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Eva H 
United States
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English to Hungarian
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Hello,
What would you suggest as a very user-friendly CAT tool? I work on a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.5.8. I would use it for translations, usually in Word, from English, French and German into Hungarian. (I would not like to install any other software, like Parallels, etc.).
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
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Pablo Bouvier
Spain
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German to Spanish
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| | CAT Tools for MacBook Pro | Jan 17, 2010 |
Take a look here and may be here.
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Henry Zhang
United Kingdom
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English to Chinese
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Grayson Morris
Netherlands
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Hi Eva, I've recently started a 30-day trial of Swordfish (version two), and I'm quite pleased with it so far. The developer is more than helpful; I've asked about four questions in the past two days in the Yahoo! Groups forum for Swordfish support, and he answered every one within a few hours. And the product itself is a pleasure to use, and reasonably well documented.
I also gave OmegaT a spin a year or so ago, but the inability to edit the glossary on the fly killed what I see as the main advantage of CAT tools: building a glossary of all those terms you spend hours researching so you can get the right nuance in the right context (or the right legalspeak in the right country).
ETA: I have a MacBook running 10.5.8.
[Edited at 2010-01-18 16:17 GMT]
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Monique Rojkind
Mexico
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Spanish to English
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| | Swordfish II | Jan 19, 2010 |
I have also recently started the 30 say trial and I love Swordfish II.
It is an incredibly helpful tool and I think it will help me increase my business, so I will definitely be purchasing the license.
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Eva H
United States
Local time: 02:35
Member (2008)
English to Hungarian
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TOPIC STARTER | | Thank you for your ideas! | Jan 21, 2010 |
Hi All,
I really appreciate your help. I will try out Swordfish and OmegaT. Although I understand Wordfast is the most comprehensive CAT tool, I hesitate because it has too many features, and it requires a significant amount of training which is not in proportion with my present needs. Maybe one day...
Best regards,
Eva
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Rick Henry
United States
Local time: 01:35
Italian to English
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| | Learning/using a CAT tool... | Jan 21, 2010 |
Eva H wrote:
...Although I understand Wordfast is the most comprehensive CAT tool, I hesitate because it has too many features, and it requires a significant amount of training which is not in proportion with my present needs. Maybe one day...
Best regards,
Eva
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Actually, Wordfast is no more difficult to learn than Swordfish or OmegaT, if you've worked with a CAT tool before. It's pretty intuitive.
If this is your first time working with a CAT tool, expect a bit of a learning curve for any of the tools.
R.
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[Edited at 2010-01-21 14:12 GMT]
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Eva H
United States
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English to Hungarian
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TOPIC STARTER | | Actually, it will be my very first time working with a CAT tool | Jan 21, 2010 |
Eva H wrote:
...Although I understand Wordfast is the most comprehensive CAT tool, I hesitate because it has too many features, and it requires a significant amount of training which is not in proportion with my present needs. Maybe one day...
Best regards,
Eva
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Actually, Wordfast is no more difficult to learn than Swordfish or OmegaT, if you've worked with a CAT tool before. It's pretty intuitive.
If this is your first time working with a CAT tool, expect a bit of a learning curve for any of the tools.
R.
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[Edited at 2010-01-21 14:12 GMT] [/quote]
Hi Rick,
It will be my very first time working with a CAT tool, this is what I meant when I wrote I would like to work with a "very user-friendly" tool...
[Edited at 2010-01-21 14:59 GMT]
[Edited at 2010-01-21 15:00 GMT]
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Paula Hernández
Spain
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Member (2008)
English to Spanish
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| | Tag settings in swordfish? | Jun 20, 2010 |
Hi, I am trying swordfish and I am more than willing to change form Trados (and PC) to this tool and stick to Mac. However I have a doubt. I've been reading the manual for swordfish and checking on Internet and could not find an answer to hot to adjust the tag settings (ini file in Trados) with this program.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks!
Paula
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Rodolfo Raya
Uruguay
Local time: 03:35
 Partial member (2008)
English to Spanish
| | .ini files not needed | Jun 21, 2010 |
Hi,
You don't need Trados .ini files when working with Swordfish.
Regards,
Rodolfo
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esperantisto
Belarus
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Member (2006)
English to Russian
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Rick Henry wrote:
Actually, Wordfast is no more difficult to learn than Swordfish or OmegaT, |
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Learning OmegaT requires 5 minutes (reading the start-up guide displayed when the program launches). Wordfast Pro has more features, thus requires more time.
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I really doubt, there is “the most comprehensive CAT tool” at all. I prefer OmegaT for its flexibility and transferability. You can put all the stuff, i.e., the program, the Java Runtime Environment, projects, on a USB flash drive and immediately start working anywhere, where an operating computer with a USB port is available.
Well, just try all options to see what suits you.
One more program that should run on Mac is Anaphraseus. Although still in beta state, it can be used for certain projects, if you understand its limitations.
BTW, most translators have several CAT programs for various situations. I have all three mentioned in this post
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