Hi Giorgio,

It is actually by design that you cannot create 2009 packages in SDL Trados Studio 2011 via the API.  You will need to open the package in SDL Trados Studio 2011 manually and then downsave from there.

Regards, Ian

Ian Davies  |  Senior Product Manager | SDL | Language Technologies Division |                          +44 7826843819

Thank you very much for your quick reply!

Regards,

Giorgio

This is actually just a something we hit too this week. Any plans to change that? Most of our freelancers don't have 2012 yet.

Hello

I'm wondering if something has changed since August 2012 in this subject?

From the answer I got on another occasion this is not gonna change anymore. You have to upgrade to 2012.

i have decided to go back to this thread and paste my solution. Packages in 2011 and 2009 are very similar.

Solution below will unpack trados 2011 package, changes some values that trados 2009 will be able to read this package and zip files back.

Package will not have QA or Term verification settings converted, but this can be done in a vey easy way as well.

Code:

      public static void Trados2011PackageConvert(string packagefile)

       {

           string f_type_folder = @"C:\Project 1\pkg\File Types";

           string target_zip = packagefile.Replace(Path.GetFileName(packagefile), "Trados2009_"+Path.GetFileName(packagefile));

           string folder = packagefile.Replace(Path.GetFileName(packagefile),

               Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(packagefile));

           if (Directory.Exists(folder)) Directory.Delete(folder);

           Directory.CreateDirectory(folder);

           Process prc_unzip = new Process();

           prc_unzip.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Zipper\Trados2011_Zipper.exe";

           prc_unzip.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("unzip \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", packagefile, folder);

           prc_unzip.Start();

           prc_unzip.WaitForExit();

           string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.sdlproj", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

           Trace.WriteLine(files.Count());

           Trace.WriteLine(files[0]);

           XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

           doc.Load(files[0]);

           doc.XmlResolver = null;

           XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//PackageProject");

           node.Attributes["Version"].Value = "3.1.0.0";

           doc.Save(files[0]);

           string file_type_folder = Path.Combine(folder, "File Types");

           Directory.CreateDirectory(file_type_folder);

           string[] f_to_copy = Directory.GetFiles(f_type_folder);

           foreach (string f in f_to_copy)

           {

               string f_target = Path.Combine(file_type_folder, Path.GetFileName(f));

               File.Copy(f, f_target);

           }

           string err = "";

       Process prc_zip = new Process();

       prc_zip.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Zipper\Trados2011_Zipper.exe";

           prc_zip.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("zip \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", folder, target_zip);

           prc_zip.Start();

           prc_zip.WaitForExit();

           Directory.Delete(folder,true);

       }

i had to use Trados2011_Zipper.exe as my application works inside Trados Studio folder and has sharpziplib version conflict with sharpziplib library used by sdl.

Most important part is bolded.

Note : this will work correctly only if you dont use options specific to trados 2011.

i have decided to go back to this thread and paste my solution. Packages in 2011 and 2009 are very similar.

Solution below will unpack trados 2011 package, changes some values that trados 2009 will be able to read this package and zip files back.

Package will not have QA or Term verification settings converted, but this can be done in a vey easy way as well.

Code:

      public static void Trados2011PackageConvert(string packagefile)

       {

           string f_type_folder = @"C:\Project 1\pkg\File Types";

           string target_zip = packagefile.Replace(Path.GetFileName(packagefile), "Trados2009_"+Path.GetFileName(packagefile));

           string folder = packagefile.Replace(Path.GetFileName(packagefile),

               Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(packagefile));

           if (Directory.Exists(folder)) Directory.Delete(folder);

           Directory.CreateDirectory(folder);

           Process prc_unzip = new Process();

           prc_unzip.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Zipper\Trados2011_Zipper.exe";

           prc_unzip.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("unzip \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", packagefile, folder);

           prc_unzip.Start();

           prc_unzip.WaitForExit();

           string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.sdlproj", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

           Trace.WriteLine(files.Count());

           Trace.WriteLine(files[0]);

           XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

           doc.Load(files[0]);

           doc.XmlResolver = null;

           XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//PackageProject");

           node.Attributes["Version"].Value = "3.1.0.0";

           doc.Save(files[0]);

           string file_type_folder = Path.Combine(folder, "File Types");

           Directory.CreateDirectory(file_type_folder);

           string[] f_to_copy = Directory.GetFiles(f_type_folder);

           foreach (string f in f_to_copy)

           {

               string f_target = Path.Combine(file_type_folder, Path.GetFileName(f));

               File.Copy(f, f_target);

           }

           string err = "";

       Process prc_zip = new Process();

       prc_zip.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Zipper\Trados2011_Zipper.exe";

           prc_zip.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("zip \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", folder, target_zip);

           prc_zip.Start();

           prc_zip.WaitForExit();

           Directory.Delete(folder,true);

       }

i had to use Trados2011_Zipper.exe as my application works inside Trados Studio folder and has sharpziplib version conflict with sharpziplib library used by sdl.

Most important part is bolded.

Note : this will work correctly only if you dont use options specific to trados 2011.