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Well, that's what happens when you respond to a response--you miss half of the original sender's questions. So let me try again.
>- The major points of how the process works. Is it basically the same as
>translation into a Western European language? What are the differences?
Essentially (as I understand), except you need to use a different character encoding. The process also depends on the tools you and the translaotr use. Are you planning on having a trabslator work directly in Frame, your are you using some kind of translation environment? If you're using a tool like TRADOS, you'll have some setup time that will add some cost, but it will probably more than pay for itself in reuse for future rolls of the documentation.
>- Will I be able to read the files after they are converted, or does that
>require a different O/S?
For Frame, you can probably just use Win 2000 or XP with Greek resources.
>- Would I be able to read a pdf file produced from the Greek FrameMaker
>manual, or are there special O/S or software requirements in that case as
>well?
If you embed the fonts, you should be fine.
>- Is it, in your (experienced) opinion, better to convert the files to rtf
>and publish a greek-language manual in Word? I'd hate to do it, but will if
>necessary.
That shouldn't be necessary.
Bill Burns
Technical Communications Manager
MS Help MVP
Lionbridge Technologies
bill_burns -at- lionbridge -dot- com
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