Swordfish Translation Editor

Making Open Standards Work

The advanced CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators.

Swordfish supports exchanging 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 Features

Swordfish has a rich feature set, including:

Broad range of supported file formats

Flexible Licensing

Compatible with other CAT tools

Excellent Support

In-Context Exact Matches

Fully Configurable

Complete Segment Filtering

Comfortable Proof Reading

Advanced Translation Engines

Multiple TM and Terminology Databases

Extensible via plugins

And More...

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Features Details

Broad range of 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
  • Trados TTX
  • TXML (Wordfast PRO)
  • 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)
  • .ts (Qt Linguist Translation Source)
  • RC (C/C++ Resources
  • ResX (.NET Resources)

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

Flexible Licensing

Swordfish licenses are affordable and portable. Licenses can be transferred from one computer to another in seconds. Buy one license and use it in the computer you have at hand. A Swordfish license can be used in any operating system where Swordfish runs.

Compatible with other CAT tools

Swordfish supports the most common formats used for exchanging translations:

  • XLIFF: Supported natively. Accepts version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2
  • Tagged (uncleaned) RTF: Accepts uncleaned RTF produced by other applications and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files.
  • TTX: Seamlessly converts Trados TTX files to XLIFF and back. Swordfish has built-in capabilities for segmenting TTX files.
  • TXML: full round trip (TXML-> XLIFF -> TXML) of Wordfast PRO files.
Excellent Support

Good technical support is an essential part of any software product. At Maxprograms we are proud of our support service. In fact, the quality of our support service is one of our strongest selling points.

Visit our Support page and check the support options we provide.

In-Context Exact Matches

Easily reuse translations by importing them from previously translated XLIFF files. Swordish extracts translations for individual segments, considering previous and following ones as context.

Fully Configurable

With Swordfish you are free to customize your translation environment. You can, for example, set your preferences for:

  • Fonts and colors
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • External file viewers
  • Language Codes
  • Segmentation Rules
  • Conversion rules for XML files
  • Custom XML catalogs
Complete Segment Filtering

Swordfish lets translators hide/show segments filtering on multiple status options, like: is translatable, has translation, has comments, is approved, etc.

Comfortable Proof Reading

Swordfish generates HTML views from XLIFF files that lets translators/reviewers proof read comfortably in the system's default web browser. The generated HTML can be customized by end users, adjusting the provided XSL stylesheets.

Advanced Translation Engines

Swordfish includes two translation engines: a "traditional" TM (Translation Memory) system that provides exceptional matching and Auto-Translation, an exclusive technology that assembles matches from regular TM databases and Terminology databases.

Google's Machine Translation engine is available to Swordfish users via the included GTranslate plugin.

Multiple TM and Terminology Databases

Swordfish includes an Internal database server based on HSQL database engine, adequate for small databases. It also includes integrated support for Oracle 10g, MySQL 5.x and Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 for storing unlimited amounts of TM data.

You can use any number of TM and Terminology databases simultaneously in Swordfish. Additionally, you can assign custom penalties to each TM database.

Extensible via plugins

Swordfish has a powerful plugin architecture that lets users process individual segments or complete XLIFF documents with external applications.