Comments for In-House Translators - A Dying Breed

Comment on Trados customer service (or customer service in general) by Cameron Rogers

Cameron Rogers — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:07:48 +0000

when running a business, the first thing you should do is always establish a good customer service”`*

Comment on Check spelling in HTML files by Carla Francisco

Carla Francisco — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:18:05 +0000

I also translate a lot of HTML files with TagEditor (and yes, I also like it - and I agree with everything you say here. A very useful post (I even managed to overlook that out-of-place “it’s” at the beginning and continue reading…

Comment on Context please! by Halina

Halina — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:34:21 +0000

I don’t actually think that it is to do with being a beginner or an experienced translator, for it is a basic knowledge that you should translate sense for sense rather than word for word. If you haven’t grasped it, it is best to steer clear of translating.

Comment on Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro by Béranger

Béranger — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:37:11 +0000

http://winmerge.org/ is free, open-source and does the same task!

Comment on Feeling the economy by Lotta per le tariffe per traduzioni tecniche

Lotta per le tariffe per traduzioni tecniche — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:14 +0000

[...] Economic Crisis? Some LSPs Ask “What Crisis?” (inglese) aldrige.de: Feeling the economy [...]

Comment on Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro by Kim

Kim — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:28:21 +0000

I often send projects out for review too, I normally turn on track changes before I send the files, in case the recipient doesn’t know how to do it.

Comment on Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro by Susanne Aldridge III

Susanne Aldridge III — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:35:12 +0000

Yes, this is one of the examples of not using your tools too the fullest extend! I have ExamDiff since 3 years but never assumed it could do anything but flat file formats but apparently it also does Excel, zip archives, PDF (probably only non-graphic) and PPT, though I never tried those.

Comment on Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro by Kevin Lossner

Kevin Lossner — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:12:00 +0000

Welcome back, Susanne. This looks very useful. I use MS Word’s compare function rather often, but it sometimes drives me nuts for the very reasons you cite.

Comment on Cool Tool - ExamDiff Pro by Sarah Dillon

Sarah Dillon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:10:43 +0000

Great tip, thanks Susanne. Think I’ll give it a whirl, I can think of a couple of contexts in which it would be useful.

Comment on Hello Becky by Becky

Becky — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:59:34 +0000

Howdy Susanne!