Writing for International Trade
More Canadian businesses and government offices are actively building trade relationships beyond the United States — with the EU, the Gulf states, Asia, and beyond. FusionMD and PolyWrite both let you write in English or French, communicate fluently in your trading partner's language, and produce a document at the end of it — on your own Mac.
Write in the language you think in
Draft the substance of a trade proposal, briefing note, or letter of introduction in English or French — whichever you write most naturally in. Both apps' spelling, grammar, and vocabulary tools work the same way they do for any document; nothing about writing for an international audience needs to change how you draft. Use FusionMD if the document is headed toward a formal publication or report; PolyWrite for anything simpler — a letter, a briefing note, routine correspondence.
Translate to your partner's language
In FusionMD: open the right panel → Translation tab, choose the target language, and click Translate to New Document. This is Apple's on-device Translation framework only — no fallback, no cloud service involved under any circumstance.
In PolyWrite: open the AI panel (brain icon), find the Translate to row, choose your target language, and click Go.
Machine translation handles most business prose well either way. For anything going out under an official letterhead, review the translated draft yourself or have a native speaker check it before sending — the same practice any professional translation workflow follows, just without the cost and delay of an external service for routine correspondence.
Or write directly in your partner's language
If someone on your team writes Arabic, Mandarin, or any other language directly, neither app needs anything special — macOS handles the input (add the language in System Settings → Keyboard → Input Sources, no purchase required), and both apps carry it through spelling, formatting, and export like any other document. Right-to-left languages like Arabic get correct text direction automatically — in FusionMD once the document's language is set in the Metadata panel, in PolyWrite via the writing-direction toggle in the Rich Text toolbar.
From draft to a document you can actually send
A finished trade letter or briefing note rarely stays a plain text file. Both apps export a polished PDF for email or a Word document if your partner's office requires one. If it needs to become a properly laid-out printed brochure or report for an in-person meeting, FusionMD exports IDML directly into Affinity or InDesign — and a PolyWrite document gets there too, with one click via Open in FusionMD.
Who this is for
Correspondence and briefing materials for partners in markets you're newly building relationships with.
Proposals, product documentation, and follow-up correspondence with new international buyers and distributors.
Member communications and delegation materials for trade missions abroad.
For official or sensitive correspondence, on-device processing isn't a nice-to-have feature — it's the whole point.
One document, any language, still yours alone.
Write, translate, and publish — without a foreign server ever seeing what you wrote.