How can I proofread a PDF file using Trados 2011? | Your customer has no idea of the work involved

Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: How can I proofread a PDF file using Trados 2011?
Poster: Carl Carter
Post title: Your customer has no idea of the work involved

Hi Zahraa,

First of all, I should say I don't actually use Studio, so I'm no expert, but according to Tuomas Kostiainen, who certainly is, you can only convert PDF files when you import them into Studio 2011; you won't get a PDF at the end when you export the edited text, and what Studio offers you after conversion might be a mess of text and formatting tags.

I recommend you to read this article Tuomas wrote, then you'll understand the way Studio works a little better:
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What your customer ought to do in my opinion is extract the text from the target PDF for you, save it as a Word file and then send you that to work on (= import into Studio and edit there). You make the changes and then return the exported Word file to the customer, who can then check it (perhaps) and convert the final version into PDF format using MS Word or Adobe Acrobat, for example. (Other tools can do the job as well.) So in a nutshell, what your customer wants you to do is a tall order. If you agree to do all the conversions, then do make sure you get paid for the extra work.

Regards

Carl