How to translate hotspot text in MIFs with Trados Thread poster: Anninili
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Anninili
Local time: 11:34
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Hi,
I am trying to find a setting in the project templates (or where ever) that allows to translate Hotspot titles created in FrameMaker. Is that even possible? We have documents with graphics/embedded videos and hotspots. The text in the hotspot is suppose to appear as "hint" on the graphics/video - works fine - but when translating the document in Trados, the hotspot text is not "visible" and therefore cannot be translated, leading to funny German hints on English videos...![]() ... See more Hi,
I am trying to find a setting in the project templates (or where ever) that allows to translate Hotspot titles created in FrameMaker. Is that even possible? We have documents with graphics/embedded videos and hotspots. The text in the hotspot is suppose to appear as "hint" on the graphics/video - works fine - but when translating the document in Trados, the hotspot text is not "visible" and therefore cannot be translated, leading to funny German hints on English videos... I went through settings in the project template for MIFs but maybe there is secret combination I didn't find so far? The MIF definitely contains the text string.
I am wondering as all types of marker text appears as translateble text though I do not want to translate it (if anyone knows a solution/setting for that problem: please tell me, too - I have a lot of markers in the text and beside Index markers I do not want to translate any of them...) - but hotspot text somehow is not extracted?
So currently we are manually post-editing the documents in FrameMaker which is not that much fun and very error prone... and we would love to get of that task...
We are working with Trados 2019 Professional and FrameMaker 2019 (MIFs).
Thanks
Anneliese ▲ Collapse
| | | | Charles Peng 
China
Local time: 17:34
Member (2022)
English to Chinese
| Trados 2021 SR2: Hotspot text can only be partly parsed | Apr 26, 2022 |
Dear Anninili, I just tried again and have to edit this post in case of any misleading:
In Trados 2021 SR2, Hotspot text can only be partly parsed: only hypertext's name, but not the tooltip text.
Also, MemoQ 9.10 was tried but cannot parse tooltip text properly either...
[修改时间: 2022-04-26 18:07 GMT]
| | | | Anninili
Local time: 11:34
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TOPIC STARTER | Description text or tool tip text parsed? | Apr 26, 2022 |
Dear Charles,
thanks for your quick response! I will have a more detailed look tomorrow as I am off work now - but could it be that it parsed the description only (I just saw "study" in the despription vs. "Study" in the tool tip)? I get the description as well but not the relevant tooltip text. But as I said, I will get back to you tomorrow and will be happy to provide you with one of our test mifs if you really do... See more Dear Charles,
thanks for your quick response! I will have a more detailed look tomorrow as I am off work now - but could it be that it parsed the description only (I just saw "study" in the despription vs. "Study" in the tool tip)? I get the description as well but not the relevant tooltip text. But as I said, I will get back to you tomorrow and will be happy to provide you with one of our test mifs if you really do not mind - we are getting a little desperate inserting manually the translation for hundreds and more tool tips...
Thanks again
Anneliese ▲ Collapse
| | | | Charles Peng
China
Local time: 17:34
Member (2022)
English to Chinese
| Description text parsed only in Trados Studio | Apr 27, 2022 |
Dear Anninili, I tried again last night and saw that Description text was parsed only, so I updated my last post.
At this moment, one "possible" solution for this issue is:
Framemaker 16.0.1.817 -> File -> Translation -> Export to Xliff 1.2
But there are some Xliff export settings to be tweaked, so that we could know which setting would control the export of tooltip text.
If tooltip text can be successfully exported, we can translate them in... See more Dear Anninili, I tried again last night and saw that Description text was parsed only, so I updated my last post.
At this moment, one "possible" solution for this issue is:
Framemaker 16.0.1.817 -> File -> Translation -> Export to Xliff 1.2
But there are some Xliff export settings to be tweaked, so that we could know which setting would control the export of tooltip text.
If tooltip text can be successfully exported, we can translate them in Xliff format. ▲ Collapse
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Anninili
Local time: 11:34
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TOPIC STARTER
Dear Charles,
thanks for your efforts and the time you invested, we are not moving to the FM version with xliff export any time soon - so if no one else has solution or workaround I guess we will continue manually updating those tool tips...
Regards
Annelies
| | | | Charles Peng
China
Local time: 17:34
Member (2022)
English to Chinese
It's my pleasure! I am interested in localization related engineering issue, and so sorry for not finding the solution at this moment. But let's keep an eye on this.
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