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Subject:Re: Visio translatable? From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:55:14 -0800
Sorry to write something that could be interpreted more than one way. What I
meant by "translation" was into other languages, for example, French or
Spanish.
- Scott M
smiller -at- portal -dot- com
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> >Does anyone know if Visio drawings as easily translatable? They're vector
> >graphics, so they should be. Question is if translators know about Visio,
> >like it, hate it, etc. Thanks.
> >
>
>
> Visio is just making its way into the translation community. In our
> experience, few individual translators own it and -- more importantly --
> know how to use it. If this is route you're going, you may wish to extract
> translatable text to send to translators and later cutting-and-pasting
> back
> into Visio.
>
> However, professional translation companies like ForeignExchange routinely
> work in Visio. You should be able to send them the Visio files and receive
> translated files back. One caveat: if you are looking to translate into
> double-byte character set languages (e.g., Japanese, Arabic), be sure that
> you have the appropriate hardware and software to handle the returned
> elctronic files.
>
