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Subject:Re: Numbers or Letters when labeling a graphic? From:sharipunyon -at- gmail -dot- com To:Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:42:18 -0400
For translation that can get ugly, especially when you remember that German translations are about 30% longer than their English counterparts. Really, based on experience, you want to give translators graphic files they donât have to edit. Technology may have improved matters since I last dealt with it, but translating graphics adds a lot of time, expensive, and possibility of error. Text can be automatically sucked out of the files, and then reimported. Graphics are much more manual.
> On Apr 24, 2018, at 2:54 AM, Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> wrote:
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> If not too much text is involved, I'd used call-outs/bubbles with the actual explanation inside.
> HTH,
> Erika
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