Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Alt-down generate just tags, but not segments
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title:"Char Char" rogue style
[quote]Seth Phillips wrote:
It turns out the source file is corrupt and that I need a clean file. I just copied and pasted the text into a new MS-Word file and it seems to be working now. Next question, what constitutes a clean file?[/quote]
Your particular problem was related to a document plagued with the "Char Char" rogue style, which behaves a bit like cancer cells in the human body. As Microsoft themselves explains, "there is no workaround for existing documents that already have this issue". If you expect to get similar documents from the same client, you may want to tell them about this issue, as they have probably been creating lots of rogue documents from the same old affected template.
A good way to spot "rogue" documents is to look at their style list. If the list is extremely long (like 50 styles or more), chances are this will be a tricky document for Wordfast (and probably most other translation tools as well). OCR programs and PDF converters are notorious for creating such "rogue" documents.
Topic: Alt-down generate just tags, but not segments
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title:"Char Char" rogue style
[quote]Seth Phillips wrote:
It turns out the source file is corrupt and that I need a clean file. I just copied and pasted the text into a new MS-Word file and it seems to be working now. Next question, what constitutes a clean file?[/quote]
Your particular problem was related to a document plagued with the "Char Char" rogue style, which behaves a bit like cancer cells in the human body. As Microsoft themselves explains, "there is no workaround for existing documents that already have this issue". If you expect to get similar documents from the same client, you may want to tell them about this issue, as they have probably been creating lots of rogue documents from the same old affected template.
A good way to spot "rogue" documents is to look at their style list. If the list is extremely long (like 50 styles or more), chances are this will be a tricky document for Wordfast (and probably most other translation tools as well). OCR programs and PDF converters are notorious for creating such "rogue" documents.
