Frame's File Comparison Feature

[Steve Johnson]

Can't translation vendors do memory diffs just as easily on Frame
files vs. XML files?

I don't see the advantage there.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried <wreng at tycoint.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary
>> nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a
>> translation memory (and you should request a copy of it,
>> since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this
>> vendor because it's holding your translation memory hostage).
>>
>> When you send an updated set of files for a book that's
>> already been translated once, the unchanged paragraphs will
>> match the translation memory. Only the portions that are new
>> or changed need to be translated.
>>
>> If your vendor isn't using translation memory, find a new
>> one. If it is using translation memory, there's no point in
>> you trying to dissect files and reassemble them -- you'd gain
>> nothing and risk all kinds of problems.
>
> Of course almost all translation agencies use a translation memory
> system nowadays.
>
> If the vendor uses a translation memory system, such a system can
> easily check the number of non-translated segments (a segment is a
> translation unit) and segments which can be pretranslated or
> translated with the help of fuzzy-matches.
> However, the vendor will still charge for pretranslated segments.
> The reason is that often the terminology must be changed with
> new text. Or references to a previous segment will not be correct
> any longer, because e.g. you inserted another segment. The reference
> may still be correct in English but not in a foreign language.
> The costs per pretranslated segment depend on your vendor, mostly
> around 25 % of non-translated segments.
>
> Best regards
>
> Winfried
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Steve Johnson, dr_gonzo at pobox.com