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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello Michael,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There are several issues you address here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>First, if you want to know how easy would it be to pull the translated output (in XML format) back into Frame for publishing as PDFs: it’s very easy – supposed your source for translation is XML authored in FrameMaker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But as you mention that your source files are Framemaker 7.2 it’s not recommended to go that way. Unless, of course, you have plenty of time to migrate your content to FrameMaker 10 and XML and to learn how to work with XML ….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On the other side, it’s also very easy to translate FrameMake files from English to Japanese. All you need is a translation provider who accepts Framemaker MIF files for translation. And to be honest, every serious localization provider should be able to cope with MIF, it’s natively supported in all translation tools (Trados, DejaVu, MemoQ, XTM, Transibar, Transit, etc etc). All you need after translation is a Windows system that supports Japanese.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact me off list if you need advise on translation vendors that can handle your files without problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards, vriendelijke groet,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wim Hooghwinkel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant, Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><a href="http://www.ditatools.com/"><span style='color:#C00000'>NLDITA Winter</span></a> 2011 – December<i> 2011 in Utrecht</i> – </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Special about localization and translation of DITA and XML content</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><a href="http://www.ditatools.com/"><span style='color:#C00000'>NLDITA Tools 2012</span></a> – April<i> 2012 in Utrecht</i> – Tools and best practices for Authoring, Managing and Publishing</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><a href="http://www.ie12.org/"><span style='color:#C00000'>NLDITA Information Energy 2012</span></a> – <i>june 2012 in Utrecht and Ghent</i> – DITA and topic based information development</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>tel. +31652036811</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Skype wimhooghwinkel</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>Twitter @idtp @NLDITA</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:olive'><a href="mailto:info@idtp.eu" title="blocked::mailto:info@idtp.eu"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#004080'>info@idtp.eu</span></a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>www.idtp.eu</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>www.nldita.nl</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>FrameMaker support: framemaker@idtp.eu</span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>