Ourada, Paul het geskryf:

> Samuel  het geskryf:

>> You'd have to hope the customer supplies it in a format that you can
>> feed to your translate tool. :-)

> Or you specify in your application documentation what the format should
> be.  :)  PNG should be more than sufficient for this purpose, and it is
> a FOSS format, and GIMP (also FOSS) supports it.

It is more than just the image file.  The image file has to be somehow 
linked to a specific location in the program, and each string should 
likewise the linked to those locations.  If the client simply creates 
PNGs without any way of knowing which PNG fits which dialog and which 
string fits which dialog, and if these two methods of "fitting" can't 
"speak to each other", then having a bunch of PNGs is pretty useless, 
don't you think?

For example, I might have a string "Tap with stylus to continue", and 
the client may have provided a screenshot of some dialog that has that 
text, but how do I know that the string I'm translating right now is the 
same string as the one in the screenshot?  What you really need, is a 
database in which one of the fields reference the particular screenshot.

Samuel



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