In Progress

This is in progress for next service release of Trados Studio 2024 to be released later this year, exact timing to be announced.

Font size for comments

Some of us have trouble to see very small font sizes, like comments. There should be a way to make it bigger.

Generally speaking, anything that could be done to make Trados visually comfortable would be nice.

Please note I use Trados 2021 and I have no intention of upgrading. I already did and had to roll back because of issues in the interaction between Trados and Multiterm. I would love a solution for comments that could be applied to all Trados versions.

Jose Ignacio Cepero Briz
  • in reply to Jerzy Czopik

     

    I don't dispute anything you said... but what makes you so sure this will be like this forever?  The point, which you completely ignored, is that times are changing.  I didn't say that the desktop will go away... but I do believe there will come a time when the way we like to do things today won't be the way we do them tomorrow... they may not even be the way we CAN do them tomorrow.

  • in reply to Paul

    This is what I thought, and it is very likely that my client will not like their files being uploaded to external servers, so this is a strong argument in favour of desktop.

  • in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    You summarize well my overall feeling. 

  • in reply to Paul

     

    Online does not work in a plane, it does not even work on a train. Online is limited to a browser editor, which is still far beyond the editor in Studio. Which is still not as good as Word for example. But fits a different purpose. MT is a tool and far from what has been "promised" or is being advertised. The "most precise translator in the world" delivers translations ruining the whole document with one sentence. I am all for using tools in their given variety, but I'd like to have the potential of my machine. Also I admire to have my files stored locally on a NAS and backuped on 3 more NAS stations. And I cannot lose the feeling, that all this AI is patronizing me. I am able to perform my tasks in my way and on my own. Due to the ISO 17100 I must have a documented process on doing translations. Using cloud solutions might also be a breach of my customer agreements.

    So I really rely on the desktop tools and do not understand myself as a dinosaur. There are viable reasons to keep the desktop solutions.

  • in reply to Philippe Riondel

      

    "But, what about it in the real world?"

    Yes... the elephant in the room.  I can recall translators, in the not so distant past, saying how they would never use MT for all sorts of reasons... quality, need to be online, security etc.  Today if a service is down, or we don't have support for the AI solution of their choice, you'd think the world had caved in!  So yes, not being able to get online is a potential problem.  But also how things have changed as technology improves and translators see some benefit for themselves as well.

    I think as the whole world goes online it's already become something we don't even think about until we lose it... and then there's hell to pay.  But with all the new services appearing as online only options, and as we start to take this for granted, I think it won't be long before we all feel the same way about translating and whether we are online or not won't even be a question... it'll be a given, and that's the real world.