User manual SYMANTEC WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 7.0 SP2 REFERENCE FOR WISE INSTALLATION EXPRESS V1.0

[. . . ] Windows Installer Editor Reference Windows Installer Editor The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 7. 0 SP2 Legal Notice Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Altiris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] Select Installation Expert > Languages page. The Language Strings dialog box appears. From Language, select the language for which you will replace all text strings. At the bottom left of the Language Strings dialog box, click Import. The Import Language Strings dialog box appears. In Translated Strings File, specify the name of the file that contains the translated text strings for the new language. Make sure the Do not compare with current strings option is marked. You only need to compare strings when you import strings you add or change after you have imported all strings. Click OK. 8. Windows Installer Editor Reference 256 Translating an Installation The translated text strings are imported into the installation and you can translate the installation to the new language. See Creating a Translated . MSI on page 249 and Creating a Language Transform on page 250. Importing All Text Strings With the New Language Wizard You can use the New Language wizard to import text strings at the same time you define a new language on the Languages page. Do this only when you already have a file containing translated text strings for the language you are adding. Example: If you added the language Swiss French to a previous installation, and now you want to use it in a new installation, you can use the New Language wizard to import Swiss French translations to the new installation. Note A better way to make a new language available for multiple installations is to add it to an installation template instead of to a specific installation. See Creating and Editing Installation Templates on page 49. You might also use this process to restore a language that you deleted from the Languages page. You must have access to the original file that contains the translated text strings. This process does not restore any custom translated text. Typically, you do not have a translated text file at the time you define a new language. Instead, you use the New Language wizard to define a new language and export text strings to a file, you have the file translated, and you import the translated strings at a later time. See Defining and Translating Into Additional Languages on page 253. To import all text strings with the New Language wizard 1. Select Installation Expert > Languages page. The New Language wizard appears with the Specify Language Details page. [. . . ] Do not change this property unless you change the location of this file. If an installation includes the Windows Installer runtime, this is the version of the included Windows Installer. You set an installation to include the Windows Installer runtime on the Prerequisites page. Contains the error text that is displayed if the destination computer does not have enough free disk space to copy the . MSI database to its local disk drive. [. . . ]