The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive to translate are in PDF format. What do we do then? Here are some tips that can be of much use when converting PDF documents. 1. Ask if there are [...]
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Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Customized Glossaries for Specialized Translation
Monday, March 12th, 2012When a translator begins to work as a true career, he or she believes that the job consists of simply receiving texts to be translated without any further data on the area of specialization. This is far from today’s reality. The translation industry right now is highly specialized by sector of the market. Therefore, each [...]
What Is TEP and Why Is It So Important?
Monday, March 5th, 2012Although clients are not familiar with this acronym, TEP is a cornerstone of most translation agencies’ normal work flow. It simply refers to the three most common steps of a translation project: translation (translation of the text) + editing (text editing) + proofreading (review of target text). These three steps are essential for a high-quality [...]
Linguistic Pre-edition
Monday, February 20th, 2012Pre-edition, as we have seen in other posts, may include several procedures: a text can be pre-edited both from the point of view of the format as well as the text itself and any of its typographical errors. The handling of the format in all its forms: tables, images, text boxes, tables of contents, headers [...]
Planning Large Projects
Monday, February 6th, 2012Translating a paragraph of 100 words might take 10 minutes or half an hour, depending on the complexity of the text. Following the same logic, translating an entire page of about 400 words in Microsoft Word can take between half an hour or an hour. Again, in a broad and general sense, these are the [...]
How to Lower Your Translation Costs
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Use of Translation Memories Usually, companies expect to have the final approved version of a document before sending it for translation. What you probably do not realize is that by using a TM (Translation Memory), the translator can start working on the project before it has been officially approved. With a TM, costs and delivery [...]
What Is Included in a Budget
Monday, January 16th, 2012It is always good to have transparent and open accounts with customers, but in times of crisis this subject should be one of the main business objectives. At Trusted Translations, we try to be as clear as possible with all of our rates and charges. Along these lines, our rates consist of: 1. A team [...]
MS Project for Translation Projects
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Microsoft Project is a very useful tool for planning and monitoring projects of all kinds. To make full use of its benefits to efficiently apply it to translation projects, you must have basic knowledge of project management and follow some simple rules. MS Project has many functions and they can be overwhelming for new users. [...]
Why Include DTP Services in Your Project?
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012In other posts we have defined DTP (Desktop Publishing) within the realm of translation. Simply put, it is the use of computer programs for the treatment of graphic displays, in combination with other tools for layout and design, printers and a long list of items that work as aids for the entire process. Normally the documents [...]
Can Post-editing Be Used Every Time?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011We have seen in previous posts that post-editing is the human process of reviewing a text translated by a machine to give it grammatical and semantic sense to a particular text. But can this system be used in all cases? As an option, it can be used, but at times it is not profitable or efficient [...]
