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Today's Topics:
1. Re: OT: Translation cost comparison (beth.tripp at verizon.net)
2. RE: OT: Translation cost comparison (Alison Craig)
3. RE: Translation cost comparison (Bill Nilson)
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: February 24, 2011 12:52 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Translation cost comparison
It is not the word count but the amount of time to "round trip" the document,
engineering costs from Frame to xml and back. The second part of that is the
DTP. Frame does a cleaner
I apologize for going off topic but can anyone point to figures that compares
translation costs for Framemaker documents compared to MSWord documents.
Someone told me Frame was generally cheaper, but they could not supply a source
for the data.
Thanks,
Roy
it, I recommend a
colleague who knows how to!
Cheers,
Mathieu (Toulouse, France).
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:15:56 -0800
From: roy_g_le...@yahoo.com
Subject: OT: Translation cost comparison
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
I apologize for going off topic but can anyone point to figures
I apologize for going off topic but can anyone point to figures that compares
translation costs for Framemaker documents compared to MSWord documents.
Someone told me Frame was generally cheaper, but they could not supply a source
for the data.
Thanks,
Roy
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rate. And if I do not know how to handle it, I recommend a
colleague who knows how to!
Cheers,
Mathieu (Toulouse, France).
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:15:56 -0800
From: roy_g_le...@yahoo.com
Subject: OT: Translation cost comparison
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
I apologize for going off topic b
Quite a few factors go into a full soup to nuts translation of a document.
Software used is rarely one of them, as that can be obtained or worked
around as necessary. One of the big gotchas is cleanliness of source
language files. My guess is that your anecdotal reference pertains to usual
use of
It is not the word count but the amount of time to "round trip" the document,
engineering costs from Frame to xml and back. The second part of that is the
DTP. Frame does a cleaner round-trip than word so less DTP time for cleaning up
the formatting.
I hope that helps. We translate into 29
