Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: What is the easiest-to-use tool for large Word documents with tables, figures and text boxes?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Developer responsiveness
[quote]CafeTran Training wrote:
With CafeTran you can focus on your work and in the rare occasions that you have a problem, you can depend on the programmer himself to help you. [/quote]
I agree with this sentiment. I had forgotten about this but I did a trial of CafeTran. Ultimately, because my clients only ever requested SDL Trados packages, I went with Studio. Nevertheless, I was very impressed with the functionality of CafeTran, the speed with which new features were added and the great, responsive support of the developer. It was also significantly less expensive than the big three tools.
Having thought about it, if I were using a CAT tool only for myself, and not for dealing with packages sent by agencies, CafeTran would be at or very near the top of my list. And I say that as a Trados user.
With regard to Samuel's comments, it is possible for these things to happen. It once happened to me when a known bug in Studio prevented me from exporting the file. It had to do with a comment I had inserted, and after deleting the comment, I was able to export the file. (In any case, I would have been able to copy and paste if the worst came to the worst.)
I should say that Samuel - going by his posts here on the forum - is a pretty advanced user and seems to get involved in some tricky stuff with a wide variety of file formats. Conversely, I do mostly vanilla Word/Excel/PowerPoint files and I have only ever run into problems exporting that one time [EDIT as far as I can remember].
Overall, I guess my views are similar to those expressed above by Lincoln: you are about as likely to get problems with Word (or Excel) as you are from your CAT tool. I certainly wouldn't let it put me off trying CAT tools.
Regards,
Dan
[Edited at 2017-08-17 09:24 GMT]
Topic: What is the easiest-to-use tool for large Word documents with tables, figures and text boxes?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Developer responsiveness
[quote]CafeTran Training wrote:
With CafeTran you can focus on your work and in the rare occasions that you have a problem, you can depend on the programmer himself to help you. [/quote]
I agree with this sentiment. I had forgotten about this but I did a trial of CafeTran. Ultimately, because my clients only ever requested SDL Trados packages, I went with Studio. Nevertheless, I was very impressed with the functionality of CafeTran, the speed with which new features were added and the great, responsive support of the developer. It was also significantly less expensive than the big three tools.
Having thought about it, if I were using a CAT tool only for myself, and not for dealing with packages sent by agencies, CafeTran would be at or very near the top of my list. And I say that as a Trados user.
With regard to Samuel's comments, it is possible for these things to happen. It once happened to me when a known bug in Studio prevented me from exporting the file. It had to do with a comment I had inserted, and after deleting the comment, I was able to export the file. (In any case, I would have been able to copy and paste if the worst came to the worst.)
I should say that Samuel - going by his posts here on the forum - is a pretty advanced user and seems to get involved in some tricky stuff with a wide variety of file formats. Conversely, I do mostly vanilla Word/Excel/PowerPoint files and I have only ever run into problems exporting that one time [EDIT as far as I can remember].
Overall, I guess my views are similar to those expressed above by Lincoln: you are about as likely to get problems with Word (or Excel) as you are from your CAT tool. I certainly wouldn't let it put me off trying CAT tools.
Regards,
Dan
[Edited at 2017-08-17 09:24 GMT]