Trados is adding extra line breaks and breaking the formatting of my source file. First screenshot is of the original file oppened in word and the second one is of the same file after passing through Studio. How do I solve this?
From what I see the source was a PDF. So the problem seems to be the PDF conversion and not Studio. To avoid such problems, ask for the proper source file or convert the PDF in a better way. The problem with PDF is always the same, a conversion done automatically will never fulfil the real need. It is always better to get the proper source or to convert PDF manually.
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Thank you for your answer, but the source file is actually an MS Word document (.docx), not a PDF.
Can you tell me how do you see extra paragraph breaks in your document? In your screenshot I do not see any paragraph breaks, as non-printable characters are not shown.
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For example, in screenshot 2, compared to screenshot 1, there are 2 extra blank lines between "CONTROLES" and "VOICE", 2 extra blank lines between "VOICE" and the paragraph below it ("Aumenta a resposta de harmônicos..."), 2 extra blank lines between "GAIN" and the paragraph below it ("Aumenta a saturação global no sentido horário..."), etc.
Please visualize the non-printable characters. Only then you really can count paragraph breaks. There can be different characters there, causing the layout to change. Your target text is not exactly as long as the source and this causes changes.
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Perhaps it would be helpful to see the sdlxliff you have translated. Can you share that? If not and you can only share screenshots please show a screenshot of the Editor View with non-printable chars showing, and also using the All Content filter instead of the All Segments.
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I've taken a closer look on your second screenshot. It seems the spacing of your line formatting has changed. Might be the standard format style has been overridden in the source file and restored in the target file. Anyway, without seeing the non-printable characters no one can tell what happened there. Please also make the column and page breaks and also text frames visible.
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I've attached the original source word file, the Trados source preview word file and the sdlxliff file.
trados sdlxliff.zip
Thank you for sending the files though. I have to say I think this is a bug. The original file looks like this:
In Studio it looks like this (showing All Content):
Then just copying source to target and saving I get this in the target file:
For some reason Trados Studio is adding a soft and a hard return after the text and hard breaks, but only inside some of these text boxes. I'm not sure why.
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Even stranger is that if I then translate the target file that has these additional breaks the target created from that is perfect... still includes the additional breaks but it doesn't duplicate them.
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Even stranger is that if I then translate the target file that has these additional breaks the target created from that is perfect... still includes the additional breaks but it doesn't duplicate them.
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