Metric - how many words on a page? Thread poster: JLLTranslation
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JLLTranslation
United Kingdom
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Hi,
I have been asked to give info on my experience for a potential new project and the client has asked for volume info.
I always work in no. of words but I have been asked for page counts.
Can anyone tell me roughly how many words of Italian or French (my usual source langs) might be on a page? There's probably a standard metric?
Many thanks in advance!
Jo
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Henry Hinds 
United States
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In memoriam | Don't give in | Mar 22, 2011 |
You work by the number of words, stick to that. Anyone who wants to translate that into pages can do it on their own.
One man's page is another's book and another's postage stamp. Continue to quote by the number of words.
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| Try Word Document | Mar 22, 2011 |
I don't know the average/standard number of words. However, you might try some MicrosoftWord documents or WordPerfect or whatever system you use. Several of the word processing programs have a "word count" option. Check several one-page documents or a few multi-page documents and average them out. That should give you an idea.
The number of words on a page will be affected by margin size, font, font size and spacing, of course.
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| Cartella: 60 characters per 30 lines | Mar 22, 2011 |
In Italy you usually use "cartella" which is 30 lines per 60 characters or a bit less. If you ask client how many "cartelle" there are on a page and you consider that 2000 characters is more or less 300 words (at least if I remember well) you can have a rough idea of what it is about...
JLLTranslation wrote:
Hi,
I have been asked to give info on my experience for a potential new project and the client has asked for volume info.
I always work in no. of words but I have been asked for page counts.
Can anyone tell me roughly how many words of Italian or French (my usual source langs) might be on a page? There's probably a standard metric?
Many thanks in advance!
Jo
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Germaine
Canada
Local time: 12:39
English to French
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| Thanks to technology, things change! | Mar 22, 2011 |
There was a time when a "page" was 200-250 words.
Then, there were 350-400-word pages.
Now, thanks to those marvellous scalable fonts (or is it that words used nowadays are shorter????) , you can receive an "it's-only-two-pages" letter of 1200 words!
Personnally, I consider a page to have 350 words.
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I always work in no. of words but I have been asked for page counts.
Calculate the number of words, decide what your page is (a good standard is 250 words), and quote "XXX pages of 250 words".
HTH.
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JLLTranslation
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:39
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Thanks all for your contributions.
The client tells me they consider 1500 characters (without spaces) as being a standard page so, if you reckon 300 words is 2000 characters, I'll go for 250 words to a page I think. It's only approximate, just to give the client an idea of the volume of work I've done on certain subjects and for certain clients.
Many thanks.
Jo
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| Actually, that's a cartella editoriale | Mar 22, 2011 |
milena ferrante wrote:
In Italy you usually use "cartella" which is 30 lines per 60 characters or a bit less. If you ask client how many "cartelle" there are on a page and you consider that 2000 characters is more or less 300 words (at least if I remember well) you can have a rough idea of what it is about...
30 lines per 60 characters (1800 characters per page) is the cartella editoriale, used in the publishing industry. The cartella commerciale (used outside publishing) is 1500 characters (25 lines of 60 characters).
The word count varies depending on the language (and on the text), but it usually is 225 - 250 word per cartella is a good estimate.
[Edited at 2011-03-22 20:03 GMT]
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