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Arabic in Word for Mac 2009 | Arabic on Mac

Robert Tucker — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:38:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Arabic in Word for Mac 2009
Poster: Robert Tucker
Post title: Arabic on Mac

There are known problems writing Arabic in MS Word.

[quote]Not all software that you can put on your Mac is able to handle Arabic text. Unfortunately, that includes the most common word processor of all, Microsoft Word...[/quote]
[url removed] #cimm

[quote]June 11, 2011

MS Office 2011 for MAC has problems with Arabic BUT PowerPoint does support Arabic, Word does not by default but I found a solution to make it accept Arabic writing. Excel does not support Arabic yet.

Word will support Arabic if you do the following: [/quote]
[url removed] (q.v.)

Arabic in Word for Mac 2009

dmoamin — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:55:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Arabic in Word for Mac 2009
Poster: dmoamin

Hi,

I have a Mac Mid 2009 and for some reason when I type in Arabic, the font isn’t connected, the letters don’t connect to each other properly, it works for PowerPoint, but not for Word. I don’t know if there is away to fix that?

Thank you for your help,

Dima

Resource : Robert & Collins CD-ROM available for Mac OS X | nice

whitejie — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:05:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Resource : Robert & Collins CD-ROM available for Mac OS X
Poster: whitejie
Post title: nice

good still waiting good one

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Also

Maja Zrobecka — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: Also

When you go to Parallels/Devices/Sharing/Configure what settings do you have? I have:
Share folder: All disks
Shared profile: Unchecked
SmartMount: Checked

Share Windows:
Checked Access Windows folders from Mac
Checked Mount virtual disks to Mac desktop

Do you have the same?

Thank you.
Maja

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Bad news

Maja Zrobecka — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:37:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: Bad news

Johanna,

I have upgraded to Parallels version 7 and just tried to translate a document saved in the Mac environment, but unfortunately the error message showed again "Invalid URI: Host name could not be parsed".

To give you more background info: the TM and Termbase are saved in the Win environment and the .doc file in the Mac one. I now wonder if it can have anything to do with the fact that I use Office 2003? I am planning to upgrade this, too, but am not even sure if this is going to help.

Maja

Translation Office 3000, Practicount, Anycount and more | WordCounter is pretty cool

bruceg — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:27:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Translation Office 3000, Practicount, Anycount and more
Poster: bruceg
Post title: WordCounter is pretty cool

I tried wordcounter based on this thread; it works nicely.

My only issue is that it includes XML tags and doesn't allow me to filter specific tags.

Cheers,
Bruce

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Don't be embarrassed Maja!

Johanna Liljenzin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:07:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Johanna Liljenzin
Post title: Don't be embarrassed Maja!

Maja,

There is no reason to be embarrassed for using old software - as long as everything works, there is no need to change just for the sake of it.

However, Parallels has really moved on from the early versions, and I think you will experience fewer problems with a newer version (6 or 7 are both good, in my opinion; version 5 gave me more trouble).

Kind regards,
Johanna

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | I did not think about it!

Maja Zrobecka — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: I did not think about it!

[quote]Johanna Liljenzin wrote:

Maja,

Which version of Parallels do you run?
[/quote]

Johanna,

I am ashamed to admit that I use an archaic version of Parallels, namely 3.0. If this is working for you, then surely it must work for me too when I upgrade my soft!

I will try and do it today/tomorrow to see if it makes a difference!

Many thanks.
Maja

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Not longer necessary to save on the C: drive

Johanna Liljenzin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:33:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Johanna Liljenzin
Post title: Not longer necessary to save on the C: drive

Maja,

Which version of Parallels do you run? In some older versions of Parallels it was necessary to store some files on the C:drive, but that's no longer the case with Parallels 7. These days I have full file sharing between my Mac and virtual PC, and I store everything - including TM:s and project folders - on the Mac side only. (This way I can access all files also when the virtual PC is turned off.)

If you already run Parallels 7 - do you have full file sharing turned on? If not, that could be the reason why you can't access your Mac files from the virtual PC.

Kind regards,
Johanna

[Edited at 2012-03-14 13:33 GMT]

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Disabling shared folders

Maja Zrobecka — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: Disabling shared folders

[quote]Stephanie Busch wrote:

What I did was to disable Shared Profiles on the Options tab in the virtual machine (Windows) configuration. Since then Studio has been running smoothly, though I can no longer access the C:/ folder from the Finder.

HTH!
Stephanie [/quote]

Hi Stephanie,

I saw the message you quote when I started looking into the problem, but I would not want to disable anything, as I want to have access to everything from everywhere ;)

I'd rather go with the solution Johan is suggesting, and have two folders or just save all to the C: drive. At least I know the reason for this error so many thanks to all your answers!

Maja

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Stick with Parallels and upgrade RAM

Johan Kjallman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Johan Kjallman
Post title: Stick with Parallels and upgrade RAM

Hi again Maja,

IMHO Bootcamp is not really needed on fairly new and powerful Macs, as Windows can run very fast and stable in a virtual machine. Another huge con is that it doesn't allow you to use web browsers, mail, calendar, file handling etc on the Mac side while having translation software open in Windows. I'd rather upgrade the RAM memory if you experience performance issues. A word of advice, don't buy the extra RAM from an official Apple retailer, as the exact same memory (but with a small apple logo on it) can cost many times more. I upgraded my MB Pro memory from 4 to 8 GB for 40 euro (Kingston).

BR/Johan

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Previous forum thread

Stephanie Busch — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Stephanie Busch
Post title: Previous forum thread

Hi Maja,

you might like to have a look at this thread:

[url removed]

Actually I remember having a similar problem when I installed Studio 2009 on my Mac in a Parallels Windows 7 virtual machine.

What I did was to disable Shared Profiles on the Options tab in the virtual machine (Windows) configuration. Since then Studio has been running smoothly, though I can no longer access the C:/ folder from the Finder.

HTH!
Stephanie

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | I see your point now.

Maja Zrobecka — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: I see your point now.

Yes, it seems that the only disadvantage can be the amount of space taken. I currently have 4 GB RAM and this seems to suffice. Yet to open Studio, it can take some time and if I run other software, it becomes a bit slow. I have to re-think what is best for me.

A colleague for the Polish forum directed me to this:

"Re: Using Studio 2011 on Mac with Parallel desktop

Trados works fine within Parallels, but make sure you create a Bootcamp
partition and install all the Windows and Trados stuff on that, not on the main
drive, and get Parallels to use that partition. Sorry I'm a bit vague, but I had
someone do it for me (I can recommend someone in London). It's a matter of data
integrity in the event of a problem. Here are the outline instructions (thanks
to Edric Filho):

Create with BootCamp a real, not a virtual, Windows machine, install Windows,
Office and Trados/Studio, THEN reboot in OS X and, using Parallels, create a
virtual drive using the Windows partition.

DO NOT create a virtual HD with Windows from the Mac environment: make a
BootCamp Windows partition, install all Trados/Studio/Office things, reboot in
Snow Leopard and then you make Parallels use that partition as the virtual HD.

Fact is, Trados/Studio may present all kinds of problems inside a virtual
machine, and the Mac community should always have their /Parallels Windows
sessions based on an already-existing BootCamp HD. That works as a great
safeguard: if anything goes wrong in the virtual session, reboot in Windows and
everything should be OK.

Just go to Applications> Utilities> BootCamp Assistant and you'll be impressed
how easy everything is. For me, a decades Windows user, that simplicity was
amazing. Just follow the prompts: I suggest a 50-80 GB partition for all things
Windows...

After creating the partition, install Windows (you must have the original DVD).
Reboot in Windows, install all things, reboot again in OS X, go to Parallels and
allow it to create its virtual disk using the Windows partition.

If possible, go for Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit."

So there is yet another way of making things work more stable, but I would have to refurbish everything if I were to go with the above solution.

Do you have any views on the above?

Thanks
Maja

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | not necessarily everything on Win side

Johan Kjallman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:22:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Johan Kjallman
Post title: not necessarily everything on Win side

Hi again,

it's not really as painstaking as it may seem, if you ask me. The downside is that you need you use up the double amount of disc space, unless you do your back ups directly from Windows. Make sure that the partitioned hard drive for Parallels is not to small.

I save all my incoming source files on the Mac side. Then, when I drag and drop them into my Cat tool, the software automatically creates the necessary databases on the Win side (I have created a c:/MemoQ folder which I synchronise with the Mac side). I don't need to touch these files, they just work silently in the background and occupy space. When the translation is finished, my default export path is the same folder on the Mac side where the source files are located. So it's easy to drag and drop the files from there into Mail etc.
Hope that helps

BR/Johan

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | Hi Johan

Maja Zrobecka — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:05:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka
Post title: Hi Johan

and thanks for your input. If this is the case with the new Studio, then it seems that the only sensible solution is to save all files on the C: drive. It would be too complicated to keep different files on different parts of the drive. This is really annoying to be honest with you as I will have to modify my folders' structure.

I was hoping there is an easier way to solve this issue :(

Maja

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message | better off using the Windows side

Johan Kjallman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:58:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Johan Kjallman
Post title: better off using the Windows side

Hi Maja,

I think it has to do with the way Studio and other Cat-tools of this generation accesses and updates the databases continuously while you move around in the translation grid, while Tag Editor only changes the files when you click on save (or something like that). AFAIK you can keep your source files, target files, exported tmx files etc. on the Mac side, but need to keep the project files (the databases that Studio creates for your source files) and other resources that Studio uses (TM:s, termbases etc.) on the local c: drive in order to guarantee stability, as the Mac side through Parallels is considered a network drive which causes instability. I speak mainly from a MemoQ point of view, but it should be the same for Studio I think (hardly use it).
I use Syncback SE to synchronise all these files every hour to my dropbox folder on the Mac side.

Kind regards,
Johan

Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message

Maja Zrobecka — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:38:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Studio 2011, Mac OS and error message
Poster: Maja Zrobecka

Dear all,

I work on a MacBookPro, have Parallels and until recently worked with Trados 2007. I never had any problems with it.
All files and TMs were stored on the Mac part of the drive, and I could access them no problem from Trados. I never stored any translation-related files on the C: drive.

Now, a couple of weeks ago I upgraded to Studio 2011 and my issues started. I noticed that I cannot keep any files used with Studio on the Mac part of the drive. Instead, I have to save everything to the C: drive, dedicated for Windows.

If I want to upgrade a TM I used with Trados 2007 and select the file saved on the Mac part of drive, I get the following message:

"Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed"

My question is whether anyone here experienced similar problems and/or how to solve them? I want to repeat that I was able to use files saved on the Mac drive with Trados 2007, but not Studio.

On Parallels, I have Win XP SP3, Office 2003.

Many thanks!
Maja

Upgrade to OS X Lion / Trados via Parallels | No Lion

Tom in London — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:08:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Upgrade to OS X Lion / Trados via Parallels
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: No Lion

[quote]Lydia Farago wrote:

Hello everybody

Some time ago, I partitioned the hard disk of my iMac and installed Parallels and Windows XP in order to be able to use Trados. It works fine. Now, I'd like to upgrade to OS X Lion but fear that there might be trouble running Parallels and Windows. Has anybody upgraded to Lion with Parallels, Windows and Trados installed on Snow Leopard? And have you had any problems running the programmes after the upgrade?

I am grateful for all your advice. [/quote]

Hi Lydia

Lion is a mess. Personally I would advise you to stay with Snow Leopard. If you want to know why/how it's a mess, you could regularly read the Lion discussion forums, here:

[url removed]

Some people refer to Lion as "Apple's Vista". Anyway, Lion is already out of date and will be followed next summer by Mountain Lion.

Snow Leopard is an excellent OS. I struggled with Lion for a month and found that it was slowing me down and interfering with my workflow, so I went back to Snow Leopard. Fortunately that was easy because I had a complete bootable clone of my hard drive, on an external FireWire drive.

If you're using a Mac, whatever version of the OS you have, you should always have a complete bootable clone, regularly updated.

[Edited at 2012-02-23 08:13 GMT]

Upgrade to OS X Lion / Trados via Parallels

Lydia Farago — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Upgrade to OS X Lion / Trados via Parallels
Poster: Lydia Farago

Hello everybody

Some time ago, I partitioned the hard disk of my iMac and installed Parallels and Windows XP in order to be able to use Trados. It works fine. Now, I'd like to upgrade to OS X Lion but fear that there might be trouble running Parallels and Windows. Has anybody upgraded to Lion with Parallels, Windows and Trados installed on Snow Leopard? And have you had any problems running the programmes after the upgrade?

I am grateful for all your advice.

Translation Tool for MAC | Speed of Wordfast Classic in Word 2011

Dominique Pivard — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Translation Tool for MAC
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title: Speed of Wordfast Classic in Word 2011

[quote]Dominique Pivard wrote:
[quote]Marie-Andree Dionne wrote:
How many of us would like WordFast to be compatible with Office?
If there are enough of us, maybe we can let them know?
[/quote]
Wordfast Classic could not work with Word 2008 because of Microsoft's decision not to include VBA in Office 2008, but it does work with Word 2011, now that VBA is back in Office 2011.
See [url removed] [/quote]
I'll add that Wordfast Classic is now very speedy when used in Word 2011 (compared to previous versions such as Word 2004 or Word X). You can get a feel of it here:

[url removed]

Please note this is a "quick & dirty" video I recorded "off the hip", without any post-editing tricks that could make operations seem faster than they are.

Setup used in the video: Oct-2010 MacBook Air with Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.6.8 (aka Snow Leopard), fully patched Word 2011 (14.1.4), Wordfast Classic 6.02u.

Copernic for Mac???? | Still looking for a copernic like desktop search

Olga GB — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:39:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Copernic for Mac????
Poster: Olga GB
Post title: Still looking for a copernic like desktop search

I have the same problem: the way Copernic works is ideal for translators. Please, if you find a similar solution for Mac, update this forum.
Thanks to all!

Word 2011 for Mac suddenly not counting words in header | Word never counts words in headers or footers

Daniel Grau — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:23:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Word 2011 for Mac suddenly not counting words in header
Poster: Daniel Grau
Post title: Word never counts words in headers or footers

To count words in headers or footers, you need to select them and count them separately.

For the word count to include text within floating boxes, don't select any text (the cursor should be blinking).

If you select text, Word will count the number of words in the selection, and if you select the complete document (Select All = Command A), it will exclude text boxes. However, this lets you calculate the number of words in text boxes: simply subtract both totals (the one obtained with Select All from the one obtained with the cursor blinking).

Word 2011 for Mac suddenly not counting words in header

Maria del Carmen Blanco Rodriguez — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:30:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Word 2011 for Mac suddenly not counting words in header
Poster: Maria del Carmen Blanco Rodriguez

Hello all,
Something odd happened to me today when starting a new translation in Word 2011 for Mac. I have the "Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes check box" activated under word count, however when I started adding text to the header of the document, word kept telling me there were 0 words (I also used the word count tool from the toolbar, but it kept saying there were 0 words). I don't know what is this happening and I can't find any solution either, and the odd part is that this happened today.
I had to open the translated document in wordfast and do the word count with the analyze feature, but I would really like for word to do the job correctly.
Can anyone help me solve this please? Thank you

Counting software for Mac | Word Counter

Emmanuelle Riffault — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Emmanuelle Riffault
Post title: Word Counter

Hello Lise,
I've been using Word Counter for several years now. Maybe other programms appeared since on the market ;-)

Liebe Grüße

Emmanuelle

Counting software for Mac | Any new counting tools for Mac OS X?

Lise Smidth — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:31:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Lise Smidth
Post title: Any new counting tools for Mac OS X?

Hi,

it has been a while since this thread was first started - maybe someone has found a good counting tool (like Anycount or PractiCount) that works on Mac OS X? - I need such a tool (or other suggestions on how to count severas word or excel files on Mac)

Thanks a lot in advance

iPad2 won't turn on - over and over | Have you searched any Apple support forums?

Cetacea — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:55:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: iPad2 won't turn on - over and over
Poster: Cetacea
Post title: Have you searched any Apple support forums?

There are a few proposed solutions out there. At any rate, it sounds like a battery problem or some other kind of hardware issue. I guess the best thing to do would be to take it to next Apple store and have them deal with it.

iPad2 won't turn on - over and over

Heloisa Ferreira — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:53:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: iPad2 won't turn on - over and over
Poster: Heloisa Ferreira

Hi all,

I know this is not about a Mac troubleshoot, but it's an Apple product anyway...

I own an iPad 2 which I use for entertainment, communication, and also work (as a second monitor, mainly for proofreading). I never misused, it's been handled safely, in a dry place.

This morning, as usual, I woke up, checked e-mail messages, read my Twitter, browsed the web, turned it off and left. After lunch, I tried to turn it on and it didn't work. I tried the Apple solution of pressing the front and upper buttons at the same time for a few seconds, and it reseted (this is called hard reset). Only thing was that I lost everything, data, everything, and had to configure it as it was brand new.

After doing that during the afternoon, I used it again, normally, and left for dinner. When I came back and tried to turn it on, it wouldn't start again, and I had to reset it AGAIN and configure everything AGAIN...

Has anyone had this problem before? What can it be? Now I'm saving all my backup on iCloud, just in case...

Translation Tool for MAC | CafeTran Espresso 2012 has been released

Hans Lenting — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:15:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Translation Tool for MAC
Poster: Hans Lenting
Post title: CafeTran Espresso 2012 has been released

The Internet, December 23, 2011 - Release of CafeTran Espresso 2012 for OS X, Linux and Windows

Dear Cafetranslators,

It is my pleasure to announce officially the new version of CafeTran called CafeTran Espresso 2012. It features a lot changes in the user interface to make it much more intuitive and user friendly. There are also numerous enhancements to existing functions as well as new important features such as optional prefix matching (stemming), QA, filtering and sorting segments, implementation of the new Google Translate API v. 2.

The current manual is still outdated but YouTube video tutorials on various workflows will follow next. I hope the first one will appear by the end of this year.

The trial version of CT Espresso is available for download at:
[url removed]

Soon I will send e-mail information to users on how to upgrade to the new version. Please, stay tuned... .

BR,
Igor Kmitowski

OSX Lion - any feedback? | Done and THANK YOU

Aude Sylvain — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:41:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: OSX Lion - any feedback?
Poster: Aude Sylvain
Post title: Done and THANK YOU

Hello Adam and all

I followed your recommendations and very clear instructions and installed Lion from a bootable USB device on a fully clean machine. Everything seems to run much better than earlier, up to date I had no Mac application hanging - which by itself is a tremendous improvement!

I am currently installing Windows 7; I decided to create a new VM instead of importing the backup of the earlier one just in case there was also a problem with the VM... fingers crossed!

Many thanks again for your help, I am extremely grateful.

Have a great day,
Aude

PS. Adam, just in case, it's better to use the tutorial posted on redmondpie.com (the one you quoted first). The other one is easer to follow thanks to the screenshots but they omitted the step concerning the formatting of the USB device as a “GUID Partition Table”.

[quote]Adam Podstawczynski wrote:
An example on how to do this using a USB memory: [url removed] [/quote]

OSX Lion - any feedback? | -

Aude Sylvain — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:38:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: OSX Lion - any feedback?
Poster: Aude Sylvain
Post title: -

Thanks Adam!

I can't make the install now because I have a deadline coming, but I will proceed asap and let you know.

MANY thanks again,

All the best

Aude