language specific screen shots in Framemaker

[mathieu jacquet]

Hi Verner,

what do you really mean by "screen shots are sent to the translator"?

As a (English into French) translator, I have never had to translate any screen shot strictly speaking. I usually translate software strings that developers then integrate into the (in my case, French version of) the soft. Then I capture screenshots in the right language to place them in my doc.

In your case it would be too time-consuming of course, you would not want to capture 1000 screenshots x 6 languages...

However, if the translators translate straight into Photoshop or Illustrator, maybe they do not set the image settings as you do (in terms of dpi, size, format, etc.), which may cause problems. 

Mathieu.


> Subject: language specific screen shots in Framemaker
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:13:33 +0200
> From: verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Have any of you succeded in creating a scenario where language specific
> screen shots do not need to be reimported or rescaled in Framemaker.
> 
> I am thinking of directory structure for each language, screen
> resolutions, dpi etc.
> 
> The idea is that the English files and screen shots are sent to the
> translator. The translator replaces the English screen shots with the
> language-specific ones.
> 
> If you have a scenario for this I am very interested. Often when I
> replace a screen shot it is totally distorted in Framemaker and needs to
> be re-imported and re-scaled.
>  
> Med venlig hilsen - Best regards
> Verner Andersen
> Technical Writer
> 
> Radiometer Medical ApS
> Phone +45 3827 3612
> Fax +45 3827 2727
> verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
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