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Oliver.Kilb · 2009-09-01 10:54:43

RESOLVED

When I try to localize the Text labels for the player via

Theme Editor > Modify Text Labels > Language > Japanese

the list for "Buttons/ Messages" and "Custom Text" is shown correctly in Japanese.

After publishing, however, all labels are being shown in german (I'm sitting in front of a german Windows XP).

Moreover, every time I re-open the "Player Text Labels" window (which opens after you click on "Modify Text Labels"), the selected choice is english again!?!?

How can I publish content so that all labels are being displayed in japanese?

I'm using Presenter 7.0.5 and I have access to a Connect 7 server.

Thanks in advance!

Jorma_at_RealEyes · 2009-09-01 14:06:03

Presenter maintains a language file that has all the text labels as part of the published presentation. The player skin text that appears is based solely on the language of the OS that you are running. Thus, being in a German OS, you see German. Being in an English OS, I would see English. Have someone on a Japanese OS open your presentation and validate this, but that should be the behavior of Presenter.

Oliver.Kilb · 2009-09-02 00:21:13

If that's true, then I'm really upset (don't dare to write what I'm feeling right now because I'd be banned...)!!!

Is there no way to force the player to display a specific language? Where I work we have lots of people that are sitting on a german OS, but need to see the presentations in english, japanese and so on. If forcing a language won't work, Presenter is useless for us.

This is not even a flaw, this is a severe design-bug if there's no work-around!

Thanks for your answer, Jorma - I hope there is a workaround for me.

By the way: Uploading to our connect-server and marking the language of the material as japanese had no effect.

Regards from Munich,
Oliver

Jorma_at_RealEyes · 2009-09-02 09:17:29

ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Yes when uploading to the server, your language choice there has no effect because of how Presenter works.

There are 2 workarounds that I can think of, but there may be others... I'll have to reach out to Rob for any other options, but here are the two I can think of:

1. Change the text in the "German" section to English, Japanese, or whatever, so When Presenter detects the German OS, it displays what it thinks is the German text. You could go into the language.xml file for Presenter and do this change as well.

2. You may be able to figure out changing the settings of the vconfig.xml file in the Data folder of the out put of Presenter, but I'm not sure that would work... this is just a shot in the dark.

I'll get Rob to weigh in as he may have found some other creative solution.

Jorma_at_RealEyes · 2009-09-03 10:09:18

Ok Oliver,

I double checked with the Rob and the answer is still pretty much the same. In the end the best solution would probably be to change the language on your OS (can be done but affects more than just your presenter output), or to put the Japanese text in the German language section. This should show you the appropriate language.

I'll experiment with removing other languages from the xml file that Presenter uses to hold all the text labels in the different languages and see if that works.

Oliver.Kilb · 2009-09-09 07:56:53

Hi Jorma,

sorry for not answering sooner.

Indeed your solution was perfect! Once I changed in the vconfig.xml the tag <language id="ja"> to <language id="de"> (and vice versa), everything ran as expected: On my German OS I see japanese labels - hurray!

Thanks for your suggestion!

In addition, I got the feedback that indeed on a japanese system all label texts are being shown as expected (in japanese).

But Adobe, if you're reading: Please add a feature to Presenter 8 that any given language can be forced on the label texts!

Cheers,
Oliver

Last edited by Oliver.Kilb (2009-09-09 08:20:11)

aragon · 2009-09-13 19:51:28

Oliver, another solution that I just tested was to delete all the other languages in in the vconfig.xml file of the published presentation and only leave the "ja" for Japanese. (delete everything and including the labels <language id= & </language> )
When I run the index.htm file, it plays with the Japanese labels on my English XP.
When I moved FR to be the top language followed by DE and deleted all others, my presentation was with French labels, so the default seems to be the first language if it is different to the OS.

Oliver.Kilb · 2009-09-15 06:00:22

Thank you - excellent hint!

Jorma_at_RealEyes · 2009-10-08 09:48:04

Glad to hear that we found some solutions for this. Not perfect, but better than nothing!

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#1 2009-09-01 10:54:43

Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#2 2009-09-01 14:06:03

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#3 2009-09-02 00:21:13

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#4 2009-09-02 09:17:29

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#5 2009-09-03 10:09:18

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#6 2009-09-09 07:56:53

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#7 2009-09-13 19:51:28

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

#8 2009-09-15 06:00:22

Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

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Re: Theme not localized: Cannot publish in japanese

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