Swordfish Translation Editor is the advanced Computer Aided Translation tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators.
Swordfish 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, published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association).
Here are some key features of "Swordfish Translation Editor":
Broad range of supported file formats:
General documentation types:
· Abiword
· Adobe InDesign Interchange
· HTML
· Microsoft Office 2007
· MIF (Maker Interchange Format)
· OpenOffice/StarOffice 1.x and 2.x
· Plain Text
· RTF (Rich Text Format)
· Tagged RTF
· Trados TTX
· TXML (GlobalLink/Wordfast PRO)
· XML (Generic)
· XML
Software development types:
· JavaScript
· Java Properties
· PO (Portable Objects)
· .ts (Qt Linguist Translation Source)
· RC (C/C++ Resources
· ResX (.NET Resources)
Flexible Licensing:
· Swordfish licenses are affordable and portable. Licenses can be transferred from one computer to another in seconds. Buy one license and use it in the computer you have at hand. A Swordfish license can be used in any operating system where Swordfish runs.
Compatible with other CAT tools:
· XLIFF: Supported natively. Accepts version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2
· Tagged (uncleaned) RTF: Accepts uncleaned RTF produced by other applications and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files.
· TTX: Seamlessly converts Trados TTX files to XLIFF and back. Swordfish has built-in capabilities for segmenting TTX files.
· TXML: full round trip (TXML-> XLIFF -> TXML) of GlobalLink / Wordfast PRO files.
Excellent Support:
· Good technical support is an essential part of any software product. At Maxprograms we are proud of our support service. In fact, the quality of our support service is one of our strongest selling points.
In-Context Exact Matches:
· Easily reuse translations by importing them from previously translated XLIFF files. Swordish extracts translations for individual segments, considering previous and following ones as context.
Fully Configurable:
· Fonts and colors
· Keyboard shortcuts
· External file viewers
· Language Codes
· Segmentation Rules
· Conversion rules for XML files
· Custom XML catalogs
Complete Segment Filtering:
· Swordfish lets translators hide/show segments filtering on multiple status options, like: is translatable, has translation, has comments, is approved, etc.
Comfortable Proof Reading:
· Swordfish generates HTML views from XLIFF files that lets translators/reviewers proof read comforatbly in the system`s default web browser. The generated HTML can be customized by end users, adjusting the provided XSL stylesheets.
Advanced Translation Engines:
· Swordfish includes two translation engines: a "traditional" TM (Translation Memory) system that provides exceptional matching and Auto-Translation, an exclusive technology that assembles matches from regular TM databases and Terminology databases.
Multiple TM and Terminology Databases:
· Swordfish includes an Internal database server based on HSQL database engine, adequate for small databases. It also includes integrated support for Oracle 10g and MySQL (4.x/5.x) for storing unlimited amounts of TM data.
Extensible via plugins:
· Swordfish has a powerful plugin architecture that lets users process individual segments or complete XLIFF documents with external applications. The included GTranslate plugin, for example, obtains translations for segments or full documents from Google`s Machine Translation engine.
Requirements:
· Java 1.5 or later
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New:
· Added full screen mode.
· Improved support for tables in IDML files.
Fixes:
· Remembered language pair when storing terms or individual segments in Internal databases.
· Restored the fix for handling of images in DITA in Windows installers.
· Fixed conversion to original format of XLIFF files from DITA Maps with embedded skeletons.
· Fixed bug in tags analysis.
· Fixed display of concordance search results on Linux.
