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File Format Preferences with MetaTexis

msgallo — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:12:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: File Format Preferences with MetaTexis
Poster: msgallo

Hi to everybody, and a happy New Year,

I hope you can help me with the following dilemma. I have been testing Wordfast Pro and MetaTexis, in order to see which of these tools better suits my needs as a freelance translator. I gained the insight that MetaTexis has difficulty translating diagrams, but seems to cope effortlessly with a lot of file types, breaking footnotes and comments into separate sections. I haven’t attempted some file types with this tool yet though, so reserving judgement.

I successfully translated Word documents with and without diagrams, footnotes etc, and I also managed to translate a PDF without any difficulty in Wordfast Pro. I’m confused, however, by how Wordfast Pro translates Excel spreadsheets, because my attempts did successfully add an Excel spreadsheet to Wordfast Pro, but it seemed to take every line as a new segment rather than seeing each text box as a whole. Therefore, text strings which belonged together for comprehension purposes were separated by other data, making the translation and comprehension of terms complicated or prone to error. This set of errors will be down to my inexperience with the tools, as I’m sure far more experienced users will know how to set up the preferences to cope with this. When you’re as computer-illiterate as I am, written instructions can easily be muddled, which is where I think most of my problems lie.

I’d like to ask which file formats are better supported by which of the two given CAT tools, and also ask your opinions as to which is better and why.

Thank you so much in advance for the slightest bit of information you can give me, I appreciate it very much.

Michaela Suzanna Gallo

MetaTexis not recognising Diagram within Word document.

msgallo — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:50:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis not recognising Diagram within Word document.
Poster: msgallo

Hi there,

I am trying to translate a Word document which contains a diagram within the body of the 'active document area'. Obviously MetaTexis deals with the diagram in a separate text area to the main text, as with footnotes etc, but every time the program asks me if I want to go to the next document area, and I click yes, it reverts every time back to the start of the 'active document area', effectively leaving the diagram untranslated.

I have been trying this several times in a row, and still no success. Can anyone help me with it?

Thanks in advance

Metatexis and Office 2010 | You need to instll the 32-bit edition of Word 2010

Hermann Bruns — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:09:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Metatexis and Office 2010
Poster: Hermann Bruns
Post title: You need to instll the 32-bit edition of Word 2010

Dear MetaTexis users,

MetaTexis for Word, like almost all other Word add-ins, does not run in the 64-bit edition of Word 2010. You need to install the 32-bit edition of Word 2010, if you intend to run add-ins, for, almost all Word add-ins were developed in 32-bit mode.

Best regards
Hermann

Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis | no access to Trados

Mark Berelekhis — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:56:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis
Poster: Mark Berelekhis
Post title: no access to Trados

Hi Natalie,

My mistake for not articulating my problem correctly. I don't have Trados, so is there another way to convert it to TMX format?

Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis | 2 simple steps

Natalie — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:35:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis
Poster: Natalie
Post title: 2 simple steps

1) You need to convert the Trados TM to the exchange format, i.e. TMX. Open your TM in Trados Workbench and export it to .TMX.

2) Create a new empty Metatexis TM and import the TMX file into it.

HTH,
Natalia

Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis

Mark Berelekhis — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:11:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Problem attaching Trados TMs to Metatexis
Poster: Mark Berelekhis

Hi everybody,

I have Office 2010 and have just downloaded the new, trial version Metatexis.

The client provided me with a rar TM which contained 5 files with the following extensions: IIX, MDF, MTF, MWF, TMW. I don't know what those extensions are, but I assume they are all Trados related somehow. I'm following the video tutorial on metatexis.com, but the problem is that Metatexis doesn't recognize any of these extensions, and I can't seem to find a way to attach the client's TM.

I would really appreciate a step-by-step instruction how to take those 5 files and turn them into a Metatexis TM. TIA.

[Edited at 2011-10-27 18:38 GMT]

MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility | Non-pre-translated TTX?

Samuel Murray — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:55:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Non-pre-translated TTX?

[quote]Hermann Bruns wrote:
With MetaTexis Pro you can process TRADOS Word documents, but not the newer TRADOS TagEditor documents (TTX files). ... Only with MetaTexis NET/Office you can process both the old TRADOS Word documents and the TagEditor files.[/quote]

The web site says that the Pro version can do TTX files -- is this a mistake?
[url removed]

Also, the TTX file in the demonstration video is a pre-translated TTX file. Can Metatexis handle non-pre-translated TTX files?
[url removed]

How to skip sentences? | Thank you!

Charlotte Blank — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:10:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: How to skip sentences?
Poster: Charlotte Blank
Post title: Thank you!

Dear Claudia,

thanks for your quick answer! This is what I did as well but I thought there must be some less complicated way such as in Wordfast ;-)

Have a nice (rest-)week, too!

Charlotte

How to skip sentences? | Close segment and move the cursor to the next one

Claudia Luque Bedregal — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: How to skip sentences?
Poster: Claudia Luque Bedregal
Post title: Close segment and move the cursor to the next one

Hello Charlotte,

I've been using MetaTexis for a couple of months, so I'm not expert either, but this is what I do: I close the segment (alt + end) I don't want/need to translate, go to the next segment/line I want to translate and then open the segment (alt + down)

Have a good week :)
Claudia

How to skip sentences?

Charlotte Blank — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: How to skip sentences?
Poster: Charlotte Blank

Hello all,

I'm absolutely new to Metatexis and already have a really silly question: How can I skip a sentence I don't want (or don't need) to translate? In Wordfast I click ALT CTRL DOWN but this doesn't seem to be working here. So far I couldn't find anything in the Help file - maybe I missed something?

[SOLVED] Machine translation problem

xxxfilippaluba — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:26:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: [SOLVED] Machine translation problem
Poster: xxxfilippaluba

I have a problem considering machine translation via Google. Metatexis connects to the server and downloads a file named "[t]". A pop-up appears asking for chosing a program to open this file. I opened it in notepad and it does contain the translation (among others) but it should be automatically inserted into the segment. How to fix this problem?

This is what the [t] file contains:
[code]
[[["Trying MetaTexis and Google Translator .","Próba Metatexis i Google Translatora.","",""]],,"pl",,[["Trying",[5],1,0,529,0,1,0],["MetaTexis",[6],1,0,449,1,2,0],["and Google",[7],1,0,366,2,4,0],["Translator",[8],1,0,529,4,5,0],[".",[9],0,0,529,5,6,0]],[["Próba",5,[["Trying",529,1,0],["Attempting",340,1,0],["Attempt",130,1,0],["Attempt to",0,1,0],["An attempt",0,1,0]],[[0,5]],"Próba Metatexis i Google Translatora."],["Metatexis",6,[["MetaTexis",449,1,0],["the MetaTexis",0,1,0],["of MetaTexis",0,1,0],["a MetaTexis",0,1,0]],[[6,15]],""],["i Google",7,[["and Google",366,1,0],["or Google",0,1,0],["and the Google",0,1,0]],[[16,24]],""],["Translatora",8,[["Translator",529,1,0]],[[25,36]],""],[".",9,[[".",529,0,0]],[[36,37]],""]],,,[["en","fr","sv","ro","pl"]],60]
[/code]

SOLUTION:
I sent a message to Metatexis support and received a solution almost immediately. Internet connection must be set to "Winsock" instead of to "Internet Explorer".

[Zmieniono 2011-08-24 16:49 GMT]

Metatexis and Office 2010 | 64 bit

Wulf-Dieter Krüger — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Metatexis and Office 2010
Poster: Wulf-Dieter Krüger
Post title: 64 bit

[quote]velayuan wrote:

Hi
I have the official office 2010, and tried to get Meta Texis to work with it. However, when I tried to install Meta Texis, it throws me this message that Microsoft word is not found. I might because I have the 64 bit version of office 2010, and the compatible issues come about. I emailed the technical support team, and hope to find out the reason soon. [/quote]

Yes, same issue here - way out of this issue is to install the 32bit version of Office 2010

Metatexis and Office 2010 | MetaTexis and Office 2010

Wulf-Dieter Krüger — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:40:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Metatexis and Office 2010
Poster: Wulf-Dieter Krüger
Post title: MetaTexis and Office 2010

[quote]Christine Caillaud wrote:

Office 2010 was just released by MS, and since those that bought Office 2007 recently are entitled to a free upgrade, I was wondering if anyone has already tried it with Metatexis or heard anything about whether Metatexis works with Office (Word) 2010? I would like to install Office 2010, but am afraid that it might mess things up for me and cause problems in the use of Metatexis.

If that is the case, or in doubt, I will have to wait...

Thanks for any input you might have!

CC [/quote]

According to my experience there are no issues with the 3.... version of MetaTexis and Office 2010, they work just fine.

There might be an issue if you use W7-64bit and or use the SQLite database format there might be a hickup. You might have to use the Access formant again for your TM

So, for safety's sake export all your TMs into tmx so that in case they do not work you can set up a new one and then import the tmx.

Otherwise everything is just fine as usual
kind regards
wdk

Metatexis and Office 2010 | I have the answer maybe

velayuan — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Metatexis and Office 2010
Poster: velayuan
Post title: I have the answer maybe

Hi
I have the official office 2010, and tried to get Meta Texis to work with it. However, when I tried to install Meta Texis, it throws me this message that Microsoft word is not found. I might because I have the 64 bit version of office 2010, and the compatible issues come about. I emailed the technical support team, and hope to find out the reason soon.

Making TM from table in word document | Thanks

Ditte Duclert — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:36:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Making TM from table in word document
Poster: Ditte Duclert
Post title: Thanks

Thanks for your suggestions, I will give those a try!

Making TM from table in word document | Alternative

FarkasAndras — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:56:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Making TM from table in word document
Poster: FarkasAndras
Post title: Alternative

Another option: make a TMX out of the file (I'm guessing Metatexis supports TMX, right?)

[url removed]

Making TM from table in word document | Hi Ditte

Natalie — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:51:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Making TM from table in word document
Poster: Natalie
Post title: Hi Ditte

Export your table into a text file with any delimiter you like (tab, for example).

In MT, create a new memory with the necessary parameters, and import the TXT file into it.

HTH,
Natalia

Making TM from table in word document

Ditte Duclert — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:32:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Making TM from table in word document
Poster: Ditte Duclert

Hello,
I have a word document with a table in it with two columns. First column has the source language words (single words and short sentences) and the second column has the target language, everything is filled in.

Now I need to translate a different document where many, if not most or all of the words are the same as in the original document, but only the column with the source lange is filled in and the second column needs filling in. The words will not be in the same order and some words/phrases might differ from the original document.

Is there any way that I can easily add the combinations from the original document to my TM (I am using MetaTexis NET/Office)? Or what would be the easiest way to work through this?

Thanks!

using string as segmentation marker

scribext — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: using string as segmentation marker
Poster: scribext

Hi all,

is there any way to have MT automatically split a paragraph into two segments when it finds a specific string?

Example: given a paragraph "aaaaaaa bbbbbbb cccc dddd ffffff" I need it to split it into "aaaaaaa bbbbbbb cccc" and "dddd ffffff" whenever the string " cccc" is found in the source text.

I know you can have MT automatically split after e.g. "; " or ". " etc. and that you can define a sequence after which a split is done, but I need to do the same using a string that contains more than two characters...

thanks

stef

MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility | MetaTexis Pro is not FULLY compatible

Hermann Bruns — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:23:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility
Poster: Hermann Bruns
Post title: MetaTexis Pro is not FULLY compatible

Hello Alexandre,

only TRADOS is FULLY compatible with TRADOS !!!

With MetaTexis Pro you can process TRADOS Word documents, but not the newer TRADOS TagEditor documents (TTX files).

Only with MetaTexis NET/Office you can process both the old TRADOS Word documents and the TagEditor files.

To convice the customer that you can process the files, please ask him for sample files and ask for the formats to be delivered. Then you can check and test if MetaTexis can do this. MetaTexis can do a lot, but, MetaTexis is not a TRADOS clone.

Best regards
Hermann

Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?) | All done

Krystian Aparta — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:14:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?)
Poster: Krystian Aparta
Post title: All done

I actually got a private message very quickly, saying that I should use the Yahoo MetaTexis group instead, because I wouldn't get a reply here any time soon ;)

The solution for me was to install the trial of a new Pro version of MetaTexis and export the TM.

MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility

Alexandre Chetrite — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:06:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis PRO and Trados compatibility
Poster: Alexandre Chetrite

Hello,

I purchased MetaTexis PRO recently and I wonder if it's fully compatible with Trados?

What can I do with Trados files and what can't I do ?

If a customer asks for Trados, how can I convince him or her that MetaTexis is fully compatible with Trados files (if it is really)?

Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?) | About 3 months to get an answer?

Alexandre Chetrite — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:03:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?)
Poster: Alexandre Chetrite
Post title: About 3 months to get an answer?

The original post was dated October 13th 2010 and the only answer came February 2nd 2011! Thats incredible..

Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?) | MetaTexis Lite

De Sena Viegas — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:35:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?)
Poster: De Sena Viegas
Post title: MetaTexis Lite

Hi

MetaTexis Lite is a free version, and as a free version it doesn't include some of the functions. In order to be able to export your TM you'll need at least the PRO version:

[url removed]

Best regards!

[Bearbeitet am 2011-02-02 15:52 GMT]

MetaTexis Pro and Excel files | MetaTexis Support Group

Suzanne Deliscar — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis Pro and Excel files
Poster: Suzanne Deliscar
Post title: MetaTexis Support Group

Hi Alexandre,

If you post a question to the Yahoo!MetaTexis support group, or search the threads, you will likely find a suitable answer very quickly. See below:

[url removed]

Hope this helps,

Suzanne Deliscar

MetaTexis Excel files import problem | Switch to MySQL database type

Alexandre Chetrite — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:24:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis Excel files import problem
Poster: Alexandre Chetrite
Post title: Switch to MySQL database type

Hello,

Hermann Bruns recommended me to use the MySQL type of database, not the MS Access one. It's quite simple to switch to another database type under Meta Texis (check the user guide or google or Proz.com forums)

Maybe that's the cause of the crashes?

Good day

MetaTexis Pro and Excel files

Alexandre Chetrite — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:19:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: MetaTexis Pro and Excel files
Poster: Alexandre Chetrite

Hello,

I have a problem with translating Excel files using Meta Texis Pro.

I imported the source file in MetaTexis using the Excel file import feature then worked on the translation within Word.

Some Excel cells have multiple lines of text wrapped in the cells.

But when I made the final version, a lot of lines of text were missing (they were cut).

Is this a bug?

For example (visually):

Cell 232: This is a wonderful day, and I'm going to have a great lunch,
however it would be better if I could find my missing lines and
if I could finish this translation by Sunday.

When I got the final version , I got this;

Cell 232 : This is a wonderful day, and I'm going to have a great lunch,
however it (CUT)

The results may vary, and usually it happens after 3 or 4 lines of text.

Any help welcome , otherwise I will have to manually complete all cells.

Good day.

[Edited at 2011-01-29 10:25 GMT]

Problems with Metatexis for Word (version 3.0)

dochartach — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:57:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Problems with Metatexis for Word (version 3.0)
Poster: dochartach

I'm fairly new to translation software. I had been using a free version of Metatexis lite for around 6 months. I liked the layout and the fact that that source segments could be viewed alongside translated segments. I didn't really utilise many features of the translation software. I decided to trial the newest version and to try to utilise the package more fully. I had a termbase I wanted to use and I wanted to try out the alignment tools.
Version 3.0 seems less stable than the lite version I'm used to.

I went through the usual steps in preparing my document for translation however, I specified the folder where metatexis was to create the separate metatexis version of my word file, however, on finishing work for the day Metatexis did not create a separate file but merely saved the file under it's own name with the changes implemented. I did not worry as I had a backup.
I picked up where I left off the second day and things seemed to be working well - it's a bit slow but I put that down to the size of my term base c. 190,000 entries??.
My computer froze half way during the day - I can't say for certain if this was anything to do with metatexis or not, but when I rebooted I was able to recover most of what I had translated, but the document was a normal word document. The Metatexis toolbar is now nowhere to be seen. I've tried everything but can't access any of the metatexis features or tools? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Metatexis shows both original text and translation | turn off "show hidden text"

Maria Concordia — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:55:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Metatexis shows both original text and translation
Poster: Maria Concordia
Post title: turn off "show hidden text"

Open word, go to upper left main menu, click on word options, click display, unclick "hidden text".

When you finish translation and Metatexis creates your final doc. you won t see the source text.

Hope this helps
Maria

Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?)

Krystian Aparta — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:32:00 +0000

Forum: Metatexis support
Topic: Exporting Metatexis TM (.mxa) to Trados (.tmx?)
Poster: Krystian Aparta

I have finally decided to switch to Trados after happily using Metatexis for over 2 years, because so many people requested Trados. I've purchased the SDL Trados Studio 2009, and I don't yet know a thing about it, but I would like to export my Metatexis translation database as something that can be imported into Trados. I've got two questions - can this be done, and can this be done in Metatexis Lite, because that's the version that I have been using.
If there is no way to do this in Metatexis Lite, can somebody think of a workaround? I wouldn't like to have to pay for Metatexis Pro just to be able to export a file and then never use the program again.