Client requesting translation in bilingual format

Question

I have a client who is requesting the final translation in parallel bilingual format. The export for bilungual review batch command does a pretty decent job of getting what I need, except that in the review document that's created, all the formatting tags are displayed in long form (i.e. ). Is there any way of exporting to bilingual format which applies the tags to Word rather than displays them for editing? Also I'm surprised that Trados doesn't seem to have a feature to generate a finalized document in bilingual format. Surely it can't be that uncommon for clients to request this?

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Paul Golf , 
 
I guess you can't be the only one who gets asked for things like this as I published a new app to the AppStore yesterday that does something similar to what you're after. Take a look at this one and see whether it will deliver what you need? 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../ 
 
It's quite interesting as it will deliver a formatted document with source and target together, either sentence by sentence, or paragraph by paragraph. I apparently works on all formats as long as the sdlxliff file is errorless but I have only tested it with Word and excel. I also didn't try to break it, so the results on fairly straightforward documents were quite good. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

The simple answer is NO. If you think this is what you need, why don't you just use search and replace in Word to get the formatting done for you? 
Of prepare the text upfront, converting text to table, adjusting the width, copying this table and adding it as a second column, then hiding the first column, translating this and unhiding the hidden column in the final file. 
 
@Evzen: well, I would have expected you having seen such requests nearly on daily basis. In fact it is nothing strange when translating contracts, agreements or similar. And I would always prefer using Word than Excel for this.

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