User Guide for Project Managers and Translators Copyright © Wordfast, LLC 2014. All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS About Wordfast Pro 3 help ................................................................................................. 7 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................ 7 Audience .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Organization ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Conventions ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Abbreviations and Acronyms ............................................................................................................... 9 About Wordfast Pro............................................................................................................11 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 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 ................................................................................................................. 14 Wordfast Pro 3 homepage ............................................................................................................. 14 Wordfast Pro homepage .................................................................................................................... 15 PM perspective ............................................................................................................................... 15 TXML editor perspective ................................................................................................................ 16 Using PM plug-in ................................................................................................................19 Receiving files and conversion rules ................................................................................................. 19 Setting up filters ................................................................................................................................. 19 Selecting filter settings ................................................................................................................... 21 Viewing default file filters ................................................................................................................ 22 Adding new file filters ..................................................................................................................... 24 Adding an Excel file filter ................................................................................................................ 27 Adding a PPT file filter .................................................................................................................... 38 Adding a Word file filter .................................................................................................................. 39 Selecting FrameMaker filter preferences ....................................................................................... 40 Adding an IDML Filter..................................................................................................................... 42 Analyzing files .................................................................................................................................... 43 Selecting Analysis output option .................................................................................................... 44 iii Wordfast User Guide Analyzing files ................................................................................................................................ 45 Extracting frequents ........................................................................................................................... 51 Populating frequents .......................................................................................................................... 53 Cleaning up and updating translation memory .................................................................................. 55 Pseudotranslation .............................................................................................................................. 58 Split/Merge TXML .............................................................................................................................. 62 Splitting TXML ................................................................................................................................ 63 Merge TXML ................................................................................................................................... 64 Bilingual Export .................................................................................................................................. 65 Export Only... .................................................................................................................................. 66 Export files for review ..................................................................................................................... 68 Import reviewed files ...................................................................................................................... 70 Show/Hide 100% ............................................................................................................................... 72 Transcheck ........................................................................................................................................ 75 Swap Source/Target .......................................................................................................................... 82 TXML editor menu options ................................................................................................85 TXML editor menu options ................................................................................................................. 85 File ..................................................................................................................................................... 85 Edit ..................................................................................................................................................... 86 Translation Memory ........................................................................................................................... 88 Terminology ....................................................................................................................................... 89 Window .............................................................................................................................................. 90 Help .................................................................................................................................................... 90 Managing projects ..............................................................................................................93 Creating or opening a project ............................................................................................................ 93 Creating or opening a TM .................................................................................................................. 97 Creating or opening a translation memory ..................................................................................... 97 Importing and exporting glossaries .................................................................................................. 110 Defining penalties ............................................................................................................................ 124 Defining color codes ........................................................................................................................ 126 Enabling spell check ........................................................................................................................ 130 iv Table of Contents Translating in a project ..................................................................................................................... 133 Opening a file ............................................................................................................................... 133 Translating a file 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