[WNDW] Translations of the book - call for help

[Rob Flickenger]

Hello, Sylvia--

On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Sylvia Cadena wrote:

> I need to know how many words the book have and which was the program
> used to do the lay-out before converting it to PDF.

The total word count is 80,835.  The book was produced in Pages,  
which is only available on the Mac OS X platform.  I can provide a  
copy as RTF or as an MS Word document as well.  All of the  
illustrations are PDFs that were created in OmniGraffle (another OS X  
app.)  Some of these contain English words...  I can export those as  
EPS if needed.

I think that finding the tool that the translator is most comfortable  
with should help move things along.  As long as the work can be  
exported as a PDF through Distiller, it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for your efforts!

--Rob

> I've volunteer already to help you out to find support to translate  
> the
> book in French, Spanish and Portuguese. I've will put together a  
> budget
> that will cover the expenses of a full-time translator and a technical
> editor who will be in charge of reviewing that the translations are  
> not
> literal and respects the concepts behind your effort, and also that  
> will
> not edit/modified any of the information you all put together.
>
> I've will draft some kind of basic agreement that all the volunteers
> working towards local versions of the book, will follow, which is
> absolutely critical to keep the book as a single useful resource  
> instead
> of different books at the end.
>
> I've will share the proposal through the list to look for comments and
> suggestions.
>
> It will be great if you can contact the people from
> www.translationsforprogress.org and submit a request. That is  
> something
> that needs to be done by a member of the Book Sprint team.
>
> All the best,
>
> Sylvia
>