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Free Software for Translators
I have set this portion of the site and wiki aside to discuss and showcase Free Software alternatives for my fellow professional translators.
Useful software:
- OmegaT is a Free/open source, cross-platform CAT tool, and, in all truth, one of the most used applications on my desk (only superceded by my web browser).
- Anaphraseus is another Free/open source CAT tool.
- OpenOffice.org is a complete office software suite, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, html/web page editor, drawing tools, database front end, and more. Basically, it does everything other popular office suites do, and more, and it's Free and fully cross-platform.
- TuxTrans - a full featured GNU/Linux
LiveDVD and distribution customized for translators, based on Ubuntu Linux, with a full Gnome desktop environment, and thousands of software packages available, including OpenOffice, OmegaT, and other software useful for translators. Tuxtrans can be run as a "LiveDVD", meaning, if you have a DVD drive, of course, you can place the DVD in the drive, reboot the computer, and run the system, experiment with the tools therein, etc., without installing it on your computer. Once you've satisfied your curiosity, you can close down the system and return to your current system, without having made any alterations thereto. The TuxTrans DVD does, of course, also offer the option to install TuxTrans on your computer, if you wish to do so.
- Bitext2TMX - text alignment software (for creating translation memories from legacy translations).
- LinguasOS - another gnu/linux livecd and distribution designed for translators, smaller than TuxTrans (fits on one CDRom, rather than a whole DVD).
- TransProCalc - Translation project management tool by tonybaldwin
- For Windows users who would like to experiment with a variety of free software without installing linux or altering their current system, there is USBTrans, a collection of free software for translators that can be placed on a USB key and run without further installation.
- TransTools - a suite of tools for use with MSOffice® programs. While MSOffice®, of course, is not free software, these tools, at the very least, are.
FREE Open Source CAT software for Real Professionals: omegat.org.
Resources:
Terminology:
What is Free Software? - the Free Software definition.
cross platform: functions with more than one computer platform or operating system. When I say "full cross-platform", in general, it means the software runs on GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows & Mac.
tonybaldwin March 11, 2010, at 03:14 PM
