Language Convertion from English on drawings

[CADFlyer]

Our company creates our controlled prints in English. We retain a De-tached drawing on our local network & save a copy as a PDF to send to suppliers, customers, and internal facilities overseas where English is not the native language. They open them up (currently) in English, and are having trouble sometimes reading the prints.

Is there a way that the overseas facilities could open the PDF (or other type of file) in their native language instead of English?

Is there a better way to be doing this? how have others solved the language barrier?

 

[Updraft]

I think your best bet is to have a drawing template already setup in the non-English language. This will make it easy to deal with the titleblock and any standard notes. There is no automatic translation in SWX or Adobe that I am aware of so other non-titleblock text will have to be handled separately.

If you used standard drawing notes then perhaps you could include the standard note number and a macro might be able to detect that number to replace the English version with the translation.

And to thick outside the box a bit I wonder if one could insert a note or block that covered two different layers, one labeled English and one labeled for the other language. Then you could just toggle those layers. . .interesting concept. For that matter maybe have the two drawing formats on these two layers.

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