wordfast and word 2008 for MAC
claudia
I just installed Office 2008 in my new Mac and find out that there is
no wordfast version for it! What do you recommend? Should I keep the
Office 2004?
Help please!!!
Claudia
Peggy Strachan
It is the other way around Mac Office 2008 does not support visual basics which Wordfast is based on.
So I think Office 2004 is the better choice.
I hope this helps.
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Peggy Strachan
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Consuelo Corretjer Lee
marland
macro facility (which is how WF works) back into Word under OSX
Leopard - then they saw the number of PC swappers and the huge take-up
of Word 2008 (4 times the take-up for 2004) - so now they have
realised their mistake and promised to have it back in the next major
version.
That means you should hang on to 2004 for another two years and then
buy the next version with VBA reincluded.
Frankly, using the PC version of Word on XP under Parallels, there are
so many changes and user-unfriendly features, I am sticking to 2004 on
MAC and 2003 on PC! There will be an XML converter for any files under
the new docx format pretty soon anyway, so who needs the new package?!
I any case the Java version of WordFast will probably be out before
all this happens, in which case it will work on all the major
platforms regardless of MS.
Mike
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 19 juin 08, at 21:29, marland wrote:
> I any case the Java version of WordFast will probably be out before
> all this happens, in which case it will work on all the major
> platforms regardless of MS.
And since we're at it, OmegaT works perfectly well on Mac. Already.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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CLAUDIA FERNANDA ESTEVE GONZALEZ
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Jean-Christophe Helary
Claudia,
OmegaT is currently the only free and still under development CAT tool
on the Mac market. I mean free as in "you are free to use it the way
you want" and well as "you don't have to spend money to get a user
license".
Last time I checked it was downloaded by more than 100 people every
day. The user group on Yahoo has more than 800 members.
I've used it for as long as I remember using a CAT tool.
If you are used to WordFast on Word 2004, then you'll find the
workflow a little different. But the principles stay the same. I wrote
about this on the user group a few weeks ago as a reply to somebody
who inquired about that.
The official page is here:
http://www.omegat.org/
The user group is here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/omegat/
Consuelo Corretjer Lee
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 20 juin 08, at 20:14, Consuelo Corretjer Lee wrote:
> Thanks Jean Christophe and Claudia. I am a Wordfast user and will try
> Omega T.
The user group is highly multilingual. And there are plenty of Spanish
speakers there.
Non-English inquiries are actively encouraged too. :)
marland
friendly package.
Trados/SDLX and Wordfast people find it a bit strange to get used to,
having gone through the long process of getting used to both those
awful interfaces (I have been forced recently to use Trados 2007
instead of SDLX and still tremble every time I carry out the
complicated processes involved!), but OmegaT is much more intuitive
(compare trying to get PC users to realise the Mac interface is really
intuitive!).
The only thing I find awkward is the fact it cannot deal with
Word .doc files directly.
Mike
On Jun 20, 12:42 am, CLAUDIA FERNANDA ESTEVE GONZALEZ
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 20 juin 08, at 22:10, marland wrote:
> The only thing I find awkward is the fact it cannot deal with
> Word .doc files directly.
It is only because MS does not give access to its formats. Since MS
opened its formats with MS 2007 and 2008, OmegaT has been able to
access such files without any problem.
WordFast is a Word macro, so it can access anything in Word, pretty
much.
Trados is partially owned by Microsoft, so it has no problem accessing
MS files, even though it uses RTF in most cases.
SDLX etc works in a similar way.
Except for WordFast, I am not aware of any software package that can
directly deal with MS files.