Maxprograms.com - Free Resources for Translators
By Corinne McKay,
ATA-certified French to English translator based in
Boulder,
Colorado, United States
corinne@translatewrite.com
www.translatewrite.com
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 It's
about time that Open Source Update mentioned Rodolfo
Raya's website Maxprograms,
which features five free utilities for translators.
Rodolfo's “day job” is as a developer for Heartsome,
but his tools can be of use to translators using a
variety of CAT tools. All of the programs are cost-free,
and run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. They are:
1.
RTFStyler, a tool that adds Trados-type styles to
an RTF document, to make the document into an uncleaned
Trados-type file. This allows translators to use less
expensive CAT tools such as the XLIFF editor available
from Heartsome, that can insert the Trados-esque tags
before sending the files to a client.
2.
RTFCleaner, as the name would suggest, is the janitorial
counterpart to RTFStyler. This tool, also cross-platform,
removes Trados-type markup tags from translated RTF
files, leaving a clean text file for delivery to the
client.
3.
CSVConverter is a tool to make TMX (Translation Memory
eXchange)-compliant glossaries out of glossaries stored
in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format. These glossaries
are then usable in major CAT tools that are TMX compliant;
as of its new release, this now includes the free
and open source CAT tool OmegaT.
For example CSVConverter can generate TMX-compliant
glossaries from OpenOffice.org Calc or MS Excel files,
or Microsoft Glossaries.
4.
TBXMaker serves the same function as CSVConverter,
but creates glossaries in TBX (TermBase eXchange)
format. Rodolfo adds that TBXMaker was created and
is maintained by his Heartsome colleague Gonzalo Pennino.
5.
TMXValidator is a handy little tool for checking if
your TMX-format translation memory is valid. Some
of us are familiar with HTML validator tools for working
on web pages; for example the HTML validator will
tell you if you forgot the closing tag for any of
your opening tags. TMXValidator checks your TMX files
against TMX's DTD and also the requirements of the
official TMX standards.
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