Swordfish Translation Editor

Swordfish Translation Editor

Stable release	5.9.0 / December 8, 2024; 20 days ago (2024-12-08)
Type	Computer-assisted translation
License	Open Source (Eclipse Public License)
Website	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.^[1][2] It stores translation memory in an internal database and can export it in the standard TMX format; import is also possible.^[3] A server, RemoteTM, can be used instead of the internal database if sharing is needed.

It supports the following localization industry standards:

• Unicode
• XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format)
• TMX (Translation Memory eXchange)
• SRX (Segmentation Rules eXchange)
• PO (Portable Object)
• TBX (TermBase eXchange)

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

• Translation memory
• Computer-assisted Translation
• DeepL
• vidby

References

1. "Swordfish Translation Editor". GitHub. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
2. "Swordfish II". Jessica Gomez and Joshua Ortiz. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
3. Philippa Hammond (4 March 2011). "3-minute review of Swordfish II CAT tool". Blogging Translator. Retrieved 21 February 2012.

External links

• Product Page