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Which Translation Memory tool for HTML pages?
Thread poster: Marta Amigo
Marta Amigo
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Mar 13, 2008

Hi

I usually translate HTML pages using Dreamweaver, but I would like to benefit from some sort of Translation Memory and glossaries. I have never used any CAT tools, I know nothing about them. I imagine that Wordfast is only for Word and one cannot use it with HTML pages.

Do I need to buy TRADOS? Are there any other options, like adding TM to Dreamweaver??

If I do buy TRADOS for my general translations, is it much better than Wordfast?

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Hi

I usually translate HTML pages using Dreamweaver, but I would like to benefit from some sort of Translation Memory and glossaries. I have never used any CAT tools, I know nothing about them. I imagine that Wordfast is only for Word and one cannot use it with HTML pages.

Do I need to buy TRADOS? Are there any other options, like adding TM to Dreamweaver??

If I do buy TRADOS for my general translations, is it much better than Wordfast?

Could someone advise?

Thanks!

Marta
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Attila Piróth
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Wordfast can handle HTML files Mar 13, 2008

See description here: http://global-tm.net/index.php?whichpage=knowledge&Task=view&questId=37&catId=18

So, you don't have to buy Trados for this task. Wordfast, as well as Deja Vu, MetaTexis, and others can also handle tagged HTML - and they all have trial versions (Trados, too). This may be a good opportunity to try some of them and decide whi
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See description here: http://global-tm.net/index.php?whichpage=knowledge&Task=view&questId=37&catId=18

So, you don't have to buy Trados for this task. Wordfast, as well as Deja Vu, MetaTexis, and others can also handle tagged HTML - and they all have trial versions (Trados, too). This may be a good opportunity to try some of them and decide which one you are most comfortable with.

Attila
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Hermann Bruns
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MetaTexis can handle HTML files conveniently Mar 13, 2008

Hello Marta,

MetaTexis can handle HTML files and is even more affordable than Wordfast, see www.metatexis.com.

Hermann


 
Mulyadi Subali
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omegat Mar 13, 2008

you can also use the free omegat. for more info on formats it can handle: http://www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html

 
Thorson
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OmegaT Mar 13, 2008

Mulyadi Subali wrote:

you can also use the free omegat. for more info on formats it can handle: http://www.omegat.org/en/omegat.html


I prefer OmegaT myself. Pulls the text out and reinserts it cleanly without screwing up the html.

It's also my preferred tool for formatted Word documents for the same reason--just convert to an Open Office document first, then use Open Office to convert back to Word after you're done.

I prefer to translate in paragraphs, and OmegaT lets you choose sentences or paragraphs.

[Edited at 2008-03-13 10:46]


 
Rossana Triaca
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Deja Vu X Mar 13, 2008

You'll always get different opinions about CATs since in the end it boils down to specific user and client needs and plain old taste.

Me? I root for Deja Vu X:

http://www.atril.com/

Download a free fully functional 30-day trial and see what it can do.


 
José Henrique Lamensdorf
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CatsCradle Mar 13, 2008

I've used CatsCradle, from http://www.stormdance.net/software/catscradle/overview.htm because it extracts text from the HTML and lets you "just translate", not touching the formatting. Don't know about the other options.

Free trial for a month, USD 80 to buy.

[Edited at 2008-03-13 11:06]


 
Selcuk Akyuz
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Deja Vu X Mar 13, 2008

I prefer Deja Vu X for any file format (except for AutoCAD files). But you should try and see. Demo versions are available for all CAT tools.

For a comparison betwen Trados and Wordfast see
http://catcompare.narod.ru./

[Edited at 2008-03-13 12:15]


 
Jan Sundström
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use the free trials Mar 13, 2008

Attila Piróth wrote:
So, you don't have to buy Trados for this task. Wordfast, as well as Deja Vu, MetaTexis, and others can also handle tagged HTML - and they all have trial versions (Trados, too).


Attila has a very good point.

If you want to start out in Trados, you can use the trial just for the creation of TTX files, and then use the free macro TTXpress to handle these files in your familiar Word interface. Very convenient!

/J


 
Marta Amigo
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Thank you! Mar 13, 2008

Thank you all for your replies!!!

Marta


 
Samuel Murray
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Actually, it does... Mar 13, 2008

Thorson wrote:
I prefer OmegaT myself. Pulls the text out and reinserts it cleanly without screwing up the html.


Actually, it does screw up the HTML (or rather, it changes it). Do yourself a favour -- get a diff tool like WinMerge. Then save this page (the one you're now looking at) and translate the first line of it in OmegaT. Then create the target file and compare it with the source file in WinMerge. See how many changes there are...

What happens is that OmegaT produces *better* HTML than the original.


 
Marc P (X)
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Which Translation Memory tool for HTML pages? Mar 13, 2008

Samuel Murray wrote:

What happens is that OmegaT produces *better* HTML than the original.


It is worth looking at

Options > File Filters > HTML and XHTML files > Options

Marc


 
David Turner
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Which Translation Memory tool for HTML pages? Mar 13, 2008

MemoQ must be one of the best. In version 2.3, it now has a translation preview window in which an HTML-based preview of the imported Word, Excel, Powerpoint or HTML files is generated to let you actually *see* what the exported translation will look like as you translate.

David Turner


 
Wolfgang Jörissen
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Use one with multiple files in one project Mar 14, 2008

Translating websites with up to hundreds of html files can be tiring if you have to open each file one at a time. That is why I would recommend a CAT tool that imports them all into one project and you can work on all of them simultaneously. AFAIK, Deja Vu X and MemoQ are capable of doing this. If others are too, I would love to hear about it.

 
Samuel Murray
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I selected "never" -- was that it? Mar 14, 2008

Marc P wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote:
What happens is that OmegaT produces *better* HTML than the original.

It is worth looking at
Options > File Filters > HTML and XHTML files > Options


Do you mean I have to select "Never"? Even if I do that, OmegaT still converts single quotes into double quotes (in some places, in the code, but not in the content), for example:

SL: <img border=0 src='/images/pftv6/quote_button.gif' alt='Reply with quote'>

TL: <img border=0 src='/images/pftv6/quote_button.gif' alt="Reply with quote">

...and it makes other changes (that make no sense to me), for example:

SL: </div> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr>

TL: </div> </td></tr> </span></td> </tr></table></td></tr>

and:

SL: </div> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr>

TL: </div> </td></tr> </div></td> </td></tr>

It would have been really nice if OmegaT's HTML filter could parse the HTML but not try to rewrite it.


 
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