Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Translation Workspace -> are we forced to pay the $14/month to GeoWorkz as LB vendors?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dylan
[quote]Dylan Jan Hartmann wrote:
What I'd like to confirm, is whether everyone working with LB is also required to pay this monthly subscription... [/quote]
I regularly get jobs that "require" TWS Xliff Editor (TWSXE) but I work for intermediary agencies (not LB directly), so perhaps they have a special type of subscription with LB that allows them to farm out jobs to freelancers who are not subscribed. Installing TWSXE can be done without a subscription, and there is no need to "log in" to use it. Well, if you want to use the client's TM, then you have to log in to the client's TM server, but the login details are always shared with me by the agencies I work for.
Ultimately, I rarely actually connect to the TM. Most of the time when I do a TWSXE job, I don't actually use it (I use e.g. OmegaT, and just open the final file in TWSXE to check if it looks okay). But I suppose that if you get jobs that absolutely require you to use the client's TM or glossary and you are unable to get your hands on it otherwise, then you'd have to use TWSXE and you have to log in. For jobs that start out as mostly untranslated, and I have to use the client's TM (and I'm given the login details), I use a little AutoIt script to extract all necessary segments from the online TM, and then proceed offline in e.g. OmegaT.
To sum up: I'm not sure if working with **LB** themselves would require a subscription. But I do do some work for agencies who in turn do work for LB, and I don't have a subscription myself.
Topic: Translation Workspace -> are we forced to pay the $14/month to GeoWorkz as LB vendors?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dylan
[quote]Dylan Jan Hartmann wrote:
What I'd like to confirm, is whether everyone working with LB is also required to pay this monthly subscription... [/quote]
I regularly get jobs that "require" TWS Xliff Editor (TWSXE) but I work for intermediary agencies (not LB directly), so perhaps they have a special type of subscription with LB that allows them to farm out jobs to freelancers who are not subscribed. Installing TWSXE can be done without a subscription, and there is no need to "log in" to use it. Well, if you want to use the client's TM, then you have to log in to the client's TM server, but the login details are always shared with me by the agencies I work for.
Ultimately, I rarely actually connect to the TM. Most of the time when I do a TWSXE job, I don't actually use it (I use e.g. OmegaT, and just open the final file in TWSXE to check if it looks okay). But I suppose that if you get jobs that absolutely require you to use the client's TM or glossary and you are unable to get your hands on it otherwise, then you'd have to use TWSXE and you have to log in. For jobs that start out as mostly untranslated, and I have to use the client's TM (and I'm given the login details), I use a little AutoIt script to extract all necessary segments from the online TM, and then proceed offline in e.g. OmegaT.
To sum up: I'm not sure if working with **LB** themselves would require a subscription. But I do do some work for agencies who in turn do work for LB, and I don't have a subscription myself.