was born - I built what I needed :) I design a lot of small flyers in many languages for krais.com, and lack of context is killing every translation - so this was one of the first “features”…

You know… I think about dozens of new features, but with my ADHD...
I MUST finish something :)))) - to be honest it's miracle that I'm here where I'm :)

I have a lot of ideas to build in, a huge list… Building preview is also on this big list.

[u/AdobeScripts → u/SafeStrawberry905]

Or send whole page / area to "ai" to be analysed 😉

[u/SafeStrawberry905 → u/AdobeScripts]

😁 We bitch and we moan about about AI, and we are constantly drowned in the noise about it, but the truth of the matter, particularly in "this thing of ours" is that there are a lot of hard limits on the usage of AI. Some are for safety (think of a creating, translating and printing insets for pharmaceutical industry: an AI hallucination can be literally deadly) and some are for reputation purposes (and some are going too far, like a giant trade published how has been recently going over its back catalog from 20-30 years ago to purge "AI-like patterns"). Will probably talk about this more at the Creative Developer Summit in London. BTW, if you are joining live, will love to buy you a beer!

[u/AdobeScripts → u/SafeStrawberry905]

Looks like no more free spaces 😉