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The Qt Linguist can be used to load different images depending on the language the application is running in. However, on the Qt website it says
Localizing images is not recommended.
Why is it not recommended? I don’t see the problem.
I can’t speak for
Qtspecifically, but as a programmer in the games industry where we have to deal with many languages and “graphical” assets, the main problem with localizing images is that the process of localizing an image is way more complicated than having a string procedurally added on top of a generic “background” image.Often, the translation companies will be dealing with
Excelspreadsheets of strings to translate. If you’re asking them to, for example, edit layers in Photoshop to add the translated text, I’m pretty sure your translating costs will explode.So, overall, images CAN be localized, but it’s rarely a good idea!