Print Interlinear

Question

It would be a nice benefit if I could print/create PDF of my interlinearized text (receptor language with English back translation). But I can’t seem to find a way to do that, and haven’t seen a discussion about it here. Has anyone else tried this, or looked into it? Thanks!

Answer 1

I am able to print my Interlinearizer window. Make sure it is in focus, then go to File> Print. That should allow you to print to PDF, or save as HTML. Even though the Interlinear window only shows a single verse, when I print it, it prints the entire chapter. To print to PDF, you’ll have to make sure that your computer can print to PDF. Most computers I’ve seen have a ‘Microsoft Print to PDF’ listed under their available printers.

Comments

Thanks! I had only tried Print Draft, which doesn’t work with the Interlinearlizer. But your method of Printing to a PDF worked for me. I wish is could do a whole book rather than just a chapter though.

I wonder if it’s worth suggesting as a development? Or maybe it would be nicer looking and more helpful to be able to use the Print Draft feature but with two parallel versions (i.e. the target text and the BT text side by side or inline). Does anyone else think that would be helpful?

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Glad to help.
It would be nice to print more than one chapter. The main project window has View>By Chapter, but the Interlinear window doesn’t have anything like that. I was printing a Compare Texts window today, as a PDF, and that has a pop-up which gives you options like “By Chapter”, which you can untick to print the whole book. Of course printing the interlinear window is going to be much longer, but that’s not a big deal if you’re printing to PDF. So possibly they could give us a popup when we print the Interlinearizer which has some of these options like printing the whole book.

The last part of your comment sounds like printing a sort of diglot draft. I couldn’t find any way to do that sort of thing. My first thought was to use MS Word to make a sort of diglot using columns, but you can’t easily use columns this way in Word. It would be a neat addition to Print Draft for the future. Probably someone here could let us know an easy workflow for producing something like this outside of Paratext.

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I had to put a portion of interlinear text from Paratext into a Power Point presentation and also as part of a printed handout. I struggled with the built in methods and finally settled on this procedure:

1. “Print” the interlinear chapter from Paratext, and export to HTML

1a. open the HTML: If you want to use only a few verses from the chapter (I did, only the “Samaritan” story from Luke 10) So I opened the HTML file in Notepad ++ and found the verse markers, then deleted the verses that I did not want. Be careful to leave the appropriate HTML codes that buffer the text that you are keeping … .

2. Open the HTML file in a browser (Chrome) and adjust the text size (ctrl+ ctrl-)
3. “Print” to PDF from Chrome
4. Open the PDFs in Photoshop (one page at a time), copy paste into a page layout that worked for me, “flatten image”, Image adjustment > levels, change the middle input level from 1.00 to 0.16 (this darkens the grey for the morpheme breaks and glosses). Save as PDF (again).

It’s really a kludge, a work-around. Print to PDF (with some formatting and page-layout controls) would have helped.

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Stephen+Katt:

My first thought was to use MS Word to make a sort of diglot using columns, but you can’t easily use columns this way in Word.

No, columns won’t work.* But I think a table would:

Simplest: make a table with two columns and paste one language in each column. Fiddle with the font size, line spacing or table column widths to make the verses in the two translations roughly line up .

One step up: make rows in the table, and paste each chapter (or section; or paragraph) into a row: this will improve the alignment.

I also use this method when translating ordinary documents, particularly when the final document should contain both languages. Put the text in column 1, and translate in column 2. Start a new row for, e.g., every numbered point in a contract of employment; or for every paragraph.

* Columns in Word or desktop publishing software are designed for text that you want to flow as follows:

• Page 1, column 1;
• Page 1, column 2;
• Page 2, column 1;
• Page 2, column 2;
• etc.

Therefore, they are useless for displaying two texts side-by-side.