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Name Kaplan Desktop Swordfish Translation Editor
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(8 reviews)
Most helpful review
Works perfectly !
By Patricia Cardet
SDL Trados just ignores the Mac users. It is expensive, the updates are expensive, innovations are rare, the technical support is not responsive. Swordfish is a multi-platform tool. It is relatively cheap, the updates are free. It is a rather new product. Innovations, improvements are coming in regularly. The technical support and the forum are super responsive. The TMX files are Trados compatible. No more SDL Trados for me !!!!!
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Product description Free and open source CAT tool for linguists. Source code: https://github.com/kaplanPRO/kaplan-desktop Kaplan also offers a Python library for most CAT functions which one may use to develop their own CAT tool. The source code for the Python library: https://github.com/kaplanPRO/kaplanpy Both Kaplan Desktop and kaplanpy are distributed under the MIT License. For more information, please visit the project homepage at https://kaplan.pro Swordfish III is an advanced CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators. Swordfish III supports exchanging TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools, originally published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association). Swordfish includes a super fast Internal database server and integrated support for RemoteTM in its two editions: LAN Server and Web Server. You can also use third party database engines like Oracle 10g, MySQL 5.x and Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 for storing TM and terminology data
Price Free Options starting at €70.00
File formats docx, odp, ods, odt, po, sdlxliff, txt, xliff Abiword Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX) Adobe InDesign IDML (CS4/CS5) DITA Maps HTML Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Microsoft Visio 2007/2010 MIF (Maker Interchange Format) OpenOffice/StarOffice 1.x and
License type Perpetual, open source Perpetual
Operating system Windows, Linux Windows, Linux
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 Java 1.6/1.7 from Sun Microsystems or Oracle on Linux/Windows. Java 1.6 from Apple on Mac OS X. WebKitGTK+ 1.2.x is required to run on Linux systems.
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 XLIFF Supported natively. Accepts version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 Uncleaned RTF Accepts uncleaned (tagged) RTF produced by Trados or Wordfast and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files. TTX Seamless
Support and upgrades offered/included Free installation and licensing support, N/A - Software is free, Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription, Free upgrades to all future versions, Installation support Free upgrades to all future versions
Support and tutorial links [email protected]
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