Avoiding the $36 Comma: Clever Editing Strategies Can Reduce Translation Costs

摘要

Editing documents can often lead to unanticipated translation costs. Translation expenses are primarily based on word counts. Translation memory enables the reuse of translations across updates and in similar components, decreasing cost and increasing consistency. Reducing the number of words to be translated and edited, by writing and editing less, can drive down expenses. Using tag-based formats (XML and HTML) instead of formatted files (unstructured FrameMaker, InDesign, Word) can also reduce translation costs.