There are two ways to start a new translation in SDL Trados Studio. These options are available from any view in SDL Trados Studio:
Select File > New > Project from the menu bar.
Select File > Open > Document from the menu bar.
The two methods are described below.
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New Project |
Use this command to create multiple new translations by creating a project using the New Project Wizard. This allows you to specify settings while creating the translation, such as the source and target language of the translation, project file settings, which termbase to use, which translation memories to apply and which translation memory options to use. Click here for step-by-step instructions. |
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Use the Open Document command to quickly open a document and start a new translation. Starting a translation using this method bypasses the selections you make when using the New Project Wizard. For example, you do not specify settings for pre-translation. Using the Open Document command, you can create and save an SDLXLIFF file which contains source language segments only and then, from this, create further SDLXLIFF files which have a target language assigned to them. Once you have created the SDLXLIFF file, you can modify translation memory settings using the Project Settings dialog box. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
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When you open a source language document for the first time, SDL Trados Studio recognizes that this is a new translation and automatically:
Takes the content of the source language document and breaks it down into segments.
Places the document segments in an SDLXLIFF file.
Applies translation memory to the document segments (if a translation memory is open).
SDL Trados Studio automatically identifies the appropriate encoding for the language you are translating the document into.
SDLXLIFF is an XML based bilingual file format, specially developed for use in localization. It is bilingual because it contains both the source document and the document translation in a single file. When an SDLXLIFF file is displayed in the Editor window in the Editor view, the source document text is displayed on the left of the Editor window and the target version of the text is displayed on the right.
When you save an SDLXLIFF file, the SDLXLIFF extension is added to the name of the source language document being translated. For example, a source document named Sample.doc would be saved as Sample.doc.SDLXLIFF.
When you open a document in the Editor view, the document content is broken down into chunks called segments:
Each segment is displayed in a separate box.
The segments are displayed in the order in which they appear in the document and are numbered sequentially.
Each segment represents a sentence (or a sub-sentence) in the source document. Documents are broken down in this way to enable translation memory lookups to take place. The same segmentation rules are used to create both document segments and translation memory segments.