[KeriVit]

A customer of mine needs a generic screenshot of some kind of table but he needs it to be in Chinese- can anyone out there take something like that for me?

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
A customer of mine needs a generic screenshot of some kind of table but he needs it to be in Chinese- can anyone out there take something like that for me?

What sort of table? Like an Excel/Word table or a dining table? Your image isn't showing so I don't know what you mean exactly.

[effgee]

there ya go ...

[KeriVit]

Can you still not see it? Also, what is the standard sheet size in China? (Like US Letter = 8 1/2x11)?

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
Can you still not see it? Also, what is the standard sheet size in China? (Like US Letter = 8 1/2x11)?

Still can't see it. As far as letter size, I don't know, but if you can't find out for sure, I'd go with A4 since that's used pretty much everywhere else besides States.

[KeriVit]

[effgee]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
Can you still not see it? Also, what is the standard sheet size in China? (Like US Letter = 8 1/2x11)?

Not sure about the main land of China but I do know for sure that Taiwan uses the DIN system. Letter size in the US = DIN A4 = 210 x 297 mm.

Also, you're going to have to be a bit more specific in what you mean by "table". On your pic there's a column chart, a pie chart, some wiggly curve thingie as well as a nearly illegible printout of what looks like an inventory list of sorts.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
A customer of mine needs a generic screenshot of some kind of table but he needs it to be in Chinese- can anyone out there take something like that for me?

Could you please be MORE VAGUE !

-t

[KeriVit]

Originally posted by effgee:
Not sure about the main land of China but I do know for sure that Taiwan uses the DIN system. Letter size in the US = DIN A4 = 210 x 297 mm.

Also, you're going to have to be a bit more specific in what you mean by "table". On your pic there's a column chart, a pie chart, some wiggly curve thingie as well as a nearly illegible printout of what looks like an inventory list of sorts.

How about a bar graph with different levels- that says Motion Control Projected Sales and/or Annual Figures. I want to keep it simple. Basically, my client believes that people in China wouldn't appreciate an American graphic. The illegible printout doesn't matter. I only need the screenshot so I can superimpose it on the monitor. Sorry it's so light- - it's a background piece.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
How about a bar graph with different levels- that says Motion Control Projected Sales and/or Annual Figures. I want to keep it simple. Basically, my client believes that people in China wouldn't appreciate an American graphic. The illegible printout doesn't matter. I only need the screenshot so I can superimpose it on the monitor. Sorry it's so light- - it's a background piece.

You know, you can do this yourself. Just activate one of the Chines languages in the language control panel, open an Excel template file, take a screen-capture of it, and BAM! you've got your image.

You're Welcome!

[effgee]

I think KeriVit would like the (Chinese) text to actually be the little blurb about "motion control" he quoted and not some dummy text that might turn out to be something embarassing when a real Chinese guy reads it.

Imagine an ad for a motion control company and the text on the graph reads: "I like to have sex with goats"



Probably not the most efficient ad campaign ...




Uh yeah. Sorry KeriVit, no knowledge of Chinese on this side of my desk ...

[KeriVit]

Alright- I'll see if he can get one of his counterparts in China to take care of it. Thanks anyway!

[Oisín]

I can probably help you with the words that you were looking for...

'Annual figures' would most likely be 全年数字.

But I don't know what 'motion control' is, so I can't translate that one so well... could you explain what exactly it is? Everything that has to do with motors of any kind? Or something along those lines?

Googling a little, I've come up with the following:

"Term used to describe a variety of techniques for orchestrating the movement of machinery and objects. The fields of "Robotics," "CNC," and "automation" all fall under its umbrella."

"A computerized method of planning and repeating camera movements on miniatures, models, and process work."

So... something with mechanically controlling the movement of some little gadget, right?

If so, 'motion control projected sales [figures]' would be something along the lines of 动作控制预测数字.

[KeriVit]

That's cool. You got themeaning of motion control correct... how do I get those chinese characters?

Not much experience with this. It usually get translated outside of here and comes back as a pretty Quark file!

[Oisín]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
That's cool. You got themeaning of motion control correct... how do I get those chinese characters?

Not much experience with this. It usually get translated outside of here and comes back as a pretty Quark file!

You can just copy them from my post and then paste it into whatever you want to use it for, can't you?

Otherwise I guess you'd have to type it yourself... Yikes, I don't know much about typing Chinese on a Mac, but assuming it's basically the same system as on Windows, ie. typing by intuitive Pinyin, you can try the following:

Open the app/doc/file you want to enter the text into. Choose Chinese input (you'd have to activate/install/something that first, of course).

Type in "quannianshuzi" for 全年数字 (annual figures). If it looks like different characters, try using the left-right arrows to go back across the characters you've written, it should (hopefully) pop up a little menu where you can choose other possibilities. 全年 is one word and should be findable as a unit, and the same goes for 数字.

For 动作控制预测数字 (motion control projected sales), type in "dongzuokongzhiyuceshuzi", and follow the same steps as above.

If that doesn't work... ehh... dunno...

[Xeo]

Originally posted by effgee:
Uh yeah. Sorry KeriVit, no knowledge of Chinese on this side of my desk ...

Move to the other side of your desk?



Oh, and make sure you use a character that means "peace" or "love."

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Oh, and make sure you use a character that means "peace" or "love."

You can stick in a little "安爱和" (peace, love and harmony) somewhere.

Also, I forgot to ask - is this meant for Chinese people from Mainland China or from Taiwan/Singapore/Hong Kong? Because if it's meant for people from T/S/HK, it should be in unsimplified characters, not simplified ones (which are only used in Mainland China).

The unsimplified equivalents are:

全年数字 -> 全年數字
动作控制预测数字 -> 動作控制預測數字

Not that much of a difference, but they'll notice, trust me

[KeriVit]

Originally posted by Oisín:
You can stick in a little "安爱和" (peace, love and harmony) somewhere.

Also, I forgot to ask - is this meant for Chinese people from Mainland China or from Taiwan/Singapore/Hong Kong? Because if it's meant for people from T/S/HK, it should be in unsimplified characters, not simplified ones (which are only used in Mainland China).

The unsimplified equivalents are:

全年数字 -> 全年數字
动作控制预测数字 -> 動作控制預測數字

Not that much of a difference, but they'll notice, trust me

I'll give it a shot tomorrow at work- Thanks. Oh and Shanghai btw.

[Oisín]

Then just the first ones I posted, the simplified ones

[KeriVit]

Well I tried it- worked for most of it just copying and pasting into Illustrator. But I got some question marks too.

I'm up to the challenge though, still plugging away. Will try it on my Windows machine next.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
I'm up to the challenge though, still plugging away. Will try it on my Windows machine next.

Just be aware that in many programs on Windoze (such as Flash, Photoshop, probably Illustrator etc. as well), you have to make sure before you do the actual pasting that the font you use is one of the fonts that actually contains the Chinese character set. In programs such as Word (or in a browser, etc.), the program automatically switches to an 'Asian font' although your Latin text is in another font, but this doesn't happen in these other programs, so if you use, for instance, Lucida and paste the Chinese, you'll just get question marks. Try switching to something like SimSun (on Windows), that's the standard one.

[Randman]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
Basically, my client believes that people in China wouldn't appreciate an American graphic.

WOW! Your client is a really stupid, ignorant ...