Hi Horst-Helge,

I recently translated a PDF I had converted to Word that had quite a few layout issues, though not as complex as yours.

I remember now, I saved the SDLXLIFF to Source via Advanced Save before translating it, then worked on that Word file to smooth out anything I could not easily deal with in the SDLXLIFF. The resulting Word file looked better and I added that to a new project which was much easier to translate and saved to Target without a problem...

It wasn't 130 pages long, though! However, IF you can save to Source and open that, then maybe it will create a Target Word file that you can open??

Maybe...
Ali :)

Hi again Horst-Helge,

Ah, so you had already done what I suggested in my most recent post.

Did you try saving that source Word file to a lower version of Word then retranslating that?? Is your version of Word older than the most recent that is used by Studio (as Paul asked)?

Did you try copying the content of the source Word file you prepared then pasting it into a new Word document and removing the potentially troublesome content, then adding that content to the final target Word document after translation?? Tables, headers, footers, metadata, etc...?

I'm sure you've already thought of all this...

This must be so frustrating for you!

All the best

Ali

Hi again Horst-Helge,

Ah, so you had already done what I suggested in my most recent post.

Did you try saving that source Word file to a lower version of Word then retranslating that?? Is your version of Word older than the most recent that is used by Studio (as Paul asked)?

Did you try copying the content of the source Word file you prepared then pasting it into a new Word document and removing the potentially troublesome content, then adding that content to the final target Word document after translation?? Tables, headers, footers, metadata, etc...?

I'm sure you've already thought of all this...

This must be so frustrating for you!

All the best

Ali