Re: decision trees and localization

[Joe Pairman <joepairman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi Kathleen

One thing to bear in mind about translating SVGs: at least up to a couple
of years ago, there wasn't a consistent way to treat a multi-line block of
text as a single item for translation purposes. SVG Tiny 1.2 had the
textArea <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/text.html#TextInAnArea> element
for this purpose, but most tools didn't support it. However, if each string
in your document is on a single line, this may not be a big problem for
you, especially as Chinese translations normally take less space than
English.

Joe


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Kathleen Johnson <
Kathleen -dot- Johnson -at- visionsolutions -dot- com> wrote:

> Thanks Robert! Your idea pointed me in the right direction and I found a
> solution that was even easier, and it was staring me right in the face!  I
> already save the Visio drawings to SVG, and an SVG file is an XML-based
> file. Fortunately, Visio is consistent in its markup. The vendor can work
> with the SVG files and translate just the <desc> </desc> markup. They won't
> have to worry about the Visio file and I won't have to worry about messing
> anything up trying to do it myself. Translation memory will hopefully keep
> track if anything changes between now and the next release.
> Thanks,
> Kathleen
>
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> Visio can pull text from an XML file. It should be cheaper to translate
> XML text files.
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