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AI files | A Trados 2024/2021 plugin to translate Adobe Illustrator .AI files

Wei Jiang — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:03:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: Wei Jiang
Post title: A Trados 2024/2021 plugin to translate Adobe Illustrator .AI files

Hi everyone,
For those looking for a professional way to translate .ai files, my team has developed an automated tool that extracts Illustrator text directly into XLIFF.
This allows you to open the file natively in Trados Studio and perform a back-insertion once translated. The system also includes DTP features like composite-font-like "font-mapping" —a major time-saver for Western-CJK projects.
How to try it: Simply install the Tokr Hub Desktop application directly from the Microsoft Store using this link:
[url removed]
The Hub will automatically take care of installing the Trados plugin and managing the licensing for you.
You can learn more and see the technical details here: [url removed]
Best,
Wei

AI files | The objective is to keep the format !

Mohamed Mehenoun — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:35:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: Mohamed Mehenoun
Post title: The objective is to keep the format !

[quote]DZiW wrote:

I just renamed it as .PDF (not .AI) and processed as one.

Cheers [/quote]

As a pdf you'll need to OCR it and it won't render well afterwards !

Thanks for your suggestion :)

AI files | PDF

DZiW (X) — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:54:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: DZiW (X)
Post title: PDF

I just renamed it as .PDF (not .AI) and processed as one.

Cheers

AI files | Doesn't work !

Mohamed Mehenoun — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: Mohamed Mehenoun
Post title: Doesn't work !

[quote]ahmed maher wrote:

Hi,

I have just read a bout a new software that can convert Illustrator files it is from
[url removed]
You can download the trial version of transmissions for Illustrator directly from this website to convert your Illustrator files, then you can fellow their instructions.
Please update us with results.

Ahmed Maher [/quote]

Salam,

It doesn't work ! Probably because I'm using CS5 but I found an interesting plugins that makes using right-to-left languages easier without requiring the ME version of Illustrator. It's called indic plus and does the trick pretty well.

Thanks a lot for your help brother.

Best regards,

Mohamed

AI files | Convert it

Ahmed Maher — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:40:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: Ahmed Maher
Post title: Convert it

Hi,

I have just read a bout a new software that can convert Illustrator files it is from
[url removed]
You can download the trial version of transmissions for Illustrator directly from this website to convert your Illustrator files, then you can fellow their instructions.
Please update us with results.

Ahmed Maher

AI files

Mohamed Mehenoun — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:18:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: AI files
Poster: Mohamed Mehenoun

Hello,

I have some files in the AI format (Adobe Illustrator) and I was wondering if there was a way to work on them directly with SDL Trados Studio 2009 or at least convert them to a format that I could use with Trados Studio.

Thanks !

Regards,

Mohamed