This is one of the really annoying issues that happen every once in a while, when you’re working on .ttx files in SDL Trados Studio 2011 or 2014: everything goes well in Studio, until you generate the target .ttx and realize it doesn’t open in TagEditor, with the following error message: “(40007): Error reading TTX file: Expected end of tag ‘Raw’“.
According to SDL Support, the typical causes are the following:
– the TTX was opened using smart tag pairing in Studio
– the TTX was unsegmented and Studio finished it off with Studio segmentation and tagging
Here, I will assume you don’t have access to the source file used to create the .ttx – why would one translate a .ttx in Studio rather than the source file itself otherwise?
1. In the first case, you can try to reopen and, using your TM, retranslate the original .ttx after deactivating the smart tag pairing option of Trados Studio. To do that: Go to Options – File Types – TRADOStag – Compatibility, and check the first option, which is “Treat all inline tags as placeholders (disable smart tag pairing)” in English.
2. If that doesn’t do the trick, it is possible that the .ttx file you worked on wasn’t segmented. If you have Tag Editor, open the original .ttx with any TM for your language pair and save it – as simple as that, you don’t need to touch anything there. Then you can recreate your project with the newly saved file, translate it using your Trados Studio TM and generate the target .ttx correctly.
If you don’t have Tag Editor, you can ask the person who created the .ttx file to perform this step for you. In case that’s not an option either and there are no confidentiality issues involved, feel free to contact me and I will do my best to help 🙂
Hopefully one of these will work. My opinion is that Trados should have an option to segment files the same way Tag Editor used to. When I asked SDL about the issue, their reply was that my “lazy” (that’s the very word they used) clients should do the segmenting themselves and just move on. Typical SDL kindness…
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