Translations

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The 2020 version of RoboHelp has a new translation feature that greatly simplifies translating a project. See the RoboHelp Tour for information.

The subject of translation crops up regularly in the RoboHelp forums and it is a task I have not been personally involved in. Whilst my work did not require projects to be translated, I have read various articles about it. I decided to embark on writing this article when I saw a post on the RoboHelp forums. Jutta Geisler-Sanders does undertake translation of her projects and she had responded to someone seeking help and it prompted me to write the first draft.

Translating a project the first time may seem fairly straightforward. It gets more complex when the translator is not a RoboHelp user and more so when the subject matter is updated as you only want to translate the changes. The aim here is to look at the methods that can be used and the issues involved.

Jutta helped me by commenting on the first draft and all I had to do was rewrite it! Being serious, her comments helped me structure it in a different and I hope better way.

I am indebted to Jutta for her assistance. For those of you who do not speak German, Jutta is the German equivalent of Judith.

Please click here for the instuctions.