Hello,

I understand your concern about the different number of leading blanks in the source and target JSON files when using Trados Studio 2021 Professional. This can indeed make the comparison of the two files in VS Code unclear.

Here's how you can ensure that the target follows the source formatting and contains the exact number of blanks as the source:

Step 1: Open the target JSON file in a text editor (like Notepad++ or VS Code).

Step 2: Manually adjust the number of leading blanks to match the source file.

Step 3: Save the changes.

Please note that Trados Studio does not automatically preserve the exact formatting of the source file in the target file. This includes the number of leading blanks. Therefore, manual adjustment is necessary.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

It is a very large file and the different number of leading blanks appears in every single line. That would be a very tedios work to manually adjust these in each target file and line.

Also, shouldn't it be possible to preserve the exact formatting of the source file in the target file?

Bernadette Haury 

I was able to reproduce the error. When I hear more I will be sure to let you know
Thank you for bringing this to our attention 

Lyds

Lydia Simplicio 

Many thanks for your feedback. I hope you can do something about it to fix the error.

Waiting to hear from you.

Best regards

Bernadette Haury 

This has been logged as an item for development to fix: CRQ-36306

I trust that in your editor (example notepad++) you could use some good old regex to remove the unwanted whitespaces.

Lyds