RE: Frame to Word

[obair81 -at- comcast -dot- net]

Frame does not handle the language in question, Dari.

Could you tell me more about the special setup for Frame, and the name on the company that you use?

Paul

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From: "Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com>
> Paul wrote: 
> >> This is needed by our company to avoid the significant expense 
> >> of having a translation company spend many hours formatting 
> >> our ugly Word docs that come straight out of Frame. 
> 
> 
> Paul -
> 
> Is there a reason why you/they need Word files?  The translation
> companies that I work with handle Frame files with no problem, and it's
> a common application for long documents that are translated (such as
> user guides).
> 
> If the translators are telling you that they "don't do Frame files,"
> then my suggestion is to find another translation vendor.  They need to
> accommodate YOU, not the other way around.  
> 
> My documents are translated into 28 languages -- all but one or two of
> the languages stay in Frame.  Frame doesn't play nice with Arabic at all
> (a right-to-left [RTL] language), so I gave them the option of
> converting the content for that language to another program, such as
> Word or InDesign.  Instead, the translation company found a way to make
> it work by modifying the maker.ini file and other settings and they have
> Frame working in an RTL environment, which it was never designed to do.
> 
> *************************
> Carla Martinek, Translation Coordinator/Editor
> Zebra Technologies Corporation
> 333 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
> tel: 847.793.5616   fax: 847.821.1795
> cmartinek -at- zebra -dot- com
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