PageMaker - importing Tagged Text (2)

Another suggestion:

1. Create a new PM file.

2. Place the other file in this new file. Select all stories.

3. Create one tagged text containing all stories.

IMPORTANT:
the way back—how to go back to the original formatting, but with a translated text, was never explained.

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PageMaker - Step-by-Step Instructions

Klas Törnquist

The Déjà Vu PageMaker filter IMO is OK.

You will need PageMaker and Trados StoryCollector.

You may encounter problems with Trados StoryCollector and the way the PageMaker file has been created. Tables created with Table Editor will have to be translated manually in PageMaker. Story Collector may skip text on pages containing certain types of graphics. I have had to manually remove graphics from PM files and then put them back after translation and export.

The process is a bit complex.

• Start by installing StoryCollector as a PM plug-in

• Next, save a copy of the PM file.

• Then, extract text using StoryCollector. This will produce a number of small text files.

• Next, import text files into Déjà Vu.

• Translate.

• Export from Déjà Vu.

• Import into PM using StoryCollector.

If I were you I would do a test run on a (preferably complex) PM file before accepting a PM translation job.

Suggestions from Tim Wright:

There are one or two precautionary things you can do first when dealing with PageMaker files:

1. Open the file in PM and perform a diagnostic recompose by holding down Shift+Control then Type menu -> Hyphenation if your computer beeps once no problems where found, if it beeps twice problems where found and fixed. If it beeps three times problems where found that could not be fixed*.

2. If the file is OK save the document under a new name using the Save as command.

3. Extract the text using Story Collector and then remember to save the document when you close it. (This is important)

4. When you have translated the text file produced by Story Collector import the file and perform the diagnostic recompose again then fix the layout.

* If three beeps were heard under step one you may experience problems when exporting and importing the text.

Also check to see if any extra text has been left on the pasteboard (shift + control + 0), use control + 0 to make the page fit the window again.

Another way to check a PM file for possible problems, is to start from the first page then use Shift-Layout->Go to page. PageMaker then displays pages one by one as a presentation and usually stops if there is a problem (offending link, etc.).

Hope this helps.

I've worked on a great number of PM files and have only run into trouble once and this was using the old, old Story Collector, the one Trados currently ships is a vast improvement.

Comment from Claudia Tomaschek:
As the others already mentioned Trados Story Collector is the solution, however problems are possible. I remember one project with a lot of tables that were built with use of single stories where I spend several days just reforming. Besides that Story Collector had simply forgotten about 5,000 words of text, which is just great a couple of hours before the deadline :-(. It also occasionally happens that even though there is no tag error and everything looks fine, you can't import the stories back to PageMaker. This happens especially when you work with a localized version of PageMaker. In that case you've got to copy the translation manually and that can be very time consuming. 
In any case before you decide on rates or the feasibility of the project, first export the stories back to PageMaker (sometimes that isn't possible even if you didn't translate anything) and do check the word count! So far I didn't have a PageMaker project that went as smooth as the usual Frame project.

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FrameMaker Options - DV3 & DVX (from a DV doc)

DV3 Options Window

DVX Filter Options

Best results are achieved when only the options "Ignore text on master page" is activated.

"Ignore Automatic Numbering Formats" (should be disabled by default):

CAUTION: Only activate this option if you know exactly what you are doing! By activating this option all texts that can be accessed via 'Paragraph Designer/Numbering/Format of automatic numbering' will be ignored during translation with Déjà Vu Interactive. This includes for instance table and figure captions (e.g. Table: xxx, Figure xxx). You should activate this option, for instance, if the Automatic Numbering Formats for the target language can be imported from a predefined target language template that already contains the target-language numbering formats. If you activate this option and do not import the translations from a target-language template, then you must manually translate these text portions in FrameMaker during layout control after translation.

"Ignore Variable Definitions" (should be disabled by default):

CAUTION: Only activate this option if you know exactly what you are doing! By activating this option all variables with text strings that can be accessed via 'Special/Variable/Edit Definition' will be ignored during translation with Déjà Vu Interactive. Activate this option, for instance, if target language variables (e.g. predefined display texts) can be imported from a master document which contains the predefined target language variables.

"Ignore Cross-Reference Format Texts" (should be disabled by default):

CAUTION: Only activate this option if you know exactly what you are doing! By activating this option all cross reference formats with text strings that can be accessed via 'Special/Cross Reference/Edit Format/Definition: ' will be ignored during translation with Déjà Vu Interactive. Activate this option, for instance, if target-language specific cross-reference format texts (e.g. see figure <xxx> on page <yyy>) can be imported from a master document which contains the pre-defined cross-reference formats of the target language. Alternatively you can also translate them in the master document and then apply them with File/Import/Formats (only Cross-reference activated) to the remaining files.

"Ignore Text on Master Page" (should be disabled by default):

CAUTION: Only activate this option if you know exactly what you are doing! By activating this option all text contained on the master page of the .mif documents will be ignored during translation with Déjà Vu Interactive. It might be that you have to manually translate some of that text manually during final layout control in FrameMaker. 

"Convert hard spaces to soft spaces" (should be disabled unless you want hard spaces to be converted): It is recommended that you leave this option deactivated.

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List of S-Tags

Extracted from S-Tagger for FrameMaker Help. Copyright (c) June 2005, TRADOS Inc. (Based on a tip from Lawrence Häcker)

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QSC and QXD file formats

John Wilcock

The .QSC files are just tagged text extracted from Xpress by Trados Story Collector for QuarkXpress. The format is essentially the same as the .QXD format generated by CopyFlow, so there's no need to segment
them with Trados - you can just process them in DV as if they were QXD files.

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