Hi, I'm trying to align two files. Each is a Word file. I have saved them as RTF files, as this is in the list of approved file types, but then nothing appears...
I would strongly recommend aligning OTF files, regardless of the original format of your documents. In order to create OTF files for alignment, import your...
Thanks for the info Stefan. That has taken me a stage further, but if you hadn't told me about unchecking the default option I would never have been able to...
How is it possible to keep the View Differences and Results and Terminology displayed on the screen at all times? I don't mean physically, as the work areas...
... I have been fairly successful with aligning RTF files without converting them into OTFs (often it is not possible to insert a space after merging...
Is it possible to delete a source segment in Edit? My opening two segments need to be translated as one target segment, so I just need to delete the second...
Hi Ben, Well, Alignment shouldn't be your every-day task with a TM tool, should it? Once you've started translating with a CAT tool, you create your TMs on the...
It is NOT possible to delete segments from SDL Edit, I'm afraid. Just leave the second target segment blank. Does your source document contain hard returns as...
... To me, the obvious solution would be to pre-edit my source file. This is especially important for Word files. However, if a client supplies you with an ITD...
Hi Stefan, No, it wouldn't be an everyday task, but I have many hundreds of files that I want to align before using SDLX. Then of course what about when a...
Hi Stefan, The problem is that it would take ages and ages to go through a document of, say, 100,000 words deciding which hard breaks were to be removed. It is...
Thanks, Rob, but editing the source file wouldn't be an option as it would defeat the very purpose of having a TM. Wouldn't it? Ben ... From: Rob Laumen To:...
I've looked now, and it's ticked okay. No, for some reason, nothing appears in the boxes for showing the things in the TM. I've only just started looking at...
... Not in my view. TMs can't think for themselves, so sometimes you just have to help them a little ;-) I always pre-edit my source files, especially Word...
Hi Ben, I agree, in your scenario you would need to do an alignment of the old translations. But creating the OTFs would be only one additional step, since you...
As I'm new to this thing, I'm not sure what you mean by format painting, but as I use Word files most of the time, could you please summarise briefly what I...
I don't know. But I did try DVX months ago and I think you could join and split segments in the editing environment. Maybe not. Never tried Trados. Ben...
Hi Ben, ... Format Painting is a core concept of SDLX. Surely you can find info on it in the manual or online help. ... I know you evaluated DVX in the past,...
No, it's not frustrating at all. The segments in which "nothing happens": Are they confirmed or 100% matches? Auto Lookup only works for untranslated or fuzzy...
Hi Stefan, I would be really grateful if you could tell me how to do the OTF business in one single run, because I have many many translations to align and it...
HI Ben On the New Alignment dialog before you browse for the source & target files - Make sure the 'File Type' selection reflects the files you want to import ...
You've lost me here Stefan, but I really appreciate your help. It seems that SDLX is mightily complicated. I bought it months ago, but have never managed to do...
Hi Fas, All files are the same format i.e. Word, so initially I select DOC (Microsoft Word) from the list, and invariably I get another screen with RTF ticked....
HI Ben I was referring to SDL Align in my last mail - if you want to Align DOC files, convert them to RTF and then select the file type as 'RTF' on the New ...
I also found this rather odd, Andreas. After all, why would you want to deselect files that you don't want when it would be easier to select the ones you do...
I see what you mean. No, the files were converted to RTF okay (I viewed them and they were okay), and I selected all files or whatever it was from the drop...
Hi Ben I'm under the impression that you're using the Import wizard to prepare your files for alignment. If that's actually so, you should work from the...
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