OT: Translation cost comparison

[Alison Craig]

Actually, in my case, I was only talking about word cost. This was borne out by the detailed quotes I received. Other fees were accounted for under different line items (any reputable LSP should do it this way so you can see what is involved in a job and what the associated costs are).

I also did a large RFQ about 15 months ago with 11 different ISO qualified, medical device LSPs and even though they were all given *exactly* the same set of directions, the same TM and the same FM-based file set, the word counts were all over the place. Counts for New Words alone ranged from a low of 27,863 to a high of 36,305. That kind of discrepancy adds up quickly. 

FYI: The MS Word equivalent number was 28,239.

Alison


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of beth.tripp at verizon.net
Sent: February 24, 2011 12:52 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Translation cost comparison

It is not the word count but the amount of time to "round trip" the document, engineering costs from Frame to xml and back. The second part of that is the DTP. Frame does a cleaner round-trip than word so less DTP time for cleaning up the formatting.

I hope that helps. We translate into 29 languages where I work and we cut the cost by about 30 to 50% using Frame and that was before we switched to DITA.

Just my .02,

Beth





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