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Swordfish Translation Editor 1.0

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Swordfish is a cross-platform CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard published by OASIS.

Swordfish supports TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools, published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association).

Swordfish 1.0 is finally available! Try it on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux and buy a license in our Online Store.

Supported File Formats

The file formats currently supported by Swordfish are:

General documentation types Software development types
  • Abiword
  • Adobe InDesign Interchange
  • HTML
  • Microsoft Office 2007
  • MIF (Maker Interchange Format)
  • OpenOffice/StarOffice 1.x and 2.x
  • Plain Text
  • RTF (Rich Text Format)
  • Tagged RTF
  • TTX
  • XML (Generic)
  • XML, with ready to use configuration files for:
    • DITA 1.0 and 1.1
    • DocBook 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
    • SVG
    • Word 2003 ML
    • XHTML
  • JavaScript
  • Java Properties
  • PO (Portable Objects)
  • RC (Windows C/C++ Resources
  • ResX (Windows .NET Resources)

The XLIFF filter for XML supports custom configuration. Users can define conversion rules for almost any XML vocabulary.

Requirements

Java 1.5 or better is required to run Swordfish. Java is available as free download from http://www.java.com .

Supported Platforms

Swordfish can be used in the following operating systems: