Comparison Chart between Wordfast and other CAT tools
|
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 |
Comparison based on Wordfast
3.34 and Trados Translator`s Workbench 3.
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