Document Localization Process?

[Bill Swallow]

> Mercury wants to reach the point where it can ship localized versions of its
> products at the same time as the English Versions.
> Our Localization Manager says that his team cannot efficiently track changes to
> our FrameMaker files. This results in delays and makes it difficult to keep
> translation costs at a reasonable level.

If they have live access to files (using version control?) and they
use translation memory in-house (which you really should be doing),
there's no reason why they can't track changes, stay current, and
translate in parallel with authoring.

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