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How can I stop SDL 2019 from changing the original font size of a PPT?
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Aug 21, 2019

SDL 2019 changes the font size of the source document, so that I have to select this or that part of a large number of the translated slides to change the font from, say, size 20 back to the original size.

Note this is not consistent: some slides are fine and others are not and the ‘new’ fonts are not always of the same size. My document has 226 slides and I’ve had to put right about 2/3 of the slides I've already translated. A waste of time.

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SDL 2019 changes the font size of the source document, so that I have to select this or that part of a large number of the translated slides to change the font from, say, size 20 back to the original size.

Note this is not consistent: some slides are fine and others are not and the ‘new’ fonts are not always of the same size. My document has 226 slides and I’ve had to put right about 2/3 of the slides I've already translated. A waste of time.

I’d be grateful for any solution. Thank you (and apologies if this has already been discussed). ▲ Collapse
 
Dan Lucas
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Tag location? Aug 21, 2019

Ph_B wrote:
Note this is not consistent: some slides are fine and others are not and the ‘new’ fonts are not always of the same size.

I suspect you are ignoring or not noticing tags while translating, so that the location of the translated text is different to that of the original text, in terms of tag positioning. Consider the example below to be a typical target segment, with made-up tags:

TT1font-begin Untranslated text in a sentenceTT1font-end TT2font-begin formatted using different fonts.TT2font-end.

If you insert all the translation between the first set of tags, marking the "TT1" font, and delete the remainder of the text, which is between the set of tags marking the "TT2" font, you'll end up with something like this:

TT1font-begin The entire translated sentence is now in here, using only one font.TT1font-end TT2font-begin TT2font-end

Note that there is no text between the "TT2" font tags. When you generate the target document, the fonts (or other formatting) will no longer be identical to those in the source document. Instead of a mixture of the "TT1" and "TT2" fonts, it will be only "TT1", and you will be annoyed that Studio has changed your fonts.

If this is indeed what is happening - and it could be something else entirely - the only solution that I know of is to pay attention to tags in the SDL editor (making them visible) and be careful where you insert text as you translate. This takes more time.

For this reason I tend to avoid projects with lots of formatting tags. If you are working directly from the source document rather than a package you might be able to reduce the number of tags using the utilities in TransTools.

Dan

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Thanks! Aug 22, 2019

Much appreciated.
 


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