Increase text size in Passolo Translator 2007

Ever felt like your eyes were in strain when translating in Passolo? You thought there should be some easy and intuitive way to increase size but you could not find it?

Here is the solution:

Tools > Options > Translation Window > Font Zoom

Greek localization and inflection: the case of short strings ambiguity

First published as: Why contextual information is necessary for the localization into highly inflectional languages like Greek

There are many issues that affect localization which have been mentioned in some detail in a previous post.

Quite often, major companies or major localization service providers, deliver lists of English strings that need to be localized (or reviewed, edited, QAed) in highly inflectional languages, the case with Greek.

Trados TagEditor: spell checking option appears inactive (grey)

Go to Tools -> Plugins -> SpellCheck, and select MS Word Spellchecker

Cumulative patch for SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1

Cumulative patch for SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1.

For more information, please refer to KB article 2913
at http://talisma.sdl.com/article.aspx?article=2913&p=1.

This cumulative patch addresses the following issues with SP1:

Custom text and attribute field values lost when upgrading translation memories for use in SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1

Creating a new translation memory in SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 may fail with the error message "Culture ID 4096 is not a supported culture"

Connecting to a MultiTerm Server 2009 from SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 may fail when using the HTTP protocol

Opening third-party XLIFF files after upgrading to SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 fails with the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Please make sure to apply this patch as soon as possible.

Apply the cumulative update as follows:

Close SDL Trados Studio.
Download the ZIP file KB2913.zip from the attachments area of this KB article.
Extract the ZIP file to a temporary folder of your choice, such as C:\temp. The ZIP file applies to all editions of SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1.
Double-click the file Studio-KB2913.msp. This will install the patch and update the following files in the SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP1 installation folder:
MtAnywhere.dll (new file version 8.1.1107.0)
Sdl.FileTypeSupport.Bilingual.Xliff.dll(new file version 9.0.1107.7)
Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryMigrationApi.Implementation.dll (new file version 1.6.1110.1)
Sdl.TranslationStudio.TranslationMemoryManager.dll (new file version 9.1.1117.1)

Trados suggestion: Automatic term replacement and case change when opening a translation unit

Trados suggestion: Automatic term replacement and case change when opening a translation unit

The following is an idea I submitted to Trados. Feel free to vote it. It is a pity that the market leader is well behind functionality than other tools (i.e. DVX and Metatexis fully support this with a multitude of case adaptation options).

Currently, one needs to insert a term manually, either by a shortcut/clicking on Trados Suite 2007 or by entering first characters in Trados Studio 2009. The other option would be to enable term replacement when pretranslating. However, this is hardly ideal as one cannot benefit to the same extent with matches that will be created during the translation process and it will require extra work.

Also, when terms are replaced, there should be options whether the case should change following the source text. I.e. if my term is *Printer* and its translation is *Imprimante* whilst my source text is *Turn off the printer* then it should automatically adapt case and output *Turn off the imprimante*.

http://ideas.sdltrados.com/ideas/detail.asp?i=2612

Download information technology English -> Greek AutoSuggest dictionary for Trados Studio 2009

I have created an information technology (software) English (US) -> Greek AutoSuggest dictionary for Trados Studio 2009
(8MB rar version, 23 MB uncompressed).

English Greek autosuggest dictionary for Trados Studio 2009

I have created an English (US) -> Greek autosuggest dictionary for Trados Studio 2009 based on mainly legal texts of the European Community (3MB rar version, 9 MB uncompressed). Follow the link above for instructions and download link.

Adding term to termbase (Trados Studio 2009)

Trados Studio 2009 - Adding term to termbase

1. Select the source term
2. Select the target term
3. Right click on any selected term and click on Add new term (or assign a shortcut for this via Tools - Options - Keyboard Shortcuts)
4. Click on the auto hide icon (only for the first time you add a term)
5. Click on the Save icon or F12 (for some reason F12 does not work for me and others as far as I know).
6. Move back to your text and continue translation (the add term pane will be hidden automatically).

Translate Trados TagEditor ttx files with OmegaT

Toxic is a utility for converting Trados Tag Editor (TTX files) to an intermediate format, enabling them to be translated in OmegaT.

Paste Unformatted Macro - Copy easily from Trados Concordance into Word

Paste Unformatted Macro - Copy easily from Trados Concordance into Word


Problem:
Whenever you copy text from, say, the Web, and try to paste it into a Word doc, or, specifically to an open segment of Trados, Wordfast, Metatexis, etc, Microsoft Word retains the format of the text and wrecks your segment (This is especially true with Trados, even in case you copy the search results of a Concordance search)!

You can select Paste Special from the edit menu instead of Ctrl+V or if you have Word XP you can select the appropriate option from the smart tag that appears after the paste (not applicable when working within a segment created by a translation memory application), but it is all rather cumbersome.

Solution:
Like so many annoying things of Office, a little macro can solve this idiosyncrasy. Start Word and bring up Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) by pressing Alt+F8 or clicking Tools > Macro > Macros. Type a macro name in the box, say, PasteUnformatted, and click Create.

The Microsoft Visual Basic Editor will appear with the following lines:

Code:

Sub PasteUnformatted()
'
' PasteUnformatted Macro
' Macro created 10/18/2001 by Spiros Doikas
'
End Sub 

Immediately before that End Sub line paste the following:

Code:

Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText

So that your macro now looks like this:

Code:

Sub PasteUnformattedText()
'
' PasteUnformattedText Macro
' Macro created 3/5/2005 by Spiros Doikas

Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

Click File > Close and return to Microsoft Word.
Now, you need to tell Word to run that macro every time you press Ctrl-V or, if you want to retain Ctrl-V as it is you can use Alt+V (my favourite) or Ctrl+Alt+V (Do not use Ctrl+Shift+V because it is the default shortcut for pasting formatting).

• Click Tools > Customize.
• Make sure Save In shows normal.dot among the file types and click the Keyboard button.
• In the Categories box, pick Macros.
• In the Macros box, choose your macro (in this case, PasteUnformatted).
• Click inside the Press new shortcut key box and hit Ctrl-V or Ctrl+Alt+V.
• Click Assign.

You're done! From now on, every time you press Ctrl-V or Ctrl+Alt+V, you can paste the contents of the clipboard into Word, Excel, Outlook, Trados, Wordfast, Metatexis etc. without any formatting.