Which programs can be supported by Trados.

I have a customer who would like to have a TM but all his documents are in PDF form.





I hope you realize that you should be charging your client more for translating PDF documents given all the extra work involved.



All PDF documents were created from files in other formats -- there are no exceptions -- Acrobat cannot \'create\' documents on its own. This means that the original files exist somewhere and your client should be able to send you files that are easier to work with.



When it comes to sending a memory to a client that does not document formats that are easy to work with, you should be charging a reasonable fee for the memory. After all, it can take many hours to extract the text from PDF files and then many more hours to align texts. Alignment is only a semi-automated process. A lot of work is required to make sure all sentences are \'properly\' aligned.



In my opinion, only an hourly fee is appropriate.



Also, remember that once you supply a memory, there will be less translation work for you since the customer will benefit from the material in the memory.



If the client wants a memory, it must be because the client has the original files because the memory would not do them any good without the files (unless they also plan to extract the text from PDF documents).



It seems this client is expecting you to do all the work, but then maybe the client is paying for these additional services.



HTH,

Karin Adamczyk ▲ Collapse