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Oct. 22nd, 2013 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSo I get this PowerPoint job this morning. It's a rush.
I start up MemoQ 2013. It gets as far as "Initializing application..." and then hangs.
Old software engineering habits die hard, so I use Task Manager to kill the program and restart it. Same result.
I reinstall the latest build of the program and start it. Same result.
Oh, well... I guess I'll just do it "the old fashioned way," which is to say using Wordfast, which involves opening the file to be translated to be opened in Powerpoint and a work file to be created in Word. One then starts to translate the empty Word file, which causes Wordfast to go find the PowerPoint window, identify the first translatable segment, and display it in Word. One translates in Word, and the software takes care of shuttling data back and forth between the word processor and PowerPoint. Clunky, but it works.
Except it doesn't. Not now. Not for this file.
So now I am reduced to doing this "the real old-fashioned way," which involves translating "inside" the PowerPoint slides themselves.
Grrr.
I start up MemoQ 2013. It gets as far as "Initializing application..." and then hangs.
Old software engineering habits die hard, so I use Task Manager to kill the program and restart it. Same result.
I reinstall the latest build of the program and start it. Same result.
Oh, well... I guess I'll just do it "the old fashioned way," which is to say using Wordfast, which involves opening the file to be translated to be opened in Powerpoint and a work file to be created in Word. One then starts to translate the empty Word file, which causes Wordfast to go find the PowerPoint window, identify the first translatable segment, and display it in Word. One translates in Word, and the software takes care of shuttling data back and forth between the word processor and PowerPoint. Clunky, but it works.
Except it doesn't. Not now. Not for this file.
So now I am reduced to doing this "the real old-fashioned way," which involves translating "inside" the PowerPoint slides themselves.
Grrr.
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Date: 2013-10-22 11:56 pm (UTC)Did you fix it in time?
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Date: 2013-10-23 02:46 am (UTC)Cheers...