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Across mess (refused to continue a job)
Автор темы: Sander Van de Moortel
Sander Van de Moortel
Sander Van de Moortel  Identity Verified
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английский => голландский
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Jul 30, 2014

Hi

For a normally well reputed agency, I was given a 3000 EUR translation job. However, when I opened the document, it was full of markup tags. 90000 words of digging for translatable text through markup tags, especially in Across, was something I didn't want to do so I bailed for the first time out of a translation job.

A picture of the kind of thing in my file:
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Hi

For a normally well reputed agency, I was given a 3000 EUR translation job. However, when I opened the document, it was full of markup tags. 90000 words of digging for translatable text through markup tags, especially in Across, was something I didn't want to do so I bailed for the first time out of a translation job.

A picture of the kind of thing in my file:

https://plus.google.com/111939002423369086103/posts/WJb43Czjb5R

What do you think? Did they mess up? I opened the same PDF in Trados Studio 2014 and none of this nonsense was still visible. ▲ Collapse
 
Andrej Fric
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Local time: 07:32
Член ProZ.com c 2011
немецкий => словенский
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Re-importing? Jul 30, 2014

Hi Sander.

Couldn't you just ask the agency to re-import the text without this mess of tags? It should be possible, imho.
 
Sander Van de Moortel
Sander Van de Moortel  Identity Verified
Китай
английский => голландский
+ ...
Автор темы
yes Jul 30, 2014

Yes I have asked and I think they're considering it. Because knowing how terribly inflexible Across is, this will lead to instant RSI (ctrl-alt-z to confirm and move to next untouched, who came up with this?)
 


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