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    In-Context Preview

    The In-context Preview feature offers a real-time preview of original or translated text directly in the Memsource Editor.

    Clicking on a segment to be translated highlights the respective text in the preview window and displays the position of the translated segment within the document.

    Clicking on text within the preview causes the translation grid to indicate the corresponding segment for editing.

    During QA, clicking on a warning navigates the Linguist to the position of the warning within the document.

    Tables, columns, various graphics, formatting, and fonts are supported. The feature is meant to provide context when translating and is not a perfect representation of the original or completed document; some visual differences are expected.

    The preview also has zoom functionality.

    Notice

    The in-context preview in the web browser may be affected by the Editor having only a portion of segments loaded at a given time; skipping over large groups of segments can lead to an incomplete preview. 

    Scrolling through the translation table and loading segments from the beginning of a major section (e.g. a chapter) or from the beginning of a job improves the preview.

    Supported file types:

    • Microsoft Word

    • Microsoft Excel (including multilingual files)

    • Microsoft PowerPoint

    • Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

    • HTML

    • XML with style sheets (including multilingual files)

    • RTF

    • DITA

    • Markdown

    • IDML (Beta)

    If a preview can not be generated due to unsupported file type or preview limits are exceeded, a preview can be downloaded from the Document menu.

    Preview for InDesign Files

    Memsource offers a limited version of live in-context preview for InDesign files. The preview supports all in-context preview functions (source and target preview, real-time changes, navigating from the translation table to the preview window and the other way round, and zoom) and it supports a wide range of InDesign components.

    Restrictions:

    • INDD files imported into Memsource are converted to IDML.

    • Images are not displayed when importing an INDD file (images are lost in the conversion to IDML).

    • Images are displayed for imported IDML files with embedded images.

    • The maximum size for any image is 500 KB, and the total size for all images must be 10 MB or less.

    Static Preview as PDF

    Preview PDFs of your IDML files can be viewed in Memsource Editor with Frontlab Integration. This is not a live in-context preview, but users are able to generate a PDF-based preview of translated IDML or INDD files.

    To generate the preview:

    • From the Document menu, select Preview Translation.

      If the source file is an IDML or INDD file, Memsource generates and opens a PDF file of the preview.

    Preview Options

    To change Preview options, follow these steps:

    1. From the Tools menu, select Preview.

      Options are presented.

    2. Select:

      • Disable to turn off the Preview.

      • Source to view the source file in the preview.

      • Target to view the target file in the preview.

    If the target segment in the translation grid is empty, the target preview will show the original text. When editing, it is shown in the target preview. Changes made in the translated segments are immediately presented.

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