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21 April, 2017

Five indispensable online conversion tools for translators

As translators we all need more than our CAT tools every now and then. Although CAT tools can do a lot of tasks for us, they often cannot convert files, values and units properly. They also are not able to make advanced measurements, like converting square feet to square metres. Tools like conversion software and calculators are then quite useful. There was a time when we needed software or advanced mathematical calculators for that but in this time of cloud computing there are many more options. In this article I share five indispensable online conversion tools that can prove very valuable to translators.

by Pieter Beens

18 February, 2015

Translator Tech Tips

Opening a large file in Trados Studio 2014

It might not be a surprise for frequent visitors of my blog: I’m an avid user of Trados Studio 2014 – not because it’s the best but because it works so easy. Especially the option to open a document without creating a whole project is great. I’m using that feature a couple of times a day and it really speeds up my work. But last week I had to open a large document in Trados Studio 2014 and that resulted in an annoying error. Here’s a workaround.

by Pieter Beens

8 September, 2014

Translator Tech Tips

MemoQ mscorlib error: solution

In my daily life I am an avid user of Trados Studio 2014. In my humble opinion it is not the very best CAT tool ever made, but it is quite easy to work with. For more advanced tasks I use MemoQ, which I love for it’s intelligence but hate for it’s bold interface. But when I use it, I like it.
Until last week: I got a MemoQ mscorlib error which rendered the translation software useless at all. None of my installed versions, MemoQ 2013 R2, MemoQ 6.2 and MemoQ 2014 (what I love is that Kilgray unlike SDL allows to install different versions) did work any longer.
However, the solution is nearer than you think…

by Pieter Beens

14 March, 2014

Translator Tech Tips

Export Idiom TM with Xbench

In my previous blog post (‘Export Idiom TM’) I wrote about a way to export an Idiom Desktop Workbench TM to a TMX file. Honestly, that process with 7 steps was not very straightforward and perhaps too difficult for some translators. I want to stress that it nevertheless works as a charm, not only for Idiom TMs but for other ‘TMs’ or source/target files as well. I experienced it last week for a text file with 67,500 segments (137,000 rows in Excel!).
However, I was pointed to a much easier process to export Idiom TMs which I want to share with you as well. After reading this blog post you can export Idiom TM within a few minutes.

by Pieter Beens

25 February, 2014

Translator Tech Tips

Export Idiom TM

In my previous blog article I wrote about opening XLZ files in MemoQ. To benefit from MemoQ’s feature to translate XLZ files we need to have a TM too. Creating a TM in MemoQ is not that difficult but using the legacy TM from Idiom Worldserver Desktop Workbench is. MemoQ offers an option to import a translation memory in TMX or CSV format, but Idiom Worldserver Desktop Workbench not even offers an option to export Idiom TM’s.
So, to make use of the TM your client provides or to use the translations you collected in all the years you use Idiom Worldserver Desktop Workbench, you need to have a workaround which allows you to use all translated segments in another CAT tool. You need to export Idiom TM. That’s what I will explain below.

by Pieter Beens

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