Keyboard Corner: Logitech Illuminated Keyboard K740

Posted on 13 February 2017 by Emma Goldsmith

logitech_illuminated_k740Today’s keyboard review is by Frédéric Condette. Frédéric is an English and German to French translator cum project manager, QA and DTP expert. Here he reports on his favourite keyboard, the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard K740. Might it be the perfect keyboard for you too? Read more…

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How to translate a PDF in SDL Trados Studio

Posted on 18 January 2017 by Emma Goldsmith

translators-talk-tradosAs translators, we all prefer a source text in a neatly formatted Word document, but in practice, we have to work with all sorts of file formats. Fortunately, SDL Trados Studio can handle most of them. One of the file types that has undergone the greatest improvement in recent versions of Studio is the PDF file type. Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: A look at layouts

Posted on 20 December 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

customise_view_1A few years ago, I wrote about the Intricacies of Display in SDL Trados Studio, explaining how to move windows around and customise the layout in the editor view. Making Studio fit comfortably on your monitor is even more important now, because Studio 2017 comes with two new windows: Fragment Matches and the Advanced Filter Display.  Read more…

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Abbreviations: how confident are you?

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

ciAbbreviations are rife in medical texts. Some, such as DNA, are universally known and more common than their expanded forms. Others, such as CI (confidence interval) fall into a grey area. Widespread use of such abbreviations in English means they have been adopted in other languages too, particularly in the medical field. Out-of-English translators are then faced with a dilemma: should they translate commonly-understood English abbreviations or follow the practice of medical writers in their language and keep them in English? Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: more new features

Posted on 24 November 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

i-work-withI’ve written about Fragment recall and repair and the Advanced display filter in previous blog posts. What else is new in SDL Trados Studio 2017? Drag and drop, segment merging and AdaptiveMT, to name but a few. Here’s a review of these features and some other smaller changes that are also worth a mention. Read more…

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: Advanced Display Filter

Posted on 21 November 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

advanced-display-filter

SDL Trados Studio 2017 comes with an Advanced Display Filter out of the box. This post looks at the new feature in detail and compares it with filtering options from previous versions.

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SDL Trados Studio 2017: fragment recall and repair

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

uplifting-studioI’ve been beta testing the latest version of SDL Trados Studio since the summer. Four months and nine builds later, Studio 2017 has been officially unveiled and is being rolled out to the thousands of users who pre-ordered the upgrade, have a support agreement in place or are buying Studio for the very first time. What’s in store for them? Fragment recall and repair, an Advanced Display Filter, adaptive machine translation, improved segment merging and more. upLIFT fragment recall and match repair is worthy of a post of its own. So here it is. Read more…

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Keyboard Corner: Periboard-512B

Posted on 14 November 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

periboard_512bToday’s keyboard review is by Lucy Brooks, a German, French and Spanish to English translator and managing director of eCPD Webinars. Lucy is reporting on her favourite keyboard, the Perixx Periboard-512B. Might it be the perfect keyboard for you too? Read more…

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Translators’ associations: give, and you will receive

Posted on 7 November 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

METThe latest Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting (METM16 in Tarragona, Spain) has been the subject of entertaining blog posts by Allison Wright, Philippa Hammond, Simon Berrill, Rob Lunn and possibly others, too. Simon and Rob also published follow-up posts on their experience as presenters at METM16 (see here and here). I was planning on adding my own blog post to the list of first-person accounts – it’s always interesting to see what different people get out of the same event – but three weeks have flown by and new roles and challenges have changed that plan. Read more…

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Upcoming webinars for medical translators

Posted on 20 October 2016 by Emma Goldsmith

ecg_ecpdFollowing my double webinar session in September on EMA templates, fellow medical translator Jason Willis-Lee is also giving two presentations for eCPD Webinars, on Diabetes, cholesterol and triglycerides and The ECG made easy. I attended the ECG session live at METM16 last week and thoroughly recommend it. Read what Jason has to say about his upcoming webinars… Read more…

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