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The tips and advice you will find on this site are an accumulation of more than a decade's worth of hands-on experience while consulting for the most prominent Translation companies. Most of this knowledge can be considered inside trade stuff, tricks and hacks I either created from scratch or combined from other (free) sources; material that is surely not easily found elsewhere. I hope you find all this as useful and interesting as I have when creating/compiling it. Spread the word, and consider making a donation if anything on this site has helped you with your day-to-day work.

Working with customers that don’t have SDL Trados Studio 2009

By pdudis on June 22, 2011 | Leave a response

Difficulty Level: Medium A rather frequent problem that is occurring lately is this: you have upgraded to the latest and greatest SDL Trados Studio 2009, ready to use all its super-duper functionality with your newly arrived assignment and… wham! The customer informs you that they don’t work with SDL Trados Studio 2009. That is, if [...]

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Exporting your TM and reasons to do so

Exporting your TM and reasons to do so

By pdudis on June 21, 2011 | Leave a response

Difficulty Level: Low There are cases where you have to create and/or deliver an exported version of your TM (Translation Memory). This might seem as an unneeded task since the customer should be able to use directly your TM in its current format. Well, in theory, this assumption is correct but there is some valid [...]

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Verifying your TagEditor files

Verifying your TagEditor files

By pdudis on June 21, 2011 | 2 Responses

Difficulty Level: Low For the perfectionists out there, here’s a tip that will guarantee your TagEditor files (file extension: .ttx) are fully translated and have no tag/punctuation/consistency errors. Open the TagEditor file you wish to verify and from the menu select Tools -> Plug-ins… A dialog box will pop-up with various options. For this tip, [...]

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