Sending TM as iix, mdf, mtf, mwf, tmw to Trados agency De persoon die dit onderwerp heeft geplaatst: Abigail Elvins
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Dear All,
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
I have done a short translation for an agency using wordfast (I used to use both WF and TRADOS but prefer WF so I uninstalled TRADOS) and they have asked me to send them the tm as 5 files with the following endings: iix, mdf, mtf, mwf, tmw.
Is it possible to do this with WF or do I have to ask the agency to do this with TRADOS?
Thank you very much for your time.
Abi
| | | | Platary (X)
Local time: 10:30
Duits naar Frans
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| The agency problem !!! | Sep 10, 2008 |
Abigail Elvins wrote:
Not a translation matter ... You did your job and sended a ***.*** file ? So you did your job. The rest is the client "madness" ... do not care about it : you are a translator not a wizard ??? Or ?
Best Regards,
OM
| | | | Nicolas Coyer (X) 
Colombia
Local time: 03:30
Spaans naar Frans
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Olivier MANESSE wrote: Abigail Elvins wrote:
Not a translation matter ... You did your job and sended a ***.*** file ? So you did your job. The rest is the client "madness" ... do not care about it : you are a translator not a wizard ??? Or ? Best Regards, OM
They should be able to recreate the TRADOS TM by just importing the Wordfast text-based TM or even from your translated files, I reckon.
| | | | Abigail Elvins
Portugal
Local time: 09:30
Portugees naar Engels
ONDERWERPSTARTER | That's what I was thinking... | Sep 10, 2008 |
Thank you, Nicolas. I was hoping you'd say that!
Olivier - I know what you mean!! I just feel I have to try and be a bit of a wizard as well!!
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Hello,
i do not totally agree with Olivier, if the client uses Trados and asked for a Trados-translation, then it's definetely the translator's task to send him the right type of documents. A Wordfast memory could be worthless for him, specially in your languages, as in PT they use "special caracters" as ñ etc, this messes up the memory in Trados, i had the this problem for german and spanish Wordfast & Déjàvu memories imported in Trados. At the end i recreated the memory in Win-... See more Hello,
i do not totally agree with Olivier, if the client uses Trados and asked for a Trados-translation, then it's definetely the translator's task to send him the right type of documents. A Wordfast memory could be worthless for him, specially in your languages, as in PT they use "special caracters" as ñ etc, this messes up the memory in Trados, i had the this problem for german and spanish Wordfast & Déjàvu memories imported in Trados. At the end i recreated the memory in Win-Align.
good luck ▲ Collapse
| | | | Dinny
Griekenland
Local time: 11:30
Italiaans naar Deens
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| Deliver a TMX | Sep 11, 2008 |
In my opinion you should just deliver the translation memory in the TMX format, which Trados recognizes. If the agency has a need to split the TM into 5 different formats I think they should do that by themselves. And they can do it with the TMX format you deliver.
| | | | | What about TMW memories? | Dec 3, 2008 |
Hi All,
I tried exporting my WF TM into TMX, but the agency said they couldn't open the file. I then realized that I can't open this TMX file even with my Trados 7 because it asks for a TMW format. I don't think I can export into TMW from WF, or can I?
Any ideas would be welcome!
| | | | | Trados cannot open TMX, import into a TMW file first | Dec 9, 2008 |
Hello Stefan,
You are right, you cannot export TMW from Wordfast. You can send the TMX file to the agency. They should establish a 'fresh' and empty TMW file in Trados, and then import your TMX file into that. Trados can't open TMX files, only im- and export them.
Best regards,
Albert
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