Translation Memories
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:43 am
Good evening everyone,
A question please. Is there any way to reverse engineer a TM if you have both the source and translated versions of a Flare / Lingo project?
The company I now work with previously translated a manual from English to Spanish. The translators used the .xlf files in a translation bundle but we do not know the software used. The original employees working on this have moved on taking the corporate memory with them.
The English manual has been updated and they now wish to translate again to Spanish but I find they never received a Translation Memory file with their translated documents. Obviously we would prefer not to have to translate the whole 400+ pages again.
I only way I can think of if we can't get a TM is to only send the new bits to the translators (I know exactly what I have added) and then add the translated new bits into the Spanish Flare program to update it. The regulators may not be happy with that and we would meet the same situation with the next update.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanking you,
George
A question please. Is there any way to reverse engineer a TM if you have both the source and translated versions of a Flare / Lingo project?
The company I now work with previously translated a manual from English to Spanish. The translators used the .xlf files in a translation bundle but we do not know the software used. The original employees working on this have moved on taking the corporate memory with them.
The English manual has been updated and they now wish to translate again to Spanish but I find they never received a Translation Memory file with their translated documents. Obviously we would prefer not to have to translate the whole 400+ pages again.
I only way I can think of if we can't get a TM is to only send the new bits to the translators (I know exactly what I have added) and then add the translated new bits into the Spanish Flare program to update it. The regulators may not be happy with that and we would meet the same situation with the next update.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanking you,
George