How To Clean A TM And Not Die Trying
As we mentioned in a previous post, cleaning the translation memory (TM) of one of our largest and oldest clients was a task that required
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December 7, 2018
Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files
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
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March 20, 2012
Customized Glossaries for Specialized Translation
When a translator begins to work as a true career, he or she believes that the job consists of simply receiving texts to be translated
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March 12, 2012
What Is TEP and Why Is It So Important?
Although clients are not familiar with this acronym, TEP is a cornerstone of most translation agencies’ normal work flow. It simply refers to the three
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March 5, 2012
Linguistic Pre-edition
Pre-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
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February 20, 2012
Planning Large Projects
Translating a paragraph of 100 words might take 10 minutes or half an hour, depending on the complexity of the text. Following the same logic,
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February 6, 2012
How to Lower Your Translation Costs
Use of Translation Memories Usually, companies expect to have the final approved version of a document before sending it for translation. What you probably do
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January 23, 2012
What Is Included in a Budget
It is always good to have transparent and open accounts with customers, but in times of crisis this subject should be one of the main
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January 16, 2012
MS Project for Translation Projects
Microsoft Project is a very useful tool for planning and monitoring projects of all kinds. To make full use of its benefits to efficiently apply
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January 12, 2012
Why Include DTP Services in Your Project?
In 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
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January 3, 2012
Can Post-editing Be Used Every Time?
We 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
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December 20, 2011
AutoSuggest: How Does It Work?
We recently took some time to talk about AutoSuggest. No, it is not a new for of self-help self or anything like that. Instead, it
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December 15, 2011
