Wir hatten hier mal das Thema, dass ich Adobe die Übersetzungsprobleme geballt übermitteln wollte, die wir so kennen.

Jochen Uebel machte mich nun darauf aufmerksam, dass er ständig weitere Übersetzungskadaver findet, die am besten weiterhin zentral gesammelt und diskutiert werden sollten.

Die PDF-basierte Runde von damals ist längst gelöscht, also mache ich hier einen Blog-Beitrag auf, dessen Kommentar-Funktion zum Ergänzen und Diskutieren geeignet sein sollte.

Als Ausgangpunkt mein damaliger Bugreport an Adobe:

Here is my list, each in the order

english	german so far	german suggested	explanation
Document setup
Margin	Ränder	Stege	"Stege" is the german typographical word for "margin"
Gutter	Steg	Spaltenabstand	"Steg" is a margin, "Gutter" is a "Spaltenabstand"
Bleed	Anschnitt	Beschnittzugabe	Both "Anschnitt" and "Beschnittzugabe" are correct. Just be consistent
Printdialog
(Marks and Bleed) Bleed	Anschnitt	Beschnittzugabe	See above
(Setup) Tile	Druckseiten	Unterteilung	"Druckseiten" in this context has no apparent meaning. "Unterteilung" has, and had in several other programs
(Output) Text as Black	Text im Scharzen	Gesamten Text in schwarz drucken	"Text im Schwarzen" is not self-explanatory
(Graphics) Optimized Subsampling	Optimierte Abtastauflösung	„Schnell und schlecht“ or „Auflösung reduzieren“	"Optimized" sounds as if this was a good thing. It isn't. It's quick and dirty. In most cases just dirty. Don't make it sound good.
Type-Menu
Right Indent Tab	Tabulator für Einzug rechts	„Tabulator für rechte Ausrichtung“ or „Zeilenspalter“	"Zeilenspalter" is a common word for this character. If you want to have "Tabulator" in there somewhere, do not call it "Rechtsbündiger Tabulator" which is somthing else. „Tabulator für rechte Ausrichtung“ or "Tabulator zum Rechts-Austreiben" are more to the point.
Trademark	Symbol für Marke	Trademark	every German knows what a "trademark" is. "Symbol für Marke" is rather unclear.
Story (in all contexts)	Textabschnitt	Textfluss	"Textabschnitt" doesn't really mean anything. A paragraph is a section. A "Word" is a section as well. A story is the entity of all the text flowing through connected frames. Usually we call it "Textfluss" to indicate this.
(Type on Path Options) Spacing	Abstand	Ausgleich	"Abstand" is not really wrong. IOW this change is not important at all. The feature behind it changes the spacing depending on whether the text runs in a concave or convex curve, making it wider or tighter respectively. So "Ausgleich" is just a wee bit more to the point than "Abstand".
Redefine style when change all	Schnitt beim Ändern aller Instanzen neu definieren	Auch in Formatdefinitionen ändern	This must be one of those nightmares for any translator. The meaning of the english phrase is: you can change one font to another. There is a button "Change all" that changes every instance of that font to the substitute. If the option of this name is checked, the paragraph- and character-styles will be changed as well. IOW: style as in paragraph style, not as in font style.
Paragraph panel
(Dialog: Justify) Glyph Scaling	Glyphenabstand; Glyphenskalierung	"Abstand" is wrong. Not the distance is changed here but the width. "Glyphenbreite" would be correct as well, but "Glyphenskalierung" emphasizes the point: the characters are distorted.
(Dialog: Rules) Offset	Offset	Abstand zur Grundlinie	"Offset" is no german word. Not yet. In this case it is not necessary to speak englisch. In adding "to Grundlinie" you even do something more to explain the feature than the english version does
(Bullets & Numbering) Number	Zahl	Nummernformat	This is open to discussion. The option defines the form of the number of the numbered paragraph: "1.1" or "1-1" or "1.1." I think "Nummernformat" says this best. What do you think?
Characterpanel
Skew (Same in styles)	Verzerren	Neigen	"Verzerren" insinuates something like a perspective distortion. InDesign can't do those. Geometrically correct would be "Scheren" and "Scherung", but hardly anyone knows those words. So "Neigung" is closer to the truth then "Verzerren".
Textframeoptions
Gutter	Steg	Spaltenabstand	See Document Setup
Inset Spacing	Versatzabstand	Abstand zum Rahmen	"Versatzabstand" is tautological without saying anything, isn't it? "Abstand zum Rahmen" explains the feature nicely
Ignore Text Wrap	Keine Konturenführung	Vor Konturenführung schützen	It would be just as well to say "Konturenführung ignorieren". "Keine Konturenführung" is just a little bit too ambiguous
(First Baseline) Offset	Offset	Abstand	See above. No need to speak english here.
(First Baseline) Fixed	Fixiert	Fester Wert	That's the point: use a fixed value, no matter what.
(Baselinegrid: relative to:)	(Grundlinienraster: Relativ zu)
Top of Page	Oberem Seitenrand	Oberem Seitenrand;
Top Margin	Oberem Rand	Kopfsteg	This is simply its name. "top margin" is "Kopfsteg" in german
Top of Frame	Oberem Rahmenrand	Oberem Rahmenrand
Top Inset	Oberem Versatz	Oberem Abstand zum Rahmen	Not as nice as "Versatz", but if we drop "Versatz" above we need to drop it here as well
Text Wrap
Largest Area	Größte Fläche	Längere Zeile	"Largest area" is wrong. The area is irrelevant. Each line is inspected individually as to whether the left or the right side is longer. The phrase should say so
Relative to spine	Relativ zum Rücken	Relativ zum Bund	"Bund" is a better word for the border between left and right page
Object-Editing
Objectstyles	Objektstile	Objektformate	We have "AbsatzFORMATE" and "ZeichenFORMATE" and "TabellenFORMATE" and "ZellenFORMATE", but then we have "ObjektSTILE". No one understands why. It's the same thing...
View-Menu
Smart Guides	Magnetische Hilfslinien	Autom. Hilfslinien	All guides are magnetic. There is noting special at all about "magnetic" guides. But "smart" guides or "automatic" guides: that's special.
(Display Performance) Typical Display	Typische Anzeige	Normale Anzeige	Typical for what? What you want to say here is "This is the performance setting you would normally want to work in. "Normal" says it better than "Typisch"
Object Menu
Shear Angle	Verbiegungswinkel	Neigungswinkel	See same point in "character panel"
Shear	Verbiegen	Neigen
(Object > Paths) Join	Ecke	Verbinden	With this command you connect or join points. That the result my be a corner is not the point
(Object > Convert Point) Plain	Linienende	Einfacher Eckpunkt	The result will practically NEVER be at the end of a path. It will be an angle. "Schlichter Eckpunkt" or "Spitzer Eckpunkt" would be correct as well.
(Object > Convert Point) Corner	Ecke	Eckpunkt	"Corner" and "Smooth" are opposites, the two possible states of a point. It would be nice if the menu-items would suggest so by calling them "Eckpunkt" and "Kurvenpunkt"
(Object > Convert Point) Smooth	Glätten	Kurvenpunkt
(Object > Convert Point) Syymetric	Symmetrisch glätten	Symmetrischer Kurvenpunkt	"Symmetrisch glätten" is not wrong. "Symmetrischer Kurvernpunkt" is simply a bit more to the point
(Corner options) Fancy	Phantasie	Ornament	I always wondered about "Fancy". There is nothing "phantasievoll" about this corneroption. It is just a very, very plain "Ornament".
Transparency-Effects
(In all effects: ) Spread	Überfüllen	Verstärken	"Spread" is one of those words with several meanings. "Überfüllen" is a translation very specific to a certain process at print-time. When we talk about transparency "Überfüllen" is just misplaced. The meaning of "Push to the outside" is what is needed here. In effect, pushing to the outside makes the effect stronger. Thus my suggestion of "Verstärken"
(In all effects: ) Choke	Unterfüllen	Abschwächen	Same as "spread"
Pillow Emboss	Relief an allen Kanten	Kanten gemeißelt	"Relief an allen Kanten" is actually rather good, but I never got it. The visual effect of this effect is as if you chiselled along the stroke of the object. The center or fill of the object is neither raised nor lowered as with the plain "emboss" effect.
(Gradient Feather:) Gradient Stops	Verlaufsunterbrechungen	Verlaufspunkte	Wicked phrase in english. Nothing is interrupted here. A "stop" is where the gradient changes its colour.
Images
actual ppi	ppi tatsächlich	ppi Original	Even better would be "ppi vor Skalierung". An image has an inherent resolution, saved in the file. That's the "actual ppi". By scaling the image in InDesign you effectively change its resolution. That's the "effective ppi". Thus "ppi effektiv" is to the point but "ppi tatsächlich" is not. As little as "actual ppi" is in english.
Proxy	Proxy	Bildschirmversion	"Proxy" is an Unwort. It doesn't mean anything to your normal german person. Hard to find a word, though. A proxy is the version of an image that you see in "typical" mode, i.e. when you do not see all the resolution of the original highres image on disk. It's the fast, lowres version you usually use to just get an impression what the image shows.
ThisNThat
Script Labels	Skriptbezeichnung	„Skript-Label“ oder „Objekt-Label“	Even "Skript-Etikett" or "Objektname für Skripten". But "Skriptbezeichnung" does not say it, really.

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