Tags, tags, everywhere! Thread poster: Veronica Coquard
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I am trying my best to translate a couple of pages of ads that, when opened in Trados Studio 2009, are positively infested with tags!
Every single word is surrounded by tags, and there are many tags that have no words within.
Very hard to concentrate on the words themselves, of course! What to do? It's driving me nuts!
Thanks in advance everybody!
P.S. The ads are presented in Adobe pdf form.
[Edited at 2011-04-08 10:27 GMT]
| | | | Jerzy Czopik 
Germany
Local time: 19:09
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| OCRed document? | Apr 8, 2011 |
Please reformat the source document, so that no font changes will occur anymore.
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Hello Jerzy,
How do you go about doing this?
| | | | | CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE | Apr 8, 2011 |
1. Mark the text in the source file and press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE to remove the source text formatting; OR
2. Ore use styles in Word to pre-process the source document.
Either of them should improve things.
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| Does this also work for pdfs? | Apr 8, 2011 |
Hi there Stanislav,
As I'm working dorectly with a pdf (and I believe that's where the abundance of tags are coming from), I don't know whether I'll be able to use Word to pre-process the doc.
So I tried the first method you mention. When you say "mark" the text in the source file, do you mean "select" it? Do you go about this in the source column while working in the Trados enviromnent, or elsewhere?
TIA!
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 19:09
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Convert the PDF before you go to Studio | Apr 8, 2011 |
or use now the "Save target as function" in Studio.
This will save a Word document.
Open this document in Word.
Select the whole text by pressing CTRL+A.
Now press CTRL+D and select a font of your choice (Times New Roman or Arial or whatever). Do not change ANYTHING else now, just select the font and click ok.
Press CTRL+D again (should the text get deselected, press CTRL+A before), select the same font again and go to the tab "Character spacing".
In "Scale" s... See more or use now the "Save target as function" in Studio.
This will save a Word document.
Open this document in Word.
Select the whole text by pressing CTRL+A.
Now press CTRL+D and select a font of your choice (Times New Roman or Arial or whatever). Do not change ANYTHING else now, just select the font and click ok.
Press CTRL+D again (should the text get deselected, press CTRL+A before), select the same font again and go to the tab "Character spacing".
In "Scale" select 100%, in Spacing select normal and deselect the "Kerning for fonts:" checkbox.
Press OK to save the settings, save the Word document and open this one in Studio. There will be far less tags now, not all will dissapear, but most of them. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Walter Blaser
Switzerland
Local time: 19:09
French to German
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| Studio will anyway convert your PDF to Word | Apr 8, 2011 |
verslanglais wrote:
Hi there Stanislav,
As I'm working dorectly with a pdf (and I believe that's where the abundance of tags are coming from), I don't know whether I'll be able to use Word to pre-process the doc.
TIA!
You can easily get hold of the Word produced by Studio by doing a preview of the source. This will open Word and you can pre-process this document in Word to clean up the formatting, then do a "Save as" and open that Word document in Studio instead of the PDF.
Walter
| | | | Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:09
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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| @verslanglais | Apr 8, 2011 |
I would suggest:
1. Convert the PDF to .doc with ABBYY FineReader (or a free online converter of your choice)
2. Run CodeZapper on Word document
3. Import into Studio and translate
There should be virtually zero tags if you follow this procedure.
Michael
http://asap-traduction.com/CodeZapper
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I appreciate your step-by-step directions, Jerzy. You've come to the rescue once again!
Have a nice sunny Friday afternoon!
| | | | | Thanks, Michael! | Apr 8, 2011 |
I'm on my way with Jerzy's technique, but will keep yours on file for next time.
| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 20:09
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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| Try also CodeZapper | Apr 8, 2011 |
Just for the record, in case someone reads this thread later. CodeZapper removes surplus code from Word-files.
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