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Quick Add New Term function - how does it work? | The window is auto-hiding

July 12, 2016, 2:56 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Quick Add New Term function - how does it work?
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: The window is auto-hiding

Hi Dan and Heloisa

You can't avoid having the window opening, but as it is set to auto-hide by default, it will - as Dan pointed out - retract as soon as you move your cursor out of it.

This is by purpose because it gives you the possibility to do a quick visual check on the result of the "Quick Add Term" process . If everything is OK, simply move your cursor out of the window and it will immediately close.

Walter
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Error in TM - Trados 2011 and 2015 | Why do you send the a TM?

July 12, 2016, 2:58 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Error in TM - Trados 2011 and 2015
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: Why do you send the a TM?

Hi Martin

TM exports should be fully compatible between all versions of Studio, but the main question is "why you are doing this".

The proper way would be to send them your bilingual SDLXLIFF file, so they can import it into their TM (or open it in the Editor first for review if they wish to do so).

Walter
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Trados custom non-translated bar | You would need first to define what a "page" is

July 12, 2016, 3:01 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Trados custom non-translated bar
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: You would need first to define what a "page" is

Tomasz

The problem is that a page is not a standard measurement. It can hold different numbers of characters depending on country/region, etc.

Walter
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Multilingual translation memory

July 12, 2016, 4:00 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Multilingual translation memory
Poster: TarusinDmitry

Hello everyone.

Apologize in advance for may be dumb question, but it emerged and I'm confused.

So: Is it possible to create a working multilingual translation memory in Trados 2014?
That is, which will include one source language and several target languages (example: English - Chinese, Japanese, Lithuanian, and others)

Thank you very much!
Dmitriy
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preliminary translation | Run the batch task "Pretranslate"

July 12, 2016, 6:49 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: preliminary translation
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: Run the batch task "Pretranslate"

If you created a project and assigned a TM to the project, then pretranslation is accomplished automatically during the "Prepare" task, which means that you should see all 100% matches inserted already.

You can however run this task again at any time by going to "Batch task - Pretranslate".

Walter
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About bugs in Sdl Trados 2015 | What do you call a bug?

July 12, 2016, 6:59 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: About bugs in Sdl Trados 2015
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: What do you call a bug?

I guess that the judgment whether a bug is "dramatic" or not is very individual. When you say that Studio 2011 has problem merging segments, I assume you mean the fact that one cannot merge segments across "hard returns" (paragraph boundaries). This is not a bug, but a design decision of SDL and this has not changed in Studio 2015.

Having said this, the current Studio 2015 SR2 is very stable and does not have "dramatic" bugs as far as I am aware.

Concerning PDFs, Studio includes an integrated PDF conversion tool, which is customisable. The quality of the output depends - as with any PDF conversion tool - mainly on the type of PDF document. You may need to "clean" the WORD file resulting from the conversion before you start translating it in Studio if you want to have a clean document with not too many tags. But this is not a problem of Studio, but inherent to the conversion of PDFs, which should remain an exception. Remember that PDF is not an editable format, so you should always try to get the editable format that existed before the PDF was created.

Walter
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part numbers / prices for a catalog | You may "lock" these segments

July 12, 2016, 7:04 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: part numbers / prices for a catalog
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: You may "lock" these segments

Kai

If these segments do not need to be translated, I suggest you use the display filter to show them, then select them all and lock them. This will prevent them from getting any text inserted in the target segment and the target document will contain your source text.

Do this before you start the translation of the rest of the document.

Walter
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Client cannot generate target text | This is due to the new Word filter

July 12, 2016, 7:12 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Client cannot generate target text
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: This is due to the new Word filter

Hi

Studio 2015 uses a new Word filter called "Microsoft Word 2007-2016". If you enable this filter (which is the case by default) and send the resulting SDLXLIFF to someone who uses an older version of Studio, which does not have this filter, this person can translate the SDLXLIFF, but cannot do a preview nor generate the target. This is due to the fact that his Studio does not have the new Word filter that has been used to generate the SDLXLIFF. But if this person returns the SDLXLIFF to you, you can generate the target in Studio 2015 without any problem.

If this happens often, you may work around the problem by disabling the new Word filter in your Studio 2015 or simply by changing the order of precedence. In "Files - Options - File types", move the file type "Microsoft Word 2007-2016" below the file type "Microsoft Word 2007-2013". This will cause Studio to use the older Word filter for .DOCX files.

You may also create a separate project template for this scenario, so that you don't need to change the settings all the time.

Walter
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Client cannot generate target text | Already disabled

July 12, 2016, 7:18 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Client cannot generate target text
Poster: dropinka
Post title: Already disabled

Thank you, Walter. However, I had already disabled the filter and nothing had changed. I'll now try moving it below 'Microsoft Word 2007-2013' while keeping it disabled, although I doubt that it can make a difference. But never say never!
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Framemaker 7 MIF in Studio 2015 | I guess, you meant ...

July 12, 2016, 7:21 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Framemaker 7 MIF in Studio 2015
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: I guess, you meant ...

... "File - Legacy DTP formats".

Just in case someone wants to use this and searches:-)

Walter
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Accents not displaying properly in target content | Studio does not use Mac fonts

July 12, 2016, 7:30 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Accents not displaying properly in target content
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: Studio does not use Mac fonts

Gabriel

As Studio is a Windows program and runs in a VM under Parallels, it uses the fonts installed in Windows and does not care at all about the fonts you have installed on the Mac.

I guess that your problem must be related, as you suggested, to the fact that your Windows installation is missing some default fonts.

You can change the font used by Studio by going to "File - Editor - Font Adaptation". You can choose the font to be used separately for each language.

I suggest you select a font for your target language of which you are sure that it does exist in your Windows and see if that makes a difference.

Walter
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preliminary translation | Thanks

July 12, 2016, 7:39 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: preliminary translation
Poster: sidlejinx
Post title: Thanks

It works. Thanks
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Quick Add New Term function - how does it work? | Window auto-hiding

July 12, 2016, 7:52 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Quick Add New Term function - how does it work?
Poster: Heloísa Helena Benetton Costa
Post title: Window auto-hiding

Thank you sirs!

Indeed if you set the window to Auto-Hide it works fastly. I really like the Terminology Window to be open all the time, but I can live without it! :-)

Again, thank you very much, you helped me a lot!

Have a wonderful day!

Heloisa
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Error in TM - Trados 2011 and 2015 | response

July 12, 2016, 9:21 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Error in TM - Trados 2011 and 2015
Poster: martintrad
Post title: response

Hi, Walter. Thanks for answering.

I sent them a .sdltm file, not a .SDLXLIFF. Could this be it?

Thanks again,
Martín.
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Compatibility with Open Office

July 12, 2016, 9:54 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Compatibility with Open Office
Poster: Serena Tutino

Hi,
I have to buy a new laptop and I would like to know if Trados 2011 and 2015 is compatible with Open Office. I would not buy a Microsoft Office licence in that case.

Thanks!
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About bugs in Sdl Trados 2015 | ...

July 12, 2016, 10:40 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: About bugs in Sdl Trados 2015
Poster: Miguel Carmona
Post title: ...

[quote]Walter Blaser wrote:

When you say that Studio 2011 has problem merging segments, I assume you mean the fact that one cannot merge segments across "hard returns" (paragraph boundaries). This is not a bug, but a design decision of SDL and this has not changed in Studio 2015.[/quote]

There is a nice workaround (I am sure Walter knows it, he clearly being an advanced user), which I learned from Emma Goldsmith (thank you Emma!) some time ago. This workaround has been extremely useful to me many times.

You simply cut the text from the second segment and paste it in the first one, by using the “Edit Source” command for both operations.

Here is the link to Emma's workaround, under Source Segment Editing:
[url removed]

[Edited at 2016-07-12 19:12 GMT]
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Compatibility with Open Office | Studio can handle Open Office Documents but ...

July 12, 2016, 11:10 am
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Compatibility with Open Office
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: Studio can handle Open Office Documents but ...

... the question is rather which document formats you get for translation.

If your customers send you Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, ...) for translation, you will be able to translate them but not to preview them if you don't have Microsoft Office installed on your PC.

The decision whether you need Microsoft Office does basically not depend on your personal needs in terms of creating documents but rather on the requirements of your customers.

Walter
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Save target as... NOT WORKING

July 12, 2016, 12:09 pm
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Save target as... NOT WORKING
Poster: Karina Garcia Pedroche

Hi all,

I've translated an MS Word file in Trados Studio 2015 and tried to save the target file, but Trados generates the same source file in the source language. My client is waiting for his file and I don't know how to solve this, as I've never had this issue before. Any idea of what may be the problem?

Regards, Karina.
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Multilingual translation memory | TMs are always bilingual and unidirectional

July 12, 2016, 12:35 pm
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Multilingual translation memory
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: TMs are always bilingual and unidirectional

Dmitriy

This is not possible as a TM is by definition always bilingual (one source and one target language) and also only works in one direction, meaning that if you translate for example from English to Lithuanian as well as from Lithuanian to English, you need two TMs, one En-Lt and one Lt-En.

Walter
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Save target as... NOT WORKING | Did you use "Save target as"

July 12, 2016, 12:39 pm
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Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Save target as... NOT WORKING
Poster: Walter Blaser
Post title: Did you use "Save target as"

Karina

How did you generate the target file? Did you use the command "Save as target"?

Is the right-hand column of your Editor populated with the translation? Do you see the target text if you do a preview?
If yes, when seeing this preview in Word, simply use the Word command "Save as", this will give the same result and save your target document in the folder you specify.

Walter
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