I am sure that everybody knows this problem: you get a Word or Pdf original and the arrangement or layout of the text is messed up because your target sentences are longer than the text blocks or columns provided by the original document, so line breaks are inserted. Page headings are also misplaced some times.
Is there an App or trick or anything that can be done to solve this problem?
Cheers,
Miguel
Thanks for your replies. That's unfortunate. My client decided that they will be taking care of that problem. I proposed that we could do it for a very reasonable amount but they didn't accept, which frees me from that ordeal, but I wish I could help them out.
Unfortunately there is no magic on reformatting translated documents. This can be a quite demanding work, for which you need to know a lot about how formatting work. That's fairly more than just changing font sizes...
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I really wish someone made an app for this.
There are many: InDesign, Word, Powerpoint and so on. As any other app, they need to be used by a human being. Depends on how do you use these, you can have a lot or far less work with formatting. But formatting is a creative job, like painting or so - how should that be automated?
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Well, the idea is to match the original format in the target file, I don't see much creativity there, just a downside of using digital documents. Creating the format yourself, that's a different thing.
Of course creating a new layout is much more demanding, but applying the correct formatting to an existing document without destroying the original style is quite demanding, too. As I said, it is not only changing font sizes...
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And being annoyed by glitches, impossible to fix graphics, adding text boxes... That work is also cheaper than translation, which I also liked quite automated...
Yep. This is why it can be really demanding. However, if the document has been created with the possibility of creating versions of it in other languages, the reformatting task should just be recreating the TOC and the index plus maybe some polishing here and there. Not automated, though, as the automated process does not "see" the results. And a human eye does see layout problems quite fast.
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Yep. This is why it can be really demanding. However, if the document has been created with the possibility of creating versions of it in other languages, the reformatting task should just be recreating the TOC and the index plus maybe some polishing here and there. Not automated, though, as the automated process does not "see" the results. And a human eye does see layout problems quite fast.
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