Dear all,

Glad I saw this post  and updated Trados finally as we are using Corel Draw for the pictures and it would be great to save all the workarounds by exporting to psd. However, I just tried with one of the graphics but all I get is an empty document in Trados.

Does anyove have any idea about settings that need to be made for the png or similar while exporting from Corel? Did you manage, ?

The xliff that Trados creates is empty apart from the general tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xliff xmlns:sdl="">sdl.com/.../1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2" version="1.2" sdl:version="1.0"><file original="XXX.psd" datatype="x-sdlfilterframework2" source-language="en-US" target-language="de-DE"><header><reference><external-file href="file://FootSwitch_Requirements_001.psd" uid="Photoshop.DependencyFileId"/></reference>.....

I have er-imported the psd in Corel Draw and all is displayed but as plain picture...

Any ideas welcome :-)

yve

Yvonne Rezbach

I guess the obvious thing to check is whether the PSD contains any actual text?

Yes, obvious thing :-) As I created the Corel file myself, I know that there is text boxes with texts in them. I don't know how to check whether the psd file still has the text as such or changed it to a pic, haven't found a  tool to display the content with having Photoshop installed.

Yvonne Rezbach

If you can share the converted file (*.psd) I'd be happy to look at this for you?  You ca send it to pfilkin@sdl.com.

Paul I've just come across this thread while faced with a similar issue.

A customer has written a sport coaching book in CorelDraw. This will be the fourth one we've translated for him, but in the past we've always created PDFs from the CorelDraw files, copied and pasted the text into MS Word, cleaned up the text in Word (getting rid of awkward line breaks, etc.), translated it then copied and pasted it all manually back into the CorelDraw files.

I've just tried exporting one of the CorelDraw files (directly from CorelDraw) as a .psd file and it is completely devoid of text, according to Trados. In your experience, is it worth persevering with this, or is CorelDraw just a non-starter? Annoyingly, the PDF files that CorelDraw creates insert a hard return at the end of each line, breaking up every single sentence so we can't even process the PDFs directly in Trados Studio (not sensibly, anyway).

Andrew James Wood

Andrew James Wood said:

In your experience, is it worth persevering with this, or is CorelDraw just a non-starter?

I actually have no experience of working with Coreldraw files at all.

Andrew James Wood said:

Annoyingly, the PDF files that CorelDraw creates insert a hard return at the end of each line, breaking up every single sentence so we can't even process the PDFs directly in Trados Studio (not sensibly, anyway).

It's never a good idea to handle PDF files in Trados Studio directly anyway.  I think it always makes sense to convert the PDF to Word first (which you could use Trados for if you don't have anything better), tidy up the Word file, remove breaks etc. and then translate the Word file.

Test the SysFilter for CDR. Working directly with proper format is always a plus. And in my experience the filter did its job properly: polmannshop.com/.../24-sysfilter-for-coreldraw-12-x7.html

Thanks Jerzy Czopik! I wish they did a trial version - I'm guessing there aren't many 200-page books written in Corel Draw. I'll definitely bear that in mind though.

 Hi Paul, sorry, I thought you might have found a solution for Yvonne in the end. 

Andrew James Wood If the book has 200 pages, the price of the filter will pay for itself. A book with 200 pages will have 10,000+ words and these will pay the 239 EUR for the filter. I would ask there for a test and buy, if a pseudo-translation test works.

Jerzy Czopik, that's true - no harm in asking for a test! Cheers!

Jerzy Czopik, that's true - no harm in asking for a test! Cheers!