Greetings: I'm not a production company, just an individual who came across a problem similar to this on my own. I'm not even sure if my suggestion is more work intensive than what you are doing now.
However, would you consider the following: 1. Use a scanner (HP makes good scanners) which will produce a scan of the entire document as .jpg. 2. From that .jpg file select those elements from within Open Office or Star Office (whichever pleases you) -- using the Insert picture command - into the document in Italian where you wish that graphic element to appear. Question: My scanner had Abbyy Fine Reader embedded into it as part of it's software, so I'm familiar with it. Neat program. Did anyone consider that Open Office can read .doc as input, then use the Edit this file icon to modify it into an Italian document (or whatever you are attempting) as necessary then use the Save As command to save that same document as .sxw or choose the modified or final version of the Italian document so that it produces an output as .pdf from within OO or StarOffice? Just a thought... Best wishes.... On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:57 +0100, Apel Mar Technology Srl wrote: > Dear Sirs, > We are getting in touch with you because we need to translate in > Italian some PDF pamphlets with a complex layout. To perform the > translations in our company we use a translation memory called Omega T > (www.omegat.org) that can handle natively Open Office documents. > As known, PDF files aren't easy to handle so we tested and then > purchased Abbyy Fine Reader 8 that has the ability to read PDF files > (even containing complex page layouts, tables, etc.) and send the > recognised text to various programs. As an example, Abbyy Fine Reader > can save recognised documents in Word format but unfortunately it does > not foresee any direct output to Open Office / Star Office. > We tried to open in > - Open Office 1.1.5 > - Star Office 7 > - Open Office 2.01 > the Word file(s) generated by Abbyy Fine Reader but the layout looks > very different from the original one. > Can you kindly have a look on the attached files and tell us if you > think you will ever be able to enlarge the compatibility to these > peculiar Word files or do you have any specific suggestions to help > us? > We enclose to this e-mail some files in different formats - from the > original to the resulting file -, for you to better understand our > problem. We send you: > - the PDF file cvg200-e.pdf (original) > - the Batch file BATCH_CVG_200 (we created from the PDF file) > - the resulting Word file cvg_200.doc > - the Open Office file cvg200.sxw > > Waiting for your kind comment on the matter. > Many thanks. > Best regards. > > Francesco Querini > c/o Apel Mar Technology S.r.l. > Via Lungobisagno Istria 23a/R > 16141 GENOVA-ITALY > Tel. 010 870058 > Fax 010 870248 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
