Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: Unclean Trados file without tags
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Emily, they misunderstood what you meant
[quote]Emily Scott wrote:
A PM asked me to provide clean and unclean files on delivery (their company uses Trados). Before accepting the job, I asked whether an SDLXLIFF file and a Trados DOC/RTF file were what they needed and they said yes. [/quote]
It may be that the source format for their file was either DOC or RTF, but I'm guessing that that is not what you meant when you said "DOC/RTF". You meant the file that MemoQ calls a "Trados DOC/RTF" file, which (although you may not know this) is an uncleaned RTF file, i.e. a file that can be opened in Word which contains both source and target text with little bits of code in-between. This was the main file format of Trados 2006, but is still used by or supported by some other CAT tools (e.g. Wordfast Classic).
I think the client meant that they want to receive an SDLXLIFF file plus the final file in its final format. From their perspective, the SDLXLIFF file is the "unclean" file, and the final file in its final format is the "clean" file. And as far as I know, MemoQ can't generate a final file from an SDLXLIFF file.
[quote]Could someone tell me how to export an unclean file for Trados? When I exported, I chose "Export bilingual" and selected "Trados DOC/RTF" and did not alter the boxes below that were already checked. [/quote]
Yes, you were simply converting the MemoQ project into a particular file format which MemoQ calls "Trados DOC/RTF" and which is called by many other names, including "uncleaned RTF". The file exported by MemoQ is not a fully featured "uncleaned RTF" file because it does not retain layout and formatting, and thus you can't generate a final file in its final format using just the "Trados DOC/RTF" file that MemoQ exports. (Strictly speaking MemoQ should call it "Trados DOC/RTF-similar".) Either way, I don't think this is the file format that your client was hoping to get.
If you client doesn't use MemoQ, then there is no way that they could have known that when MemoQ says "Trados DOC/RTF", it means a feature-reduced variant of a Trados 2006 (!) file.
Topic: Unclean Trados file without tags
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Emily, they misunderstood what you meant
[quote]Emily Scott wrote:
A PM asked me to provide clean and unclean files on delivery (their company uses Trados). Before accepting the job, I asked whether an SDLXLIFF file and a Trados DOC/RTF file were what they needed and they said yes. [/quote]
It may be that the source format for their file was either DOC or RTF, but I'm guessing that that is not what you meant when you said "DOC/RTF". You meant the file that MemoQ calls a "Trados DOC/RTF" file, which (although you may not know this) is an uncleaned RTF file, i.e. a file that can be opened in Word which contains both source and target text with little bits of code in-between. This was the main file format of Trados 2006, but is still used by or supported by some other CAT tools (e.g. Wordfast Classic).
I think the client meant that they want to receive an SDLXLIFF file plus the final file in its final format. From their perspective, the SDLXLIFF file is the "unclean" file, and the final file in its final format is the "clean" file. And as far as I know, MemoQ can't generate a final file from an SDLXLIFF file.
[quote]Could someone tell me how to export an unclean file for Trados? When I exported, I chose "Export bilingual" and selected "Trados DOC/RTF" and did not alter the boxes below that were already checked. [/quote]
Yes, you were simply converting the MemoQ project into a particular file format which MemoQ calls "Trados DOC/RTF" and which is called by many other names, including "uncleaned RTF". The file exported by MemoQ is not a fully featured "uncleaned RTF" file because it does not retain layout and formatting, and thus you can't generate a final file in its final format using just the "Trados DOC/RTF" file that MemoQ exports. (Strictly speaking MemoQ should call it "Trados DOC/RTF-similar".) Either way, I don't think this is the file format that your client was hoping to get.
If you client doesn't use MemoQ, then there is no way that they could have known that when MemoQ says "Trados DOC/RTF", it means a feature-reduced variant of a Trados 2006 (!) file.