Download a localization kit

Once you generate a localization kit, you must retrieve it before you send it to your translation agency.

About this task

Your localization kit has the same name as the translation manifest and contains language manifests in the languages you selected during kit generation. You can access the zip file from My Kits/Imports page.

Procedure

  1. Go to My Kits/Imports page and locate the zip file output listed by the name of the translation manifest and the output type LocalizationKit.
  2. Click Download arrow to download the localization kit zip file to your local drive.
    Localization kit zip files have a specific naming convention in the following sequence:
    Localization kit zip file naming convention
    1. Filename of source map
    2. Authoring revision of source map
    3. Timestamp ID
    4. File type extension
    Each folder within the zip file contains a specified language folder, named according to the language code you selected.
    The language folder contains several files, such as image files with a naming convention in the following sequence, along with its sibling .image file:
    Localization kit image file naming convention
    1. Filename of image object
    2. Authoring revision of image object
    3. Language code
    4. Format name, such as LowRes, HiRes, or Source
    5. File type extension
    Each language folder inside the zip file contains the map and topic objects for that language.