| FEATURES |
WORDFAST |
WORKBENCH |
SDLX |
| Price |
Free |
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
applications |
No. You'll be running 2 separate
applications. |
| 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 Excel™ |
Yes |
No |
Needs a conversion to tab-delimited
and lose formatting |
| Translate directly from PowerPoint™ |
Yes |
Thru another programme |
Yes |
| Translate directly from Access™ |
Yes |
No |
No |
| User-friendly TM format |
Yes:Ms-Word™/Ms-Excel™
etc compatible |
No |
Yes |
| Footprint |
340 Kb zip, manual included. Easy download,
installs in 3 seconds. |
Stone-age bloatware with books and
discs: pollute the air and cut trees |
CD-ROM, or download 10 Mbytes |
| 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 |
No |
Yes |
| Comparison based on Wordfast 3.34
and Trados Translator's Workbench 3.
|
