Expertise (Translation Support Tools) of Translation Company Chris Translation

To clear these issues, different tools equipped with advanced search functions must be used. However, ready-made tools do not have adequate functions for the special mission of translation.

Therefore Chris Translation developed its own tools designed for special functions, such as a tool to check translations for breaches of style rules and a tag search tool.

Lots of practical knowhow accumulated in years of experience are incorporated into these tools. These tools also provide a solid base for quality translation, service efficiency, and cost competitiveness.

Tools Developed by Chris Translation

SearchPlus
Designed to	Search TagEditor.
Functions	Enhanced version of the search function of TagEditor. Developed on our own. Search for tags (certain tags are not supported), regular expressions, and match rate specification are supported.

PreviewPlus
Designed to	Enhance the preview function of TagEditor.
Functions	Enhanced version of the preview function of TagEditor. Developed on our own. Because Internet Explorer or another browser is used to preview translations, searching, copying, and pasting are easy.

CheckMate
Designed to	Check translations for breaches of style guides.
Functions	A tool developed to check whether or not style guides are followed. Developed on our own. (The tool is still under development.) This tool can be used to create databases to conform to style guides provided by customers. At present, translations can be checked for certain breaches of the style guides of Microsoft. In the future, additional functions will be incorporated so that kanji and kana can be used properly and declensional kana endings can be checked. Currrently, the check function can only be used with .ttx files, but Word files will be also supported and batch processing will be allowed in the future.

CheckMate_on Word VBA
Designed to	Check translations for breaches of style guides.
Functions	Tool developed by inhouse editors, which uses the function of Word VBA. It is used to check whether or not style guides are followed. This tool can be used to create databases to conform to style guides provided by customers. One-byte characters can be distinguished from double-byte characters, kanji and kana can be used properly, and declensional kana endings can be checked. At present, the style guides of Microsoft and Oracle are supported. However, CheckMate, which is under development, is superior in usability and scalability. In the future, this tool will be integrated into CheckMate.

MemoryTrailer
Designed to	Convert different types of TRADOS data.
Functions	Data conversion between MultiTerm and Excel, TM and Excel, and analytical logs and Excel can be carried out.

Catch'n'Remove
Designed to	Extract or delete sections sandwiched between specified strings.

LiliTheSniffer
Designed to	Search multiple files for multiple keywords.

MetaRep
Designed to	Replace multiple strings in multiple files.

CNTforTRADOS
Designed to	Convert WinHelp CNT files so that they can be translated with TRADOS.

UIT (UI Implementation Tool)
Designed to	Embed UIs.
Functions	This tool assists operators in replacing original UI strings left among translations with proper UIs in reference to databases.

TRADOSManner
Designed to	Set Workbench or TagEditor collectively.
Functions	It is used to exchange files in order to set up TRADOS in another user's environment.

Chris Translation's Proprietary Tools

n DTP tools

Name	Version
MS Office	95/97/98/2000/XP
CorelDraw	New Version
FrameMaker	5.5J/6.0J
FrameMaker+SGML	5.6J
PaintShop Pro	4.2J
QuarkXPress	4.1J
PageMaker	6.0J
Photoshop	5.0J/5.5J
Adobe Illustrator	8
Macromedia FreeHand	8J
Macromedia Fireworks	3
Acrobat	5

n Engineering tools

Name	Version
HelpQA	2.1
HtmlQA	1.4
Microsoft Help WorkShop	4.03
Microsoft HTML Help WorkShop	1.3
Robohelp	2000
Robohelp HTML	2000
Visual Basic	6
MS Visual Studio	6

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