Intro

The CHILI publish Illustrator plugin can be localised to your language. By default, these languages are covered:

• English

• German

• French

• Dutch

• Italian

You can add languages, and even update the wording used in your language.

Localization structure

The language tekst and messages of the Illustrator plug-in are loaded from a set of text files located in Converter/Locale.

By default, the Locale folder contains the following files:

• Languages.txt

• en.txt

• de.txt

• fr.txt

• nl.txt

• it.txt

The Languages.txt file provide a list of languages in the form <CODE>=<DESCRIPTION> where code should be a valid language code, with the following default configuration:

en=English
fr=Français
de=Deutsch
nl=Nederlands
it=Italiano

This list is the source for the "Language" dropdown located in Preferences pane. When the plug-in language is set to "Default", Adobe Illustrator will try to use the language corresponding to the operating system language.

For each of the languages listed in Languages.txt, a language txt file must be present. Language file contains name/value lines for each plug-in string:

SERVER_TAB=Server
PRESET=Preset
REMOVE=Remove
URL=Url
...

How to add a language translation for the Illustrator plug-in

1. Add a line in Languages.txt (eg es=Spanish)

2. Copy en.txt and rename it to the required language (eg. es.txt)

3. Translate the text in the new text file

4. Reload the plugin

Only translate the part after the “=” (equal sign). The part before the “=” sign, is the identifier we need for the application.