Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT Tool Use as Terminology/Glossary Search & Replace Tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Re: Wordfast
[quote]Tuan Dzung wrote:
I think Wordfast is a suitable CAT tool for you. [The demo version] is free (but can only save 1000 translation units to the translation memory), but you can use background translation memory. [/quote]
Yes, Wordfast's demo limit used to be 500 segments per TM, but it now is 1000. Some CAT tools allow you to use multiple TMs, but Wordfast Classic (WFC) allows only one writable TM (called the TM) and one read-only TM (called the "background TM"), and the demo version of WFC allows around 1000 segments per TM before it stops working and you have to create a new TM.
WFC does offer pre-translation while replacing terms from the glossary, but it is not instantaneous as in some other CAT tools, since WFC works inside MS Word as a macro. Wordfast Pro 3 is different from Wordfast Classic, and Wordfast Pro 5 is a completely different from both of them. And "Wordfast Anywhere" is an online version of a mixture between WFC, WFP3 and WFP5. I'm not sure what pre-translation with automatic glossary-replacement features WFP3 and WFP5 have, but I do know what WFP5 has nice colouration of terms.
Topic: CAT Tool Use as Terminology/Glossary Search & Replace Tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Re: Wordfast
[quote]Tuan Dzung wrote:
I think Wordfast is a suitable CAT tool for you. [The demo version] is free (but can only save 1000 translation units to the translation memory), but you can use background translation memory. [/quote]
Yes, Wordfast's demo limit used to be 500 segments per TM, but it now is 1000. Some CAT tools allow you to use multiple TMs, but Wordfast Classic (WFC) allows only one writable TM (called the TM) and one read-only TM (called the "background TM"), and the demo version of WFC allows around 1000 segments per TM before it stops working and you have to create a new TM.
WFC does offer pre-translation while replacing terms from the glossary, but it is not instantaneous as in some other CAT tools, since WFC works inside MS Word as a macro. Wordfast Pro 3 is different from Wordfast Classic, and Wordfast Pro 5 is a completely different from both of them. And "Wordfast Anywhere" is an online version of a mixture between WFC, WFP3 and WFP5. I'm not sure what pre-translation with automatic glossary-replacement features WFP3 and WFP5 have, but I do know what WFP5 has nice colouration of terms.