How to translate a website using Trados Studio 2019-2022

Dear Community,

I would need to know how to translate a single page of a website and also if Trados Studio can manage the translation of a complete website (from A to Z).

Normally, I would ask the client to provide me an excel file with all the text to translate, in order to come up quickly with a quote and translate.

Now, in this case it looks like the client won’t be able to provide such excel file. I really need to come up with a “Plan B” to provide a quote, and finger crossed, then start the translation.

My basic understanding is that I would need to save the various website pages from Chrome (or Microsoft Edge) in a HTML format, import these pages in Trados Studio, figure out how many words there are in order to provide a quote, then create a dedicated project, translate and send the output files to the client. Or, politely ask the client the provide the HTML pages they need to translate.

Could you please “guide” me step by step? I am not super “tech savvy”

I am using Trados Studio 2019 R2, will switch soon to 2022.

Many thanks!

Marco

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  • Hi Paul, 

    Thank you, please find attached the zip files, so you may have a better overview of the missing graphs, images, icons in the output file generated from Trados

    Marco

     Zip files.rar

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    Thanks for the files.  The problem you are having is that the missing images are referenced in the target html file with a relative path, like this for example:

    <img src="./US Export Control – Impact & Opportunity for China’s Semiconductor Industry - KraneShares Europe_files/kraneshares_ucits_logo.svg" alt="CONTRIBUISCANO bambini">

    So this logo:

    kraneshares_ucits_logo.svg

    Is being referenced in this folder:

    ./US Export Control – Impact &amp; Opportunity for China’s Semiconductor Industry - KraneShares Europe_files

    But it can't find that folder because you haven't put it there.

    So if you copy the folder containing all the images so it sits next to the target html then open the html and you'll find all the images are there.  Nothing wrong with the application or what you've done, just an understanding of how webpages work.  I'm sure your customer will know exactly what to do with this.

    Incidentally, if you Finalize the project instead of Export files then your target folder in your Project (it'll be the target language folder) will contain all the files including the image folder.  I probably should have explained that to you given you're new to all this.  I didn't because using Finalize also shuts the project down and you have to "Revert to SDLXLIFF" if you want to open it again.  You will be prompted but it's a pain when you have many files, so I always "Export" to avoid this.  It will also include the SDLXLIFF files so you'd have to remove them before sending thes file to your customer... so another good reason to "Export".

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  • Dear Paul, 

    Thank you for your feedback.

    As you suggested, I copy-paste the folder with containing all the images just next to the output HTML file generated from Trados Studio and now the graphs, icons, all images are correctly displayed.

    I guess I have a final question though: If I send the output HTML file generated from Trados to the client, I should send the folder containing all the images too, otherwise the client will face the same issue I encountered (a webpage without icons, graphs..)?

    Again, many thanks for your precious help!

    Marco

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    If I send the output HTML file generated from Trados to the client, I should send the folder containing all the images too, otherwise the client will face the same issue I encountered (a webpage without icons, graphs..)?

    Well, considering they own the website, and considering they probably know how their platform works, I would really stress that you speak to your customer and find out what they want.  Unless it's the most basic of homemade websites I've seen in a long time I truly doubt they'll be managing a site on the basis of what you showed me alone.  They'll also have the images already won't they?

    Engage with your customer!

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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