Translating FM files into Japonese

[John Sgammato]

Hi Stephen,
I am just now having a 200pp largely table-based book translated into
Japanese by GlobalVis: http://www.globalvis.com/.
They are working directly from my unstructured FM11 files with no trouble
and the output is making our Japanese sales engineer very happy. They
handle all the translation memory work themselves; I did not need to get
involved in that at all.
In fact, the translation project carried on without a hitch while I took a
2-week vacation.

john - warm and wet by Cape Cod at 70 Fahrenheit.


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Stephen O'Brien
<sobrien at innovmetric.com>wrote:

>  Hi,****
>
> ** **
>
> We have located a translator in Japan to translate a 300-page training
> booklet written in English. The document is very largely table based with
> typically an image in row 1 and the caption underneath in row 2 with
> straddled narrow columns containing arrows to show a sequence of actions.
> ****
>
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> The translator is charging reasonable translation costs and then there is
> an additional 12$/page cost because the files are from FrameMaker. When we
> questioned that cost, he asked if we could provide files in Trados format.
> Maybe he is not familiar with FrameMaker files.****
>
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>
> Anyway, I find this strange as in the past I have always provided FM files
> and the company doing the translation took care of everything else on their
> side. I received my Fm files translated into the target language from which
> I made PDFs.****
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> Can anyone familiar with translating FM files explain why the individual
> is requesting files in Trados format? Can that be done – just pay a company
> to generate Trados files from FM files?****
>
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> Many thanks (cold and wet here in Quebec City at 10 Celcius),****
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