Trados does that automatically for you and even offers to reopen files afterwards. If it’s not, you’ll need to close the error message, click the Wordfast tab, go back to the editor interface, close the file, then go back to the project interface and finally be able to run your analysis. Need to run an analysis on a file? Make sure it’s closed first. You want to switch from a project to another? You’ll need to close the former one first (which does… nothing at all besides wasting your time). Every single action is tedious and far more complicated than it should be. The interface is a disasterīesides the general slowness of its functionalities, Wordfast also suffers from a catastrophic interface.
#Wordfast pro 4 full
The result was almost instant with Trados (as in too fast to be timed), while Wordfast needed a full 6 seconds. No regular expressions or anything complex, just a good old plain text search. Still in the 20k word project mentioned above, I compared how fast Trados and WFP4 could find a string located towards the end of the chained file, with the cursor placed in the first segment. That’s 59 times slower than SDL’s product.Įven such a thing as the “Find” feature seems to take ages. Wordfast 6… minutes! OK, not quite, 5 minutes and 54 seconds (yes, I timed it). Shouldn’t take very long, right? Trados needed 6 seconds to do that.
The next thing I tried to do was to run a file analysis with an empty TM. So that’s more than twice the time for WFP4, but it’s nothing compared to some of the other features. The same process took only 12 seconds in Trados. It took it 27 seconds to chain the files and present me with the result. The original files were in Wordfast’s txlf format, but I’ve been using them in Trados thanks to the xliff filter.įile opening is where Wordfast seemed to suffer the least. Now, what about processing speed? I ran a small experiment on a 20k project I was working on. Some web-based solutions like Memcloud Cloud have shown that’s it’s possible to have a fast and clean-looking app online, and not something that reminds me of the cheap and buggy shareware of the early 00’s. I understand they’re trying to push their online version of the tool, but it doesn’t excuse the unresponsiveness. Really, Wordfast Pro 4 actually uses a browser plugin to render its interface, so the combination is the same, and the experience is very comparable.
You know, those web apps that took forever to load with the coffee cup icon – and barely faster after that? It’s exactly the same thing.
#Wordfast pro 4 software
When you open a piece of software and see a bunch of Java threads show up in your task manager, you know you’re in for a bad day.
How disappointed was I to find out that the software had completely changed, in a terrible, terrible way. So when news broke that Wordfast Pro 4 was out, I was curious to see where improvements were made. Take Trados, it’s far less buggy than it used to be, much faster at processing files and its plugins add tons of useful features. *Translations.Although CAT tools love making us upset in various ways, you have to admit they’re generally getting better with time. Remote Glossary Sharing via Wordfast Anywhere and Wordfast Serverįor more information on Wordfast Pro, please visit.
#Wordfast pro 4 upgrade
Support for an ever growing list of file formats – DOC, XLS, PPT, RTF, HTML, XML, ASP, JSP, INX, MIF, PDF, and TTXīatch process up to 20 files simultaneously with lightning speed (for even greater batch processing capabilities, upgrade to Wordfast Pro Plus)įlexibility to use multiple remote and local TMs and glossariesĪbility to customize your view (table and text mode) and personalize your shortcut key library Multi-platform compatibility – Windows, Mac, and Linux With greater support for numerous file formats and powerful batch processing functionality, Wordfast Pro changes the TM landscape for every stakeholder in the translation process, from project manager to individual translator.Ĭustomers who purchase Wordfast Pro benefit from: Get all of the benefits you've come to expect from Wordfast products, including speed and ease of use, in a stand-alone, platform-independent editing environment.
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