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Sometimes, when I'm angry and upset, I feel like saying that any agency that convinces their end-clients to use XTM does them a disservice. I apologise for my opinion.
[quote]Fernando Larrazabal wrote:
According to Wordfast Wire #14, "Until now, when you import a Wordfast package (.glp extension), the import wizard would offer to create the project in t
This also happens in my target language. The word that normally means "family" really means extended family, i.e. uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces. There is a separate word that means "fam
[quote]Magnus Rubensson wrote:
If the contract is with a person rather than with your company, then I would argue that the retailer in question is an employer. [/quote]
Whether a person
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
I believe a non-paying member just needs to go to one of the pages and see if the option to submit an entry is available. [/quote]
I suppose I could register a fak
[quote]Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT wrote:
Here an example: [/quote]
Notice how the scammer deliberately makes mistakes, to ensure that the only people who reply to him are truly gullible<
[quote]Rivkah Ben-Yisrael wrote:
I'm translating a book from Hebrew to English. Each chapter opens with a quotation related to that chapter. Most are taken from Hebrew books that have bee
[quote]John Di Rico wrote:
I think the only solution is to ask your client to export the SDLXLIFF file as a bilingual Word file, then revise said file with tracked changes. [/quote]
No, AFAIK the change tracking in WFP7 and the change tracking in Trados 2022 or similar are entirely different and incompatible. WFP7 handles change tracking by keeping track of all old
[quote]Yuri Alwis wrote:
Now that you have mentioned about invoicing in different currencies, do you use the same sequential numbering for all your USD/EUR/GBP for the invoices made in
I've been unable to figure out what causes this. In the meantime, I've created these four macros and assigned new shortcut keys to them:
Curiously, the TAB key does work inside
[quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
When sending a message from Gmail, how to make that the recipient will see the message
as high priority in his/her inbox? [/quote]
As far as I know, this is
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
You just need to be aware that issue dates must always progress. You are not allowed to issue e.g. invoice no. 22 with a date of 22/7 and then invoice no. 23
[quote]Yuri Alwis wrote:
The amount in the invoice that we made for the client using online payment is based on the net amount we received (meaning already deducted with the fee of the
[quote]Yuri Alwis wrote:
From my understanding, the invoice should mention:
1) Invoice Number (should it be sequential, what if we have clients who uses online payment liek STRIPE, whic
[quote]Tom wrote:
This topic I'm posting is actually a test to see if it displays with blue highlighting. [/quote]
So, let's all test it.
Here is an example of highlighted text us
I understand that WhatsApp and Telegram are now very common ways of communicating, even in business, but even so, I never accept a job where the person contacts me via Telegram first. I o
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
That makes sense, yes, but the benefits of specialising in a field aren't necessarily transferable between source languages. [/quote]
Sure, I did not mean to imp
[quote]finnword1 wrote:
They have received 22 "fives" on a very same day. Anybody have any comments? [/quote]
They sent a request to all of their translators to rate them on the Blue Boa
[quote]Rita Translator wrote:
I imported a bilingual SDLXLIFF to proofread it, but I can't edit the segments (the right-click edit target option is also grayed out). [/quote]
Are those<
[quote]Amanda Chiharu Ueta wrote:
I'd like to report them, but what should I do? [/quote]
The place on ProZ.com to report non-payment is the Blue Board:
https://www.proz.com/blueboard
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
Why do people recommend specialising when it comes to subject areas, but diversifying when it comes to language pairs? [/quote]
For two different reasons. You i
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
Current recommended 34" multi purpose monitors on Prad.de (there's a curved IPS one from LG in first place, followed by a plane Asus). [/quote]
When I looked at th
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
... I can control the angle of the light falling on the screen... [/quote]
I went out of my way to find a NON-REFLECTIVE screen.<
Trados 2022's SR1 version has been released. A detailled description of the enhancements and bug fixes in this release are mentioned [url=https://docs.rws.com/binary/1076802/802650/x/
Hello everyone
For anyone who bought a 3440 pixel monitor -- are you happy with your decision w.r.t. curved or non-curved? Do you regret not choosing the other option?
I'm thinking
[quote]Ice Scream wrote:
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote in another thread:
To be honest, the fact that you have only one language pair might be a bigger concern. I'm not sure I would get th
[quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
I made a conversion to TMX from Xbench...[/quote]
You might have used the free version of Xbench, which is supposedly not Unicode aware, so double-check your
Hello everyone
I don't edit in Word 365 a lot, but a while ago I have started having this problem: the up/down arrows no longer worked. Today I discovered that pressing ENTER no longer
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
Also you can use this converter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tEzHk nlJCaCz_4gUKrdoSx3lFwGKYFVl/view?usp=sharing [/quote]
Yes, this is Odent's WfConverter
[quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
How can I open a file with extension .SDLTB (SDL Term Base)? I have memoQ, but not Trados. [/quote]
You can convert the SDLTB file to Excel using the SDL Glo
[quote]expressisverbis wrote:
You must have the sdlppx files (the return package), the sdlproj files (the files you are translating), and TM/Termbase. [/quote]
Perhaps you meant this,
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
Both Western Union and PayPal are extremely expensive and both keep up to 8 per cent of the amount (including the cost of a poor exchange rate)... [/quote]
[Following on from [url=https://www.proz.com/forum/money_matters/3627 50-seeking_a_good_viable_alternative_to_wise-page3 .html#3002446]this post[/url].]
[quote]ATIL KAYHAN wrote
I wonder if you should be using a company like [url=https://www.mintformations.co.uk/company-form ation/non-uk-resident/register-uk-company-non-resi dent/]this one[/url] (I don't know them
[quote]Brigita Marković wrote:
Please advise me what to use for my clients for payments (bank account, pay pal or something else). [/quote]
It's best to ask someone else from Croati
POP Peeper automatically filled in the information for me when I told it that I'm using Hotmail. But the information was also the same as that which I get when I google for this informati
[quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
Poppy - email notifier - how to setup [/quote]
Okay, so the program's full name is Jan GP Sijm's Poppy. The last update was 5.8.2 which was released in 2008.
[quote]Angel Llacuna wrote:
Poppy - email notifier [/quote]
There are a number of email notifiers called "Poppy" (which is not surprising, because of the word play with "POP3" which is a
Another (faster) option:
Once you've got the list of paths, you can use regex to turn this:
D:DXF filesAB1234567_Machine_Maintenance.dxf
into this:
FileMove ("D:DXF filesAB12
[quote]Robert Rietvelt wrote:
I converted them with Studio 2017, and I am working now with 2019. I don't know if the latest version has the same functionality. [/quote]
It was my underst
Well, I would first get a list of all file paths. On my computer, I'd use Agent Ransack and do a search for *.* in the file name field. Then select all files in the list and right-click
[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Do you just want to translate a list, or do you want to actually rename the files? [/quote]
I actually have to rename the files.
Do you just want to translate a list, or do you want to actually rename the files?
Added: If you do a search for *.* in Agent Ransack, you can copy the paths of all files.
There are
[quote]Robert Rietvelt wrote:
Since compatibility is the magic word for most CAT tools, I would suggest your friend invest in a new version of Trados, or shops around for another [free or
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