Localization Tool for Microsoft Visio Files

Microsoft Visio is a widely used tool among technical writers. It is typically used for drawing charts and figures that are part of a wider set of documentation. When the documentation is localized usually also charts and figures need to be localized. This applies to the Visio drawings too; these images typically contain texts that need translation. More importantly the drawings tend to contain texts that are crucial for understanding the documentation as a whole.

Translation of Visio drawings often requires additional step in the documentation translation process because it is in different format compared with the rest of the documentation. Therefore the translation may cause a lot of extra, and often repetitive manual, work. However, it doesn't have to be so.

Multilizer localization tool can be augmented with a special Visio scanner plug-in that adds support for the localization of Visio drawings. The user simply needs to specify the Visio file to translate and Multilizer localization tool picks all the texts to translate from the file.

Translation is done inside Multilizer, along with all productivity features; online translation outsourcing, translation memory, machine translation, spelling check, translation references, etc. The translated Visio drawing is written to another file so the original drawing is not modified.

One Multilizer localization project file can contain any number of Visio drawings. If the drawings contain duplicated texts, Multilizer translates them automatically.

With Multilizer the translation of Visio files becomes more productive and it also streamlines the localization process. Now the Visio files can be translated with exactly the same process and procedures as the other documentation and various software formats. This saves overhead cost and also enhances translation reuse and makes quality better.

To save time and money, localize Microsoft Visio drawings together with other formats, with a single localization tool and within a single localization project.