User Guide for Project Managers and Translators Copyright © Wordfast, LLC 2018. All rights reserved. i Table of Contents Table of Contents About Wordfast Pro 3 Guide ......................................................................................................................... 9 Purpose ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Audience .................................................................................................................................................... 9 Organization .............................................................................................................................................. 9 Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Abbreviations and Acronyms ................................................................................................................... 10 About Wordfast Pro ..................................................................................................................................... 11 Key advantages ....................................................................................................................................... 11 Project Manager plug-in workflow ........................................................................................................... 11 TXML editor workflow .............................................................................................................................. 12 Getting started with Wordfast Pro ............................................................................................................... 13 System requirements ............................................................................................................................... 13 Installing and activating Wordfast Pro 3 .................................................................................................. 13 Opening Wordfast Pro 3 .......................................................................................................................... 15 Wordfast Pro 3 homepage ...................................................................................................................... 15 PM perspective .................................................................................................................................... 16 TXML editor perspective ...................................................................................................................... 18 Using PM plug-in ......................................................................................................................................... 21 Receiving files and conversion rules ....................................................................................................... 22 Setting up filters ....................................................................................................................................... 22 Adding a new text-based (XML) filter ................................................................................................... 29 Adding an Excel file filter...................................................................................................................... 31 Adding a PowerPoint filter ................................................................................................................... 45 Adding a Word filter ............................................................................................................................. 46 Adding a SubRip Text filter .................................................................................................................. 49 Adding an IDML filter ........................................................................................................................... 52 Adding a Quark Documents filter ......................................................................................................... 56 Selecting FrameMaker filter preferences ............................................................................................. 57 ii Wordfast User Guide Selecting ICML filter preferences ......................................................................................................... 59 Selecting INX filter preferences ........................................................................................................... 61 Selecting SDLXLIFF filter preferences ................................................................................................ 62 Analyzing files .......................................................................................................................................... 64 Analyzing files process ........................................................................................................................ 64 Selecting Analysis output options ........................................................................................................ 71 Extracting frequents ................................................................................................................................. 73 Populating frequents ................................................................................................................................ 76 Transcheck .............................................................................................................................................. 78 Cleaning up and updating TM ................................................................................................................. 86 Selecting Cleanup options ................................................................................................................... 89 Pseudotranslation .................................................................................................................................... 91 Bilingual Export ........................................................................................................................................ 97 Export Only .......................................................................................................................................... 99 Export files for review ......................................................................................................................... 101 Import reviewed files .......................................................................................................................... 105 Split/Merge TXML .................................................................................................................................. 106 Splitting TXML .................................................................................................................................... 108 Merge TXML ...................................................................................................................................... 109 Show/Hide 100% ................................................................................................................................... 110 Swap Source/Target .............................................................................................................................. 113 TXML editor menu options ........................................................................................................................ 117 File ......................................................................................................................................................... 117 Edit ......................................................................................................................................................... 118 Translation Memory ............................................................................................................................... 120 Terminology ........................................................................................................................................... 121 Window .................................................................................................................................................. 122 Help ....................................................................................................................................................... 122 Managing projects ..................................................................................................................................... 125 iii Table of Contents Creating or opening a project ................................................................................................................ 125 Creating or opening a TM ...................................................................................................................... 129 Selecting translation memory settings ............................................................................................... 130 Creating a local TM ............................................................................................................................ 133 Adding a local TM .............................................................................................................................. 136 Exporting a local TM .........................................................................................................................