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| Name | Swordfish Translation Editor | Atril Déjà Vu X2 Professional |
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| Most helpful review | Works perfectly ! SDL Trados just ignores the Mac users. It is expensive, the updates are expensive, innovations are rare, the technical support is not responsive.
Swordfish is a multi-platform tool. It is relatively cheap, the updates are free. It is a rather new product. Innovations, improvements are coming in regularly. The technical support and the forum are super responsive. The TMX files are Trados compatible.
No more SDL Trados for me !!!!!11 out of 12 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | Easy to learn None of the CAT tools are excellent but some of them are very good, DVX2 is one of them. Easy to install, easy to create a project, translation memory or termbase. Most functions are intuitive, possibly one can start translation right after installing it without reading the pdf help file even partially.21 out of 22 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | Swordfish III is an advanced CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators.
Swordfish III supports exchanging TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools, originally published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association).
Swordfish includes a super fast Internal database server and integrated support for RemoteTM in its two editions: LAN Server and Web Server. You can also use third party database engines like Oracle 10g, MySQL 5.x and Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 for storing TM and terminology data | DVX2 Professional combines Intelligent Quality technology with customizable productivity and quality assurance. |
| Price | Options starting at €70.00 | €590 |
| File formats | Abiword Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX) Adobe InDesign IDML (CS4/CS5) DITA Maps HTML Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Microsoft Visio 2007/2010 MIF (Maker Interchange Format) OpenOffice/StarOffice 1.x and | View all file formats here |
| License type | Perpetual | Perpetual |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux | Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000 |
| System requirements | Java 1.6/1.7 from Sun Microsystems or Oracle on Linux/Windows. Java 1.6 from Apple on Mac OS X. WebKitGTK+ 1.2.x is required to run on Linux systems. | Minimum system requirements: 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1GB RAM |
| Compatibility | XLIFF Supported natively. Accepts version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 Uncleaned RTF Accepts uncleaned (tagged) RTF produced by Trados or Wordfast and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files. TTX Seamless | Supports open standard file formats XLIFF, TMX, TBX & OLIF |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades to all future versions | Free technical support via support ticket center, Free updates, but not upgrades |
| Support and tutorial links | No data | No data |
| Free trial | No data | 30 day free trial |
| Languages supported | No data | Everything that takes place in Déjà Vu X2 happens within Unicode. This means that all the languages supported by Windows are supported by Déjà Vu X2. |
