Swordfish Translation Editor

{{Infobox software

| name = Swordfish Translation Editor

| latest release version = 5.9.0

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|12|08}}

| genre = Computer-assisted translation

| license = Open Source (Eclipse Public License)

| website = {{url|maxprograms.com}}

}}

Swordfish Translation Editor is a Computer-assisted translation software.

Features

It works with the XLIFF standard, after having extracted texts from a variety of file format.{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rmraya/Swordfish|title=Swordfish Translation Editor|accessdate=30 June 2023|publisher=GitHub}}{{cite web|url= http://prezi.com/j5uljy-loocx/swordfish/ |title=Swordfish II|accessdate=31 August 2013|publisher=Jessica Gomez and Joshua Ortiz}} It stores translation memory in an internal database and can export it in the standard TMX format; import is also possible.{{cite web|url=http://blog.philippahammond.net/2011/03/04/3-minute-review-of-swordfish-ii-cat-tool/|title=3-minute review of Swordfish II CAT tool|author=Philippa Hammond|date=4 March 2011|accessdate=21 February 2012|publisher=Blogging Translator}} A server, RemoteTM, can be used instead of the internal database if sharing is needed.

It supports the following localization industry standards:

Supported File Formats

OpenXLIFF Filters can generate XLIFF 1.2, 2.0 and 2.1 from these formats:

- General Documentation

- Adobe InCopy ICML

- Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX)

- Adobe InDesign IDML CS4, CS5, CS6 & CC

- HTML

- Microsoft Office (2007 and newer)

- Microsoft Visio XML Drawings (2007 and newer)

- MIF (Maker Interchange Format)

- OpenOffice / LibreOffice / StarOffice

- PHP Arrays

- Plain Text

- SDLXLIFF (Trados Studio)

- SRT Subtitles

- Trados Studio Packages (*.sdlppx)

- TXML (GlobalLink/Wordfast PRO)

- WPML XLIFF (WordPress Multilingual Plugin)

- Wordfast/GlobalLink XLIFF (*.txlf)

- XLIFF from Other Tools (.mqxliff, .txlf, .xliff, etc.)

- XML Formats

- XML (Generic)

- DITA 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3

- DocBook 3.x, 4.x and 5.x

- SVG

- Word 2003 ML

- XHTML

- Software Development

- JavaScript

- JSON

- Java Properties

- PHP Arrays

- PO (Portable Objects)

- RC (Windows C/C++ Resources)

- ResX (Windows .NET Resources)

- TS (Qt Linguist translation source)

Open API: Yes

Has a command line interface for using main features in batch mode.

Source: TAUS Tracker, http://www.taustracker.com/54/92-swordfish-translation-editor

See also

References

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