Je ne suis pas un "camper" heureux...

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My first day with Trados has not been a good one.

First, it would appear that I've violated the license agreement by printing out some of the documentation. (I actually read the agreement the third time I installed the software, after having installed and uninstalled it twice, which should give you a pretty good idea of my progress today.) The agreement explicitly states - and early on, too - that you cannot print any of their documentation or online stuff. Whoo-eee!

To limit a purchaser to having to use Adobe Acrobat's interface while trying to grok this package is a little much. I suspect such a requirement may violate the Geneva Convention on the treatment of software customers.

Anyway, installing Trados Frelance 5.5 on a system equipped with Windows Me and Office 97 gets me nothing but the string "-{}-" when I try to use the Trados toolbar.

Installing the software a fourth time on a system loaded with Windows Me and Word 2000 gets me the same thing: "-{}-"

Obviously, eight hours is not enough time to get the software up and running. (And despite my experience, I have to assume that it runs on the systems of other people, right?)

But I am definitely not a happy camper right now.

Cheers...

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In my previous life in translation, I made repeated attempts at installing Trados, none of which were successful.