Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Converting TMs and glossaries between CATs
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: Possible solution
[quote]Louise TAYLOR wrote:
1. I created the file in WordFast Anywhere.
2. The file that the client sent to me was a .docx file. So it looks like this will not work.
I can't believe it is so hard to work between systems, it is only data after all. Other translators must have these problems as clients often want one CAT or another. The only reason I didn't do the work in Wordfast this weekend was that storms in the region caused damage to our phone services. Of course Wordfast is online! So I used my standalone package.
Would aligning the input and output Word documents give me something to work with?
I know that all this time working on a solution to create a file would be better spent in copy/ paste into Wordfast to get the right file. But I am now determined in case I have anything like this in the future. [/quote]
If your client wants the translation as a txml file (directly from the docx, not sldxliff), you should be able to make a new txml based directly on the docx file and use your Wordfast tm to retranslate the file. Hopefully the segmentation is close, but typically there are some differences, so with some small editing, you should be able to submit the txml.
Topic: Converting TMs and glossaries between CATs
Poster: Lianne van de Ven
Post title: Possible solution
[quote]Louise TAYLOR wrote:
1. I created the file in WordFast Anywhere.
2. The file that the client sent to me was a .docx file. So it looks like this will not work.
I can't believe it is so hard to work between systems, it is only data after all. Other translators must have these problems as clients often want one CAT or another. The only reason I didn't do the work in Wordfast this weekend was that storms in the region caused damage to our phone services. Of course Wordfast is online! So I used my standalone package.
Would aligning the input and output Word documents give me something to work with?
I know that all this time working on a solution to create a file would be better spent in copy/ paste into Wordfast to get the right file. But I am now determined in case I have anything like this in the future. [/quote]
If your client wants the translation as a txml file (directly from the docx, not sldxliff), you should be able to make a new txml based directly on the docx file and use your Wordfast tm to retranslate the file. Hopefully the segmentation is close, but typically there are some differences, so with some small editing, you should be able to submit the txml.