Example

About this task

Assume you wrote a program some time ago (for example: version1.exe) and had it translated to French (version1-fra.exe) either manually or with a program other than SDL Passolo. You have now developed the next version of this program (version2.exe) and want to translate it with Passolo. To set up a Passolo project in order to localize Version 2 of your program, please proceed as follows.

Procedure

  1. Create a new Passolo project with version1.exe as the source file and French as the target language. For more information on this, see Creating a New Project.
  2. Generate the source string list and the translation list. (See Creating String Lists).
  3. Select the translation list in the project window and choose Home tab > Scan Target File (Alignment).
  4. In the Align from field, enter the path for version1-fra.exe.
  5. You can ignore the option Overwrite strings that have already been translated, since the translation list does not yet contain any translated strings.
  6. The All strings in the target file are translated and checkboxes do not need to be activated since you can assume that the translations in Version1-fra.exe were reviewed previously.
  7. Click OK to close the dialog. If you subsequently open the translation list, you will see that the translated strings from version1-fra.exe have been imported.
  8. Now change the source file path to version2.exe and the target file path to version2-fra.exe.
  9. Update the source string list and the translation list. Only the strings appearing in red in the translation list need to be edited in order to create the new localized application (version2-fra.exe).