Hello! I was wondering if anyone on the list had some experience in matters relating to the translation of print documents to the web in such a way that formatting is preserved.
Essentially, we're trying to move books from print/InDesign/Corel formats to the Web, with each page as a high res JPEG. These being illustrated books, we want to preserve the layout and formatting in the translation and mark the coordinates of text spaces within the EXIF data such that we can then overlay text in different languages from translations done on the 'web. Assuming we were able to mark the text box as co-ordinates, either manually or via EXIF what would we do about the background colour and the existing text? If we mark it as a text box with white background, it would be sub-optimal and if we float the new text over it, with a transparent background, the old text will still show. One possible way is to create the JPEGs of the pages from the InDesign/Corel master without the text but again, some automated method would be ideal. Would anyone know of a method or a company that could help with this? Thank you. Best, Gautam
