Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: MemoQ scrambling texts?
Poster: psicutrinius
Hello all.
Have been doing quite a long translation (over 10 Mb, thus no preview was available), first in word 2007 (I asked the client to try that in the first place). I found that, whenever there was a table with cells, memoQ did not seem to notice the cells, so it translated in line (horizontally) the first line of every cell instead of finishing the cell one line at a time and then going for the next. Also, the layout for the page went at least slightly awry from the beginning (and for 200 pages and being cumulative, you can imagine the aspect of the last 30 translated ones).
There were quite a number of these, therefore the additional work was short of awesome (and, in fact -which was the real problem- meant getting past the agreed delivery time), so I asked for the pdf (a pdf-A, thus editable), and tried to use the TM on it, but, first, segmentation had changed (totally) and, second, the problem with the cells persisted.
Any solutions? at the very least: any mitigations?. Plus, of course, I would love to know the reasons. If this is due to (for instance) the original being a series of cut-and-paste word texts from different authors as is the case for most technical manuals, in possible different versions of the software, or for updates "grafted into" the same way, which are then converted to pdf, I wouls like to know how to spot it.
Thanks in advance.