It's head-scratching time...
Mar. 11th, 2013 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI am simply... stunned... at the idea that someone could take a Word document (one that had been submitted previously for translation), make revisions to it, and then create a PDF of the result and send the PDF for use in "updating" the original translation!
The fact that some of the text in the PDF is highlighted is not much of a consolation, because (a) there's no highlighting of any text that may have been deleted (and I've already found some), (b) there's no way to consistently move from one such highlighted revision to another (other than through the assiduous application of the Mark One eyeball), and (c) if I had a nickel for every time a client sent an update in any kind of revision mode (ranging from actual down-and-out revision mode to manual highlighting of changes) where the updated file didn't accurately reflect all of the deltas from what had been sent to me previously, I could seriously think about retiring to a small Caribbean island.
On the one hand, if I had wanted an easy job, I wouldn't have ended up a translator. On the other... why do some people seem to be almost aggressive in their thoughtlessness?
The fact that some of the text in the PDF is highlighted is not much of a consolation, because (a) there's no highlighting of any text that may have been deleted (and I've already found some), (b) there's no way to consistently move from one such highlighted revision to another (other than through the assiduous application of the Mark One eyeball), and (c) if I had a nickel for every time a client sent an update in any kind of revision mode (ranging from actual down-and-out revision mode to manual highlighting of changes) where the updated file didn't accurately reflect all of the deltas from what had been sent to me previously, I could seriously think about retiring to a small Caribbean island.
On the one hand, if I had wanted an easy job, I wouldn't have ended up a translator. On the other... why do some people seem to be almost aggressive in their thoughtlessness?
