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Wordfast |
Trados Workbench |
SDLX |
Price |
Very affordable |
Awfully expensive |
Moderately priced. |
Protection mode |
Totally transparent |
Physical dongle.
Pray you don`t lose it. |
Both protection modes, at buyer`s choice |
Quality-check functions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Real-time glossary control |
Yes |
No |
No |
Real-time blacklisted term control |
Yes |
No |
No |
Mac/PC compatibility |
Yes |
No |
Yes, with PC emulator |
Link to external dictionaries |
Yes, any
dictionary, like yours |
Only Multiterm |
No |
Integrated, customizable glossaries |
Yes, 3 glossaries |
Not even one |
Yes, one |
Complete integration with Ms-Word |
Yes |
No. You`ll be running 2 separate apps. |
No. You`ll be running 2 separate apps. |
Network support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Background memory |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Clipboard respect when working |
Yes |
No. Clipboard lost between segments. |
Yes |
Tagged files support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Supports files with jumps & popups |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Translate directly from Ms-Excel |
Yes |
No |
Needs a conversion to tab-delimited and lose formatting |
Translate directly from Ms-PowerPoint |
Yes |
Thru an extension |
Yes |
Translate directly from Ms-Access |
Yes |
No |
No |
User-friendly TM format |
Yes:Ms-Word/Excel etc compatible |
No |
Yes |
Footprint |
500 Kb zip. Easy download, installs in 3 seconds. |
CD-ROM, or endless download |
CD-ROM, or long download |
Link to Machine Translation |
Yes, to virtually any MT package |
No |
Yes, but to their own MT package and you`ll need to buy it. |
Direct HTML translation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |