Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: The best Translation Software ?
Poster: Christel Zipfel
Post title: That is exactly my problem, too
[quote]Susan Welsh wrote:
But in SDL Studio 2014 or Across, exporting a glossary or TM so that it can be used by another CAT tool is a huge hassle, on which I have wasted many hours. [/quote]
Very well put, Susan!
Now I don't use neither Studio nor Across, but only WfC with its text TMs.
Generally all tools claim to be compatible with each other. Maybe this is even true, to some extent, and certainly there are CATs which could be very interesting. But what if you cannot even start to try the programme because it cannot read the TM which is in a different fomat, it's too much hussle for you to convert it, and starting from scratch without any of your TMs with ten-thousands of TUs would not be a good idea either?
I am not at all computer illiterate, but when it comes to codes, to headers that don't match and so on, I am stuck. I have tried to convert to TMX with WfC and Olifant. When trying to import a TM converted by WfC in another CAT, I am told that something in the header is wrong, and Olifant starts outright with error messages that I don't understand; in both cases I don't have the slightest idea of what I'm supposed to do.
So for lack of time but more often than not impossibility to find a solution you continue to go ahead once more with your good old CAT and you'll never know what you lose.
Topic: The best Translation Software ?
Poster: Christel Zipfel
Post title: That is exactly my problem, too
[quote]Susan Welsh wrote:
But in SDL Studio 2014 or Across, exporting a glossary or TM so that it can be used by another CAT tool is a huge hassle, on which I have wasted many hours. [/quote]
Very well put, Susan!
Now I don't use neither Studio nor Across, but only WfC with its text TMs.
Generally all tools claim to be compatible with each other. Maybe this is even true, to some extent, and certainly there are CATs which could be very interesting. But what if you cannot even start to try the programme because it cannot read the TM which is in a different fomat, it's too much hussle for you to convert it, and starting from scratch without any of your TMs with ten-thousands of TUs would not be a good idea either?
I am not at all computer illiterate, but when it comes to codes, to headers that don't match and so on, I am stuck. I have tried to convert to TMX with WfC and Olifant. When trying to import a TM converted by WfC in another CAT, I am told that something in the header is wrong, and Olifant starts outright with error messages that I don't understand; in both cases I don't have the slightest idea of what I'm supposed to do.
So for lack of time but more often than not impossibility to find a solution you continue to go ahead once more with your good old CAT and you'll never know what you lose.