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InDesign Multilingual Translation Destroys Layout and Styles

Translating Adobe InDesign documents using generic translation tools strips out layout-critical elements like styles, anchors, and paragraph tags, requiring complete manual reformatting after each translation. Language length differences like German expanding 30% further break layouts without overflow detection.

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