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SDL Plugin Installer error – Where are the buttons?

Anonymous

If you don’t see any buttons in the form when installing a plugin to SDL Trados Studio (as the image above), then the quick fix is to temporarily change your Windows screen resolution settings to 100% DPI for fonts and icons, install the plugin, and then…

over 9 years ago
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How important is it for a translator to be a native-speaker of the target language?

Anonymous

This question, long and often debated in translators’ circles, sparked a thread on Proz this week. As prickly topics like this tend to do, it resulted in a long string of replies, counter-replies, detours, anecdotes, opinions, fallacies, etc. But you…

over 9 years ago
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Preliminary comments related to upcoming Proz Virtual Conference Freelance MT panel

Anonymous

[edit: this article was written prior to participating in a virtual conference, which can be accessed here (scroll down about 2/3 of the page to view the video).] On September 30 I will be participating in a panel discussion as part of an upcoming virtual…

over 10 years ago
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Electronic “services” are not really services; they’re intangible goods

Anonymous

I’ve noticed that the European Union VAT regime will change in January 2015 regarding the place of supply rules for so-called “electronic services”. I’ve also noticed that there has been some confusion on the part of some freelance service providers about…

over 10 years ago
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To U.S. translation agencies: you don’t need a W-8BEN

Anonymous

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on translator discussion boards with questions about the W‑8BEN form, which some U.S. LSPs request from translators based outside the country. There seems to be a lot of confusion for translators filling out this form,…

over 10 years ago
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SDL Innovate SF & Hackathon 2015 – worth the trip

Anonymous

Last month I attended SDL’s “Innovate” event in San Francisco, which was the only SDL Innovate this year to include a pre-conference “Developer Day” and a “Hackathon”. I had been a little hesitant about attending at first, but ultimately made the decision…

over 10 years ago
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Target all versions of Trados Studio with a single plugin project in Visual Studio

Anonymous

On this page: Background Step 1. Create custom build configurations Step 2. Point to different .NET framework versions for the different builds Step 3. Point to the correct references for the respective build configurations Step 4. Modify the…

over 9 years ago
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How to use the ‘maxversion’ attribute for Trados Studio plugins to target specific versions

Anonymous

A nice feature for SDL Trados Studio plugin developers is the new plugin installer utility bundled with Studio 2015. After the utility gets installed on a user’s system, installing plugins to Studio is as easy as double clicking the .sdlplugin file, which…

over 9 years ago
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MT Enhanced Trados Plugin is now open source

Anonymous

As of today, my MT Enhanced Trados Plugin is no longer really “my” plugin. It belongs to everyone now…(sort of). I retain the copyright, but the license is Apache 2.0, so feel free to do whatever you want with it, including commercial uses. The repo is…

over 9 years ago
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