Re-translated German language file

[Markus Stamm]

I recently discovered ScanTailor and am extremely impressed by its functionality and features.

The only thing I did not like was the German translation - it was incomplete, in some cases flawed and difficult to understand without knowing the original text, and it contained colloquialisms that I find inappropriate in software that is likely used in professional settings also (for instance, the option "Beep when ready" was transliterated into "Piepen, wenn fertig").

I have therefore re-translated the German language file using Qt Linguist but am unsure how to best share the new translation. Is it appropriate to simply upload the new file into the repository, and/or what process is there to make the file available? Sorry if this is a silly question, I have just never contributed to such a project in this fashion before. Thanks for your advice.

[Joseph Artsimovich]

Hi Markus,

The current situation with Scan Tailor is as follows:

The official version is old and largely unmaintained. There is also a
number of no longer maintained forks by different people. Finally, there
is Scan Tailor Experimental that I work on from time to time. I do that
just for fun though, which also results in poor maintenance.

I can take your updated translation into Scan Tailor Experimental,
though some strings there would be different from the latest official
version. You would be able fix them later, should you wish to do so.
Just upload your .ts file(s) to some file sharing site and post the link
here.

Another option is to create a pull request on Github against the
official version, which I can then cherry-pick into Scan Tailor
Experimental. If you are not familiar with Git, go with the first option.

Regards,
Joseph Artsimovich

[Markus Stamm]

Hi Joseph,

thanks for your swift reply. You can find the re-translated language file here:

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/60406ecb

I have shared this translation with a friendly user (actually a close fried who pointed me to Scan Tailor in the first place) to get his feedback, and he did like the translation. Of course, I welcome comments by others and native speakers, as well.

I just downloaded Scan Tailor Experimental and would be happy to adapt my translation to Scan Tailor Experimental, too.

For me, Scan Tailor is extremely useful - I only wish I had discovered it earlier :-).

For the most part, I use Scan Tailor to work on raw scans generated from vintage technical journals. In addition to often poor paper quality and a natural aging-related deterioration, the challenge with these scans is that many pages will contain text and images, and before using Scan Tailor, I had to decide whether to scan these pages in full colour or greyscale mode, or in black and white. Either option did not produce satisfactory results, and I ended up scanning the pages that contained images twice - once in black and white to get a good text rendering, and once in colour to extract the images and insert them into the previously scanned text pages. The results this produced were ok, but the process was incredibly tedious. I use all of Scan Tailor's features, and for me, the ability to generate mixed-type output is one of the most useful features. So for me, finding Scan Tailor was really like hitting a jackpot, and if there is anything I can do to help, I'll gladly volunteer.

Best regards,
Markus Stamm

[Markus Stamm]

Hi Joseph,

perhaps I should have chosen a different One-Click Hoster - you need to uncheck "Download with Secure Download manager" to get the file directly. I hope this is acceptable, though.

Best regards,
Markus Stamm

[Joseph Artsimovich]

I did manage to download the .ts file rather than their download manager
in the end. I'll integrate this translation into ST Exp some time next week.

One more question: do you want to be mentioned in the About dialog?

Regards,
Joseph Artsimovich

[Markus Stamm]

Yes, I would like that indeed, thanks for asking.

I'll be testing Scan Tailor Experimental later today and will gladly translate it also.

Best regards,
Markus Stamm

[Joseph Artsimovich]

Hi Markus,

I integrated your updated translation into Scan Tailor experimental.

I didn't create a new release, but you can still download the source
code from: https://github.com/Tulon/scantailor/tree/experimental and
start working updating your translation for ST Exp. For testing, compile
your .ts file into .qm in Qt Linguist and overwrite the .qm file from
the latest release of ST Exp.

Regards,
Joseph Artsimovich