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How do we translate PDF with SDL Trados 2011
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FarkasAndras
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funky spaces Apr 24, 2012

SDL Support wrote:

FarkasAndras wrote:

BTW Paul, can you ask the developers to fix spaces in the PDF import filter? Studio tries to get word spacing "right" by entering two spaces and specific-width (extra narrow and extra wide) spaces between words. This is the source of 90% of surplus tags in my pdf files, and it should be trivially easy to fix in the import filters. In running text, anything between certain limits should be treated as a normal single space.


1. This doesn't happen with every file does it?
2. Can you give me a sample I can use to repro and we'll put a fix into the works



Indeed, it doesn't happen with every file. As luck would have it, it recently happened with a confidential file, while of course everything went smoothly with a pdf file that's in the public domain...
So I can't share the original PDF, but here's what the end result looks like in Studio:


Sample from Word document:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16377950/spaces.doc


Even if SDL can't fix the converter itself, it should be able to simply convert all specific-width spaces to normal spaces internally in pdf.sdlxliff files and get rid of this mess. I can't imagine any circumstances where 0.15 width spaces would be correctly recognized/useful/necessary so you can nuke them all without collateral damage.
It is possible to fix this by converting all spaces to normal in Word, but it's a pain.

[Edited at 2012-04-24 07:52 GMT]
 
Secilia Njau
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Thanks! Apr 28, 2012

I would like to thank you all for your time for this forum, I have gain a lot from your discussion.
 
Miroslav Jeftic
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:) Nov 14, 2012

SDL Support wrote:

You'd be surprised how many translators have told me they only purchased Studio so they could handle pdf files..!


And are they happy with the results...? I'm with Henning on this, a complex PDF is a disaster waiting to happen
 
Dominic D.
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Jesus... Aug 16, 2018

Jesus $(%*#$% Christ, we're in 2018 and they STILL haven't fixed the double-space after PDF conversion problem. This AGAIN confirms my theory that SDL has not really been dealing with any actual bug fixing since… I don't know when.


This is so dismaying seeing software developers just not giving a toss about quality and reliability problems. Happens more and more often these days.
 
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