http://www.proz.com/forums/ Topic: Article: 12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:44:21 +0000 Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:44:21 +0000 http://www.proz.com/faq support@proz.com (ProZ.com Support) support@proz.com (ProZ.com Support) Timothy Barton Translation Article Knowledgebase http://www.proz.com/post/289448#289448 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:29:00 +0000 <b>Forum:</b> Translation Article Knowledgebase<br/><b>Topic:</b> Article: 12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation<br/><b>Poster:</b> Timothy Barton<br/><b>Post title:</b> A few comments<br/><br/>RTF is indeed the best format, since it is a standard format. It is NOT a word format! It should be placed on a higher level in the hierarchy than .doc, since it can be opened by more programs.<br /><br />You make no mention of using OCR programs for "graphic" pdfs and faxes.<br /><br />I don't see why one should be obliged to use WinZip. This software must be paid for (yes, it is not free software, as many people believe), whereas if, for example, you choose IZArc, you don't have to pay anything, and it makes no difference to the customer as you can produce the same .zip format as with WinZip, as well as the .rar format (which is probably not a good one to use since many e-mail servers seem to reject it). ProZ.com Staff Translation Article Knowledgebase http://www.proz.com/post/256740#256740 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:55:14 +0000 <b>Forum:</b> Translation Article Knowledgebase<br/><b>Topic:</b> Article: 12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation<br/><b>Poster:</b> ProZ.com Staff<br/><br/>This topic is for discussion of the ProZ.com translation article "12 Easy Rules of preparing documents for translation".