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Here are more consolidated answers for the original question from
Jeff Muller (dn679@cleveland.Freenet.Edu):

     I am wondering if Aldus Pagemaker comes in different languages.  Are
     there special versions in French or Hebrew?  I would appreciate if you
     would send me some information on this topic.


Jeff
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Sender: Jon Wtte (d88-jwa@nada.kth.se)

Bjorn Fahller (fahller@ppc.ubc.ca) wrote:
> I know for certain that at least Pagemaker 4.0 for MS-Windows was
> translated to Swedish (and probably a lot of other languages as well).
> A friend of mine bought it and had some problems getting the US
> version he insisted on, since he (as well as I) have had some bad
> experiences with translated software.

Aldus has their own, extensive, in-house localization department.
Since they do it themselves, I think you can usually trust their
localized versions...

Another matter of fact is that localized page-layout programs
may word-wrap, hyphenate and line fill differently (and do, at least
in the Swedish/US case) To go to an extreme; localized versions of
Quark XPress DEMAND a certain keyboard layout per language,
so you can not do what I do (I have my own quasi-US, Quasi-Swedish
kayboard layout that toggles languages with Caps Lock)
- In my opinion, that's taking localization too far.


Sender: Bart Govaert (5679551@mcimail.com and 100010.3700@compuserve.com)
        Mendez Translations
	Brussels, Belgium

I am sure about the French version - We've done the translation and we even
use it ourselves - a sure sign of a succesfull localisation if ever there
was one. In French c'est 4.0, but that may not be the last version. Dunno
'bout Hebrew.
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