| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | How to type a truly dotted underline in Word Thread poster: Reed James
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mediamatrix (X)
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| How to re-use the exact style and formatting of the source document | Nov 7, 2006 |
Anyone sharing Reed's passion for exact look-alike translations of official documents - certificates in particular - who regularly has a requirement to translate such documents from the same source, it might find it worthwhile doing the job 'properly'.
The steps:
A Scan a good clear original certificate.
B Using a graphics program, blank out all... See more Anyone sharing Reed's passion for exact look-alike translations of official documents - certificates in particular - who regularly has a requirement to translate such documents from the same source, it might find it worthwhile doing the job 'properly'.
The steps:
A Scan a good clear original certificate.
B Using a graphics program, blank out all the variable data and insert text blocks over static texts that you wish to translate, thus creating a complete empty form (including those famous dotted lines) in the target language.
C Build a database table, in Access for example, to receive the variable data.
D Build a database report having the empty translated certificate as an image background, and a set of suitably-formatted text boxes to receive the variable data from the data table.
E To translate a look-alike translation, enter the data into the table (directly, or via a simple data entry form) and print the complete pre-formatted report.
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It's probably about an hour's work the first time - but thereafter you'll be delivering 'perfect' translations as fast as you can enter the data. 5 minutes max per certificate!
That said, there are some risks here. You will probably not want to go too far with the look-alike policy. In Chile, for example, there are two forms of birth certificate: those you get in person from the Civil Registry, printed on special sequentially-numbered and bar-coded fan-fold paper, and those you get via the Internet, delivered as PDF files with a built-in digital signature (which is of course different on every certificate delivered this way, even if they actually refer to the same event).
The former have a couple of rubber stamps and the signature of the registry employee - these should normally not be reproduced 'as-is' on a translation.
In the latter case, I doubt that the Civil Registry would look kindly on your re-use of the digital signature (a 2-D bar-code)and reproduction of the hand-written signature could possibly be regarded as a forgery. The inclusion in your look-alike translations of the verification code would also be somewhat questionable, since from a legal point of view it is used to confirm authenticity of the original document, not of the translation.
Summarising: If you need to translate lots of similar certificates (or other repetitive documents containing relatively little variable text) it can be worthwhile spending time to set up a special system. But you may be getting yourself into deep water. At the very least, you should blank out the computer-readable content of the originals (bar-codes and digital signatures).
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| | | | Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
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Jerzy Czopik wrote:
I´m very sorry for beeing rude. Truly I don´t know why.
Must have had a very bad day. Please accept my apology for that. Sorry once again.
Kind regads
Jerzy
No problem Jerzy. I see that you have already deleted it and I did the same.
Best regards,
Tina
| | | | Reed James
Chile
Local time: 03:05
Member (2005)
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER | Found a good solution | Dec 4, 2006 |
I asked WordTips this same question. You can view the answer here: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1799. They basically said that you create your own font using any kind of underline that you like. I can see a real use in creating fonts, especially for legal documents and forms.
Reed
[Edited at 2006-12-04 16:36]
[Edi... See more I asked WordTips this same question. You can view the answer here: http://wordtips.VitalNews.com/T1799. They basically said that you create your own font using any kind of underline that you like. I can see a real use in creating fonts, especially for legal documents and forms.
Reed
[Edited at 2006-12-04 16:36]
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