Thread: Quarks, Translation, DTP...!

Hi Everyone!
I´ve been re visiting many threads devoted to "Quark"...Oh my...

There´s whole threads varying from the "exchange" format", to the "export-import" process, to DTP issues!
I think there´s no other Design Program taking so many posts like Quark has done so far...

So, my question is which is the best or one of the best translation tools to work Quark without "killing" all of the formatting once translation has taken place...

I have this feeling that this question might bring up many many other questions!! So, let´s share!!

Hi Gentle
How you doing?

It´s funny we always come across in these "easy" posts...
Well, yeah, I would like to know if someone has been doing anything different from what I do, because even though I try hard, Im still not very happy with the outputs I get when it comes to Quark files.

I¨ll try to explain basically what I do and then we can compare this with what others do and hopefully we can get a good recipe for Quarks!

I open the Quark file, and then I go to the Copy Flow tab, then I click in Auto name boxes (It´s HIGHLY IMPORTANT that here you add an easy name, a name that you WILL remember later at the Import stage, for instance "file1"
Then you cick "ok" and you "Save" the file.
Once it´s been "Saved", you go to "Export". The annoying part here is that you have to manually look for the path.
And you will get the "Tag" file, which you´ll use for translation.

So nice of you to take time to post all steps with screenshots! Let's go step by step and, in the future, I will know that I have like guidelines in this friendly forum.

So far, I do the same thing that you do. I suppose you "flush" the Quark file next, don't you?

Yes, I think screenshots are the best guidelines, you feel more confident about what you are doing...
So, once you "Export" the content, you´ll get a "tag" file.
This "tag" file is what you´ll use for translation in your prefered CAT TOOL.

The reason why I opened this new thread was that I wanted to know which Cat Tools you guys use for "Tags", because I´d like to hear other ways of doing this

Once I get the "tag", I open it in Tag Editor, because later on, I´ll use that "tag.ttx" to upload to Memsource.