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JudyWiessner
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October 20, 2013
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Translating RH9 to another language

  • October 20, 2013
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Hi,

I'm looking for some advice here.  We have a number of projects we may need translated to another language.  The person doing the translating has no experience editing html, so he needs to work in Word.  I tried importing the .htm files to Word, but it doesn't accept them.

Does anyone have suggestions as to the simplest way to export/import the files so he can edit them in Word?  Generate a printed document?  Copy/paste the text into the individual files?

Does anyone have experience doing this?

Thanks!

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RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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October 21, 2013

Hi Marion.

I hope you won't mind me suggesting a different workflow. If your translator wants the output in Word, that is fine so long as you want to spend a lot of time working out how to get their translated output back into RoboHelp and sorting out any issues this workflow creates.

A better approach would be to find a translator that can use the RoboHelp source files and translate these. This requires them to be familiar with using the product but it will save you a lot of time and money.

There is also a good article on localising projects written by Ben Minson. It is a bit old now but the principles remain the same:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-archive/robohelp/articles/localized_projec ts.html

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JudyWiessnerAuthor
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October 21, 2013

Good article - thanks!

Unfortunately, time is of the essence, so I don't really have time to find another translator.  The guy we have is willing to learn to work in .html, but we'd have to get him some software and show him how to use it, and the risk of mistakes is too high.

I'll test the export/import method today.

Thanks for the feedback!

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 21, 2013

Have you planned how you will get him to translate the topic titles (rather than topic headings), the index, table of contents and suchlike?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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