16.07.2020

The Memsource files can be easily translated in SDL Studio, if you can work with them offline. However, some minor settings are required in Studio. 1) Open File 2) Go to Options 3) Select File Types – XLIFF In the right-hand pane find File Dialog Wildcard Expression. After the specified file extensions put a semi-colon Read more…

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11.07.2020

Sometimes it so happens that font size in a document opened for translation in SDL Studio is way too small or too big. Changing font size in the source document has no result. It is really too hard to work with such document. SDL Studio does a have a capability to change the font size, Read more…

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20.09.2016

Will you agree that translating a PDF using translation memories remains quite a controversial challenge even when we have superpower SDL Studio, MemoQ, SmartCAT and others that can handle such type of files? Both editable and non-editable. The output quality often leaves much to be desired. It is quite difficult to format the translated text Read more…

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21.12.2015

The previous post was about creating a project in SDL Studio to work with several files. After the translation is done, it will have to be exported from the Studio and delivered to the Client in the original format. Depending on what your client requires, you can export the ready file in the original format Read more…

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25.10.2015

A lot of translators know how to translate a single document in SDL Studio. However, what would you do if you have several documents on the same subject from the same client? The best solution will be to create a project. This way you will not have to select a TM and a termbase every Read more…

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02.09.2015

In my previous blog post I wrote about how to connect TMX file to your SDL Studio project. Как подключить файл TMX к проекты SDL Studio Here I would like to draw to your attention to one small thing. Namely if you had worked on similar project before and have your own translation memory when Read more…

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19.07.2015

Another issue I would like to write about is numbering pages in MS Word. You seem to remember where the Insert page number button is located but every time when formatting your translations, certain difficulties arise, either the number persists on the cover page and won’t go, or odd and even pages are numbered similarly, Read more…

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16.04.2015

I remember back in 2001 when I started working with Word (Do you remember Pentium 486 and Office 97? We did not have any CATs then and had to translate everything manually simply retyping the text in Russian), I had questions as to what to do with documents with different page layout. That was quite Read more…

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23.03.2015

One day one of my fellow translators came over to me asking to help him with a table of contents. After a couple of questions, it was clear he was working on an OCR-ed file. The problem is that TOC in such files is a plain text and in order to set the page number Read more…

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02.03.2015

Quite often nowadays, I have to translate pictures. For this purpose, I use text boxes covering the original drawing, which is quite effective. At least it is better sometimes than to translate them in a graphic editor like Photoshop or Gimp. If the picture however is congested with graphics it becomes quite problematic to fit Read more…

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