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Anne Standal
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Aug 12, 2013

I have Transit NXT Freelance lisence (SP 6) and need to send my translation to a proofreader who doesn't have Transit. How do I go about doing this? I rememer there was an option for exporting language pairs to bilingual Word tables for proofreading, but this was years ago and probaly in Transit XV.
 
wilhelm_zwo (X)
wilhelm_zwo (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 10:13
German to Dutch
Print to PDF Aug 13, 2013

How about printing language pairs to PDF?
 
Anne Standal
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Would have been an alternative if I could make it work Aug 14, 2013

Thanks for your reply. If I could make it work, this would have been an option, but strangely nothing happens when I try (as described in the documentation, I have deselected the Print to File option). Printing to PDF from other applications works, but unfortunately not from my Transit NXT installation. I can however print to xps format.

Anyway I think that a bilingual Word table would be better as corrections can easily be made with track changes. PDF readers do in my experience no... See more
Thanks for your reply. If I could make it work, this would have been an option, but strangely nothing happens when I try (as described in the documentation, I have deselected the Print to File option). Printing to PDF from other applications works, but unfortunately not from my Transit NXT installation. I can however print to xps format.

Anyway I think that a bilingual Word table would be better as corrections can easily be made with track changes. PDF readers do in my experience not have this option. That's why I haven't focused on the PDF problem as yet, but perhaps I have to


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wilhelm_zwo (X)
wilhelm_zwo (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 10:13
German to Dutch
Installl FreePDF Aug 14, 2013

You'll have to install FreePDF first. Then you convert the PDF to Word via SolidPDF or a free tool. Then you can track changes. Yes, I know ... a lot of steps.

http://freepdfxp.de

http://www.pdftoword.com etc.
 
Anne Standal
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Thanks! Aug 14, 2013

Thank you for this workaround. It's a great help!
 


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