Overcorrection...

[alexpgp]

To make up for the past couple of days, today went by like a blur.

Of course, finding that I'd omitted doing the last page of the translation on Saturday wasn't pleasant, but at least I caught the error before sending the job off to the client. Fortunately, it was a short page.

The invoices went off, as planned.

The loan payment on the store (which I still think of as a "mortgage") was paid.

Payroll was met.

A couple of checks came in the mail, which is always good news.

However, attempting to fix some broken stuff in the daily spreadsheet cost me a lot of time, so by the time I got out of the store, it was nearly 2 pm. I hardly had time to let lunch settle before Drew called asking me to help out for the UPS rush at 4. I went down to the store and helped.

In the middle of all this, an agency I did some work for l-o-n-g ago (ca. 1994-1995) called with a job. The TIFF file they sent was nearly 3 MB large, and measured 17233 pixels wide and 9584 pixels high! Needless to say, neither my monitor nor my printer can handle this kind of graphic, so I ended up cutting pieces of the image and pasting them into individual, smaller images that were printable.

I managed to get all the information printed out on 12 pages of paper. The content of the image is one of those humungous tables that catalog the contents of some other drawing. It should not take too long, but I just hope tomorrow is not a repeat of today, timewise.

* * *I happened to be awake when Bush went on the air with his address at 6 pm (local time). Although I'm sure his words will not change the minds of those who have not sided with the United States, those words nonetheless needed to be said.

* * *A few minutes ago, I passed by the bedroom and Galina was watching Children of Dune. I do not understand this. Galina generally has no patience with science fiction or, strange to say, black-and-white films. Myself, I don't really like picking up the story line in the middle of a mini-series, so I didn't hang around very long.

Cheers...

Comments

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

In case those rocket scientists ever do that again, you can import tif files into Acrobat (the full version) and specify that it prints to one page, same thing in photoshop, but not a lot of translation companies have photoshop. I'm kind of surprised that they even sent it that way.

The mind bogglingly large tif file first came to my attention during the translation for the Czech National Bank vs. Unisys litigation. It's going to become more and more popular in international law because they can catalog the tif originals to broadcast next to the translated version. The translated version gets indexed, so they can do fast searching for discovery documents. It's a cool idea, and much better than carting tons of paper into court.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

> catalog the tif originals to broadcast next to the translated version

Could you expand on this? I'm not certain what "to broadcast next to the translated version" might mean. Thanks.

Cheers...

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[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

In court, if they need to make reference to a document, they can use a projector and a laptop to project the original and the translated text side by side. This came in very handy in both of the litigations I was actually in the courtroom for. They usually have one firm do the translating, then hire a translator from another firm, or the opposing side brings one in. If there are any disputes, the original is on hand.