![]() Finally in some cases they are forced by business requirements to the technology of the LSP they are affiliated to.The third and last point I took away from reading the post was that Wordfast and memoQ are the most common CAT tools after Trados. We have talked about Trados many times in these pages, and have covered memoQ on several occasions as well. There are 4 separate versions in the Wordfast offering: However Wordfast which is also in the Top 3 of our own never-ending Poll in the right sidebar, was never yet covered on Localization, Localisation.Wordfast Anywhere: a web-based CAT tools with Translation Memory, Glossary and Machine Translation functionality.It is available free-of-charge for translators.Wordfast Classic: a well-established, Microsoft Word-based translation tool.For readers more familiar with Trados, this is the equivalent to using Workbench in Word instead of translating in TagEditor.Wordfast Server: an enterprise Translation Memory server compatible with the other 3 Wordfast applications.Wordfast Pro: the professional, full-featured CAT tool, flagship of the Wordfast family.One of its main attributes is the extensive platform compatibility: it supports Mac OS and Linux as well as the Windows. Wordfast Pro is the application I will talk about in the rest of this post. ![]() The latest version of Wordfast Pro (3.1.5 at the time of writing) is available for download from their website. ![]() The trial version has no feature limitation other than a 500 Translation Units cap in the TM. The installation itself is very fast and requires minimal user input. There is one screen in the wizard which lets you select optional components like the Aligner or PDF Support and choose the Hunspell spell checker languages to install. Wordfast can also use the Microsoft Office spell checker dictionaries if they are installed. ![]() Create a Project ( File – Create Project…).Once that’s done, you can immediately get started with your first translation by following these steps: On my Windows system, the whole installation process took about 2 minutes. ![]()
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