User Guide for Project Managers and Translators Copyright © Wordfast, LLC 2014. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS About Wordfast Pro 3 help ................................................................................................. 7 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................ 7 Audience .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Organization ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Conventions ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Abbreviations and Acronyms ............................................................................................................... 8 About Wordfast Pro............................................................................................................. 9 Overview .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Key advantages ................................................................................................................................ 9 Project Manager plug-in workflow .................................................................................................... 9 TXML editor workflow ..................................................................................................................... 10 Getting started with Wordfast Pro .....................................................................................11 System requirements ..................................................................................................................... 11 Installing and activating Wordfast Pro 3 ......................................................................................... 11 Opening Wordfast Pro 3 ................................................................................................................. 12 Wordfast Pro 3 homepage ............................................................................................................. 12 PM perspective ............................................................................................................................... 13 TXML editor perspective ................................................................................................................ 15 Using PM plug-in ................................................................................................................17 Receiving files and conversion rules ................................................................................................. 17 Setting up filters ................................................................................................................................. 18 Selecting filter settings ................................................................................................................... 19 Viewing default file filters ................................................................................................................ 20 Adding new file filters ..................................................................................................................... 22 Adding a new text-based (XML) filter ............................................................................................. 23 Adding an Excel file filter ................................................................................................................ 26 Adding a PowerPoint filter .............................................................................................................. 37 Adding a Word filter ........................................................................................................................ 38 Adding a SubRip Text filter ............................................................................................................ 41 Adding an IDML filter ...................................................................................................................... 44 Selecting FrameMaker filter preferences ....................................................................................... 48 Selecting ICML filter preferences ................................................................................................... 50 Analyzing files .................................................................................................................................... 51 iii Wordfast User Guide Selecting Analysis output option .................................................................................................... 52 Analyzing files ................................................................................................................................ 53 Extracting frequents ........................................................................................................................... 59 Populating frequents .......................................................................................................................... 61 Cleaning up and updating translation memory .................................................................................. 63 Pseudotranslation .............................................................................................................................. 65 Split/Merge TXML .............................................................................................................................. 69 Splitting TXML ................................................................................................................................ 71 Merge TXML ................................................................................................................................... 71 Bilingual Export .................................................................................................................................. 72 Export Only... .................................................................................................................................. 74 Export files for review ..................................................................................................................... 76 Import reviewed files ...................................................................................................................... 79 Show/Hide 100% ............................................................................................................................... 80 Transcheck ........................................................................................................................................ 83 Export notes ................................................................................................................................... 90 Segment Changes Report .............................................................................................................. 90 Swap Source/Target .......................................................................................................................... 91 TXML editor menu options ................................................................................................94 File ..................................................................................................................................................... 94 Edit ..................................................................................................................................................... 95 Translation Memory ........................................................................................................................... 97 Terminology ....................................................................................................................................... 98 Window .............................................................................................................................................. 99 Help .................................................................................................................................................... 99 Managing projects ............................................................................................................ 101 Creating or opening a project .......................................................................................................... 101 Creating or opening a TM ................................................................................................................ 105 Selecting translation memory settings ......................................................................................... 106 Creating a local TM ...................................................................................................................... 109 Adding a local TM ......................................................................................................................... 111 Exporting a local TM..................................................................................................................... 113 iv Table of Contents Adding a remote TM to WFServer ..............................................................................................