Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: What is the easiest-to-use tool for large Word documents with tables, figures and text boxes?
Poster: John Fossey
Post title: More or less
[quote]BNN Medical Translations wrote:
I assume the TM databases of all these programs are compatible between each other, so I can pick up where I left off once the trial of one program finishes and I start the next? [/quote]
They are more or less compatible with each other. Any modern CAT tool can import the TMX file from any other CAT tool. But the (relatively minor) problem is that CAT tools tend not to segment documents in exactly the same way as each other. So when you import a TMX file into another tool, it might not be a perfect match. This is not usually a major problem, because when you pretranslate from the TM, a few mismatched segments will be empty, but you can still find the missing text in the TM and copy it in.
[Edited at 2017-08-17 17:24 GMT]
Topic: What is the easiest-to-use tool for large Word documents with tables, figures and text boxes?
Poster: John Fossey
Post title: More or less
[quote]BNN Medical Translations wrote:
I assume the TM databases of all these programs are compatible between each other, so I can pick up where I left off once the trial of one program finishes and I start the next? [/quote]
They are more or less compatible with each other. Any modern CAT tool can import the TMX file from any other CAT tool. But the (relatively minor) problem is that CAT tools tend not to segment documents in exactly the same way as each other. So when you import a TMX file into another tool, it might not be a perfect match. This is not usually a major problem, because when you pretranslate from the TM, a few mismatched segments will be empty, but you can still find the missing text in the TM and copy it in.
[Edited at 2017-08-17 17:24 GMT]