Alignment Problems on Studio 2014 Thread poster: Annie Sapucaia
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I've been trying to import previously translated documents into Trados 2014, but to no avail. I tried as DOC, DOCX and XML. With DOC and DOCX it won't accept it (it says file not supported), and with XML it works but the alignment is outrageous and completely useless.
I've used internet tutorials and it looks like I'm doing everything right (click Align Documents, create new translation memory, insert source and target files), but it's not working.
Any help will be a... See more I've been trying to import previously translated documents into Trados 2014, but to no avail. I tried as DOC, DOCX and XML. With DOC and DOCX it won't accept it (it says file not supported), and with XML it works but the alignment is outrageous and completely useless.
I've used internet tutorials and it looks like I'm doing everything right (click Align Documents, create new translation memory, insert source and target files), but it's not working.
Any help will be appreciated. I'm new to CAT tools so it's a real possibility that I'm just totally lost.
[Edited at 2014-03-30 02:17 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | The problem with the Word files... | Apr 2, 2014 |
... is most likely because of tw4win styles. If you have previously translated files then there is a good chance they were handled in the legacy Trados application. This means the target files probably have the tw4win style included in the file. Studio will not open a monolingual file with this style included because it’s looking for a bilingual file when it sees this style.
So, you need to go into your File -> Options -> FiletypesFile -> Options -> Filetypes and then look in the Common node for the type of Word files you are working with:
- Microsoft Word 2000-2003
- Microsoft Word 2007-2013
In here you will see an option called:
Process files with tw4winMark style
Check this and try the files again... this time they should align.
On the quality of the alignment... this very much depends on the quality of the files you are aligning. You can adjust the slider when you align the files so that you get only good alignment results, but then if the files don't match very well you may find there are hardly any TUs in the Translation Memory at all.
The next release for Studio, due this month, will contain an alignment editor so you can reduce the quality and then correct the alignment manually. Until then, if you use Studio your best option is probably to open the original source file again, attach the TM you aligned and then work through the source file correcting the translations and confirming to your Translation Memory as you go.
Alternatively you could have a go with something like LF Aligner from Farkas András which won’t help with the XML but it does a pretty good job on Word files. You can find this here : http://aligner.sourceforge.net/
Regards
Paul ▲ Collapse
| | | | | "object reference not set to an instance of an object" when aligning | Apr 2, 2014 |
Hi there,
I have Studio 2014 and sometimes get this very general message when aligning. I have read through a few threads and found that it can refer to all sorts of things. In my case, I've only come across it when aligning texts. I'm currently trying to align 5 pdfs and the message is coming up for every single text. I've been able to align some pdfs in the past; and the message has come up with Word docs in the past too - so I don't think the problem is limited to pdfs. After one... See more Hi there,
I have Studio 2014 and sometimes get this very general message when aligning. I have read through a few threads and found that it can refer to all sorts of things. In my case, I've only come across it when aligning texts. I'm currently trying to align 5 pdfs and the message is coming up for every single text. I've been able to align some pdfs in the past; and the message has come up with Word docs in the past too - so I don't think the problem is limited to pdfs. After one failed attempt, I retried using the automatically generated Word files that had appeared in the same folders as the pdfs. But that didn't work either (same error message).
I should also point out that i'm not expecting an amazing alignment given that I'm working with pdfs - anything will do really; just at the moment I'm not even getting past first base.
I've tried the solution suggested for previous versions of Trados - i.e. deleting the following files and reloading Trados:
BaseSettings.xml
Plugincache.xml
UserSettings.xml
But it didn't work. There's also another settings file in the same folder as the others entitled simply:
Settings.xml.
Should I perhaps try deleting that as well and then reloading?
Or does anyone know of any other solutions?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer! ▲ Collapse
| | | | | I think if I saw this... | Apr 2, 2014 |
... the first thing I would do is see whether I could open the files separately for translation first. If I couldn’t then the problem is Studio is struggling with these specific files and you’d need to figure out why that was. Could be the files are invalid for some reason?
If it could open the files for translation, then I think it would be worth logging a support case through the solution finder.
Regards
Paul
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Sian Cooper 
France
Local time: 07:21
French to English
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In memoriam | I have the same problem, how do I report? | Apr 9, 2014 |
Hi. I was JUST posting a 'Thanks that fixed it' message when I found it hadn't
So - I am aligning some files that were translated last year, no doubt in 2011. I have set the 'process tw4win' flags. It gets aaaaalmost to the end, and then I get the object reference error. A colleague on another installation has the same issue, so it's not installation-specific.
How do I log an issue, please? We really need... See more Hi. I was JUST posting a 'Thanks that fixed it' message when I found it hadn't
So - I am aligning some files that were translated last year, no doubt in 2011. I have set the 'process tw4win' flags. It gets aaaaalmost to the end, and then I get the object reference error. A colleague on another installation has the same issue, so it's not installation-specific.
How do I log an issue, please? We really need to align these files, they are the basis for a big project we are prepping.
Thanks!
[Edited at 2014-04-09 08:07 GMT]
PS - I have created a project with them and there is no problem; the start was even updated into the TM and finding the aligned values OK
[Edited at 2014-04-09 08:09 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Sian Cooper
France
Local time: 07:21
French to English
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In memoriam | AND 2011 alignment is broken so can't use that as alternative | Apr 9, 2014 |
Hi - I thought maybe aligning the files in 2011 as a workaround would be an idea, but I have just tried opening it and get an error,
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail
This is the first time I've tried to use the old aligner since installing 2014, so... I'm really not very happy at the moment.
| | | | MKJC27
Netherlands
Local time: 07:21
Dutch to English
| Aligned documents are 'lost'. | May 13, 2014 |
Hello,
I have translated a document in Studio 2014, and after I align the documents to add them to my TM, I lose them. Please help.
| | | | | Same problem with perfectly good PDF files | Apr 10, 2015 |
I am trying to align two PDFS in SDL 2014 but get the same message. The files are valid and can be opened for translation as Paul pointed out above.
I tried converting these files to word (.doc and . docx) but nothing, just keep getting the message again.
Have rebooted SDL, installed updates, refeshed window view...
I have also checked that the file formats that Paul specified to the file style (actually were already in the list), but dido...
In other... See more I am trying to align two PDFS in SDL 2014 but get the same message. The files are valid and can be opened for translation as Paul pointed out above.
I tried converting these files to word (.doc and . docx) but nothing, just keep getting the message again.
Have rebooted SDL, installed updates, refeshed window view...
I have also checked that the file formats that Paul specified to the file style (actually were already in the list), but dido...
In other words, I have gotten nowhere after 1 hour. Seems like the Align feature has some quirks to iron out. Too bad
[Edited at 2015-04-10 08:58 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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