Video and description for a simple way to get original source files out of a #Trados Studio SDLXLIFF file.
https://open.substack.com/pub/translationtribulations/p/so-you-got-a-trados-studio-file-but
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This is the first of a series of posts planned to explain the basics of segmentation management in various translation environment tools. I've chosen the two market leaders, #Trados and #memoQ, as examples because of their very different approaches to how to manage breaking text up into chunks for translation and localization processes.
Often users of "CAT tools" - and those who oppose their use - argue about the value of sentence-level text segmentation, with some preferring to break the text up at a paragraph level, especially where considerable restructuring is needed to make the #translation fit for purpose. So that's what I'm talking about first, because it also enables me to cover top-level concepts without getting bogged down in the awful regex and other details of good sentence segmentation (left for another day).https://open.substack.com/pub/translationtribulations/p/paragraph-segmentation-in-trados
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__Lösung:__ C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\SelfCert.exe ausführen erzeugt ein Selbstzertifikat für Makrosignierung (gilt nur für eigenen PC). In Word via Entwickler-Tools > Visual Basic > im VB-Fenster das Makro anwählen, in Extras > Digitale Signatur… klicken. Via Entwickler-Tools > Makro-Sicherheit in Word nur "alle außer signierte" Makros blockieren. Fertig.
Vielleicht hilft das ja jemandem von euch 😊
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#TradosStudio (2019) #Trados crasht beim Start ("unzulässige Inhalte in der Normal.dotm"), nachdem ich in MS #Word ein VB #Makro in die Normal.dotm gespeichert habe (Word und das Makro funktionieren aber normal). 😒
1/2, Lösung in 2/2
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Whoaaaaaa fuck #trados ! The company has now shifted to a subscription model along with a permanent one-time buy in offer, but goddamn, these prices are EXPENSIVE.
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After the usual installations of #memoQ and more recently #Cafetran Espresso, installing #Trados Studio 2022 was quite a shock. But not as much a shock as the subsequent #translation functionality tests....
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This public page in an online course lists some of my favorite resources for working with #regex in #translation with #memoQ, #Trados or #Phrase or solving mysterious issues with text or handling #PDF files.
The site has other public pages with book and article recommendations and free configured resources for greater productivity in memoQ.
https://transtrib-tech.teachable.com/courses/memoquickies-resource-camp/lectures/49039953
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If you want to know what a future which uses Large Language Models extensively looks like, talk to a translator who uses a machine translation tool like Trados.
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Had an interesting "onboarding interview" for a #translation project today. Not sure yet if we're a good fit, but the discussion crystallized my thoughts on a little functional disconnect in what many companies do to evaluate language service providers.
The subject of "test translations" has been argued over for all of the 20+ years I have been involved in commercial translation work, and I have no intention to add to that debate today. However....
Project managers, "vendor managers", etc. if you are trying to evaluate someone's suitability to work with your company on some project, perhaps instead of simply sending out some text in whatever format as a test translation, you should structure the test in a way that actually reflects your processes.
For example, if your company uses #Trados Studio and you expect prospective team members to translate packages from that tool, then for God's sake, don't just send out the text for the "test" as a PDF, DOCX or whatever. Send a damned package. And if you don't get an SDLRPX back for the SDLPPX you sent, well, you know that there may be other issues ahead. And doing things this way can also save you time and allow you to apply some automated QA as well.
Ditto for any other tool, be it #Phrase, #Wordfast, #memoQ or whatever floats your boat. Do the "test" as a small assignment on your server, send out a package for your favored tool, etc. Too many times I have seen friends and corporate clients get burned by vetting processes that are really not fit for purpose. Don't join that club.
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@barubary @petergarner
Oh, FYI y'all, I was chatting with Stanislav Okhvat (of #TransTools) earlier today, and it seems he's got a tool for use in MS Word that will allow multiple searches using (a) just ordinary text search & replace, (b) Word wildcards and (c) honest-to-God .NET regex like I use to build most of my work libraries. And it looks like these can be managed easy for use by those who aren't particularly technogeeky.I just got a license for testing, and if I like what I see (as I usually do with his work), I'll include it in my workshops next month. I have several client scenarios where the editors are totally CAT-phobic and want to work only in MS Word, and this looks like a great tool to help them clean up some of the formatting trashed by MT or careless human translators.
And in case anyone is wondering, the results can be brought back into the translation management system in #memoQ or #Trados Studio using that monolingual review that Susan Starling and I dreamed up over a decade ago....
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The last of my three public talks on the #memoQ #Regex Assistant will be next Thursday, February 2nd, at 12pm Central European Time.
This series has focused on how ordinary, intelligent #translators and reviewers can use the power of #RegularExpressions to solve problems in #translation and #localization without getting bogged down in ugly, non-intuitive syntax.
Attendees are given a useful library of expressions to aid their work, which are organized with understandable names, labels and descriptions - all you need to find and apply them. Most of these expressions should be usable in other tools like #Trados Studio or #Xbench.
Here is a link to obtain access to the last live presentation and Q&A:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sf-CorT4iHtIKPVYX3FkORla4IdGfySXa -
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For those of you concerned with cleaning up #translation memory data, I would like to share the growing YouTube playlist for the procedures one of my corporate clients/students is putting together for doing that:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXIvBJHkLWu7os39Ooh37lm4jXMJieWF4
#xl8 #l10n #TranslationStudies
Ideas from this series can help individuals, organizations and companies move a little closer to "best practice" in their data maintenance. Many of us who have used support tools like #Trados, #Wordfast, etc. to organize translation projects have issues with data quality. Encoding errors, language mix-ups, etc. pollute many of our data stores and make these less suitable as reference material or training data for machine translation or whatever other mortal sins we might have in mind.
The #regex course I'll be doing as an experimental free online course here will address some of the skills to deal with problems like this using the versatile platform #memoQ and other suitable tools.