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Yeah, I agree. I thought it was a weird idea. Apparently it's something that
appeals to the engineers, but I can't imagine it appealing to anyone else!
Betsy
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:bill_swallow -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:13 AM
To: B. Pfister; TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: localization question
> I am about to localize a software product for
> several languages. The
> engineers want to know if I want them to use some
> sort of tool that
> will turn the dialog box text into gibberish for my
> screenshots. The
> idea is to get one set of shots. While it's cheap,
> I'm just not sure I
> like the idea. Is this something any of you have
> done?
Gibberish helps no one. If they are going to do that,
then there's no point in using screen shots in yuor
docs. Ideally you want to take screen shots of every
screen in every language. If you can't do this, do it
for the languages you can, and leave the screen shots
out for the other languages for now (or leave them in
without the translation so they at least know what
they look like). In the docs you can't get translated
screens for, try to get them an update with the screen
shots and mention this in the manual.
=====
Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
PowerAdz.com
518.687.6107
bswallow -at- poweradz -dot- com
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