SDL Trados Studio and memoQ: side by side

Posted on 8 August 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

memoQ_studio iconsThis year, I’ve revisited memoQ. I sounded it out four years ago (memoQ 4.5) but missed so many Studio features that I didn’t persevere. Fast forward to 2014. I’ve worked with memoQ quite intensively for six months now, first because an agency has been sending me on-line projects and later because I was really rather enjoying it. My impression? memoQ is now a mature product. Read more…

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MedTranslate Conference October 2014

Posted on 21 July 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

Freiburg, MartinstorMedTranslate, an international conference for medical & pharma translation professionals, will be held on 4-5 October 2014 in Freiburg, Germany. It’s being organised by The Alexandria Project and GxP Language Services. Here’s a selection of the presentations, workshops and other reasons why I’m going to the conference. Read more…

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Translating medical case reports into English: terms, templates and tenses

Posted on 15 July 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

case reportA case report is a narrative that describes, for medical, scientific, or educational purposes, a medical problem experienced by one or more patients.1 Translating a case report sounds straightforward. But is it? This blog post stems from a recent project in which I reviewed several case reports translated from Spanish to English. Read more…

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Looking for pirated Trados?

Posted on 23 June 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

Pirated softwareI was at a translation event recently and met a translator who ran an agency. We had a brief chat about language pairs and rates, and then to my surprise, the translator said he’d just got hold of a new OCR tool and offered to send me a copy. Gathering momentum, he proudly announced that all his software was pirated: Windows, Office, Trados and all.  After all, he said, why should he spend money on software if he could get it free? Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2014: shortcuts and the ribbon

Posted on 27 May 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

SDL Trados Studio 2014: the ribbonI’m posting this article for two reasons. First, I wanted to update the post I wrote last September on shortcuts, because Studio 2014 has been released since then. Second, I wrote a brief summary about the Ribbon for beginners and I wanted to expand on it from an advanced user’s point of view. Read more…

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New features in Studio 2014 SP1: the good and the bad

Posted on 30 April 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

SDL Trados Studio SP1: new alignment editorSDL Trados Studio 2014 SP1 has been released this week. The biggest change is an alignment editor to enhance the automatic alignment tool that replaced WinAlign in Studio 2014. This blog post will be an honest report (as always!) of the main new features in the SP1 release: Read more…

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Alergología e inmunología: a new Cosnautas resource

Posted on 10 April 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

icon_alergiasA new resource was added to Cosnautas in March: Diccionario inglés-español de alergología e inmunología clínica, by Juan Manuel Igea Aznar. I’ve been browsing through the dictionary to see how it might help me the next time the subject crops up in a translation.
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How to batch convert .doc files to .docx

Posted on 28 March 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

Batch convert doc to docxThere are a couple of good reasons for converting .doc files to .docx before translating them in Trados Studio. I’ll explain why later. If you’ve got just one file to convert, it’s simple to open it in Word and save it as .docx. But how can you batch convert a group of files all at the same time? Read more…

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The Hunterian Museum

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

Crystal_GalleryLast November, the ITI Medical & Pharmaceutical Network held a workshop on personalised medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. This is a late follow-up report on the group visit the next day to the Hunterian Museum, which is housed on the same site. Read more…

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A dozen must-have programs for translators: how to move them to a new computer

Posted on 25 February 2014 by Emma Goldsmith

My 3-year old laptop has been getting very slow and unstable in the last few months and so I decided it was time for a new work machine. This is an account of the most important programs I transferred. Most were easy to reinstall. A few needed some tweaking. Read more…

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