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Comparing Wordfast Pro 3 and Heartsome Translation Studio

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Name	Wordfast Pro 3	Heartsome Translation Studio
Review breakdown	(18 reviews)	(3 reviews)
Most helpful review	Quite good, especially for the young translator By Sone-Ngole Alvin Ngole I started with the demo version of this tool and later on bought the licence. It's quite easy to use and has the basic functionalities needed by a young translator. Compared to other CAT tools, there are a lot of improvements to make. It is however worth its price. It is a good entry level tool for those new to the translation industry, especially its demo version. Unlike other cat tools, you can import and export TMs even with the demo version. The only limitation is the size of the TM. Wordfast still has a long way to go in order to match other CAT tools. You will soon feel the need to buy other CAT tools: Trados which seems to be the most used by agencies, MemoQ which a good number of freelancers enjoy, Deja V, etc. NB: for those living in developing economies (Africa, India, etc.), you don't need to buy Wordfast through Proz TGB. A 50% discount is offered through their website. On TGB, you only have 40% discount, and will wait for weeks for the buy to close. 21 out of 22 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →	very nice features available, but not as efficient to use and support may be spotty By Scott Ellsworth This is a beautiful program, with some very nice features. But ultimately I chose OmegaT over Heartsome, because Heartsome just isn't as efficient to use. pluses: * can filter the editing pane to show only certain types of segments * easy to switch the editing pane between horizontal and vertical relation of source to target segment * can merge and split a segment (I didn’t try this feature out) * can edit the source segment * can display formatting tags at three different levels of detail * numeral consistency check (my sample translations didn’t have figures in them, so I couldn’t test this feature) minuses: * technical support is iffy: I sent a note to support through the website, and never received any reply. Later their support staff just happened to send me a “How’s it going?” email, and in my reply I included the full text of my support request. They were then very helpful in addressing all issues, albeit with a time-zone delay since they’re located in East Asia. Perhaps regular email is the way to contact them. the process of starting up a new project seems long to me, though this is a little hard for me to quantify or explain * it failed to import my tmx file — though technical support examined my file, declared it was a glitch in their program, and said they would resolve it * I found the various segment statuses confusing, as well as the icons used to denote them (the program and the documentation don’t fully explain what the icons mean) * the program creates a rather complex folder hierarchy, and it can be hard to find the translation memories and glossaries to select them in the program, and to find the target file (except by opening it from within the program) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →
Product description	THE #1 TRANSLATION MEMORY SOFTWARE FOR ANY PLATFORM Wordfast Pro (WFP) is a standalone, multiplatform TM tool designed to change the landscape for every stakeholder in the translation process, from project manager to freelance translator	Heartsome Translation Studio 8.0 to be released soon! Continues to be the only truly cross-platform computer-aided translation tool -- Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and Unix. Integrated project management functions, supports powerful drag-and-drop and batch operations, and helps streamline project management tasks. New and redesigned filters, support Adobe FrameMaker 7/8/9/10 MIF, Adobe InDesign IDML, SDL TRADOS XLIFF, DejaVu XLIFF filters and completely redesigned Microsoft Office 2007/2010, HTML and SDL TRADOS TagEditor (.ttx) file filters make translation content conversion to Heartsome XLIFF more accurate. Innovative Pre-stored MT, supports both Google Translate API v2 and Bing Translator, and is pioneering machine translation storage as a TM in the Heartsome XLIFF file. More flexible QA function, you can automatically set Heartsome Translation Studio 8.0 to perform QA while confirming or approving translations. You can also manually perform QA against single files, multiple files or the whole project. Heartsome XLIFF files can be exported to RTF files for proofreading and can be updated while importing the edited RTF files. Increased database and cloud database support, your team members or freelancers around the world can easily share TMs and Termbases. Flexible license management, activate or deactivate licenses yourself online without the need to contact customer service. Enhanced terminology consistency functionality, and quick translation.
Price	€400	Free versions and versions starting at €208.00
File formats	MS Word MS Excel MS Powerpoint HTML XML ASP/JSP/Java INX (InDesign) MIF (FrameMaker TTX PDF	RTF, HTML, XML, DITA, Plain Text, PO, RC/ResX, FrameMaker MIF, SVG, Open Document (OpenOffice.org 2.x) and OpenOffice.org 1.x, Office 2003/2007 XML formats, Trados TTX and Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 INX
License type	3-year license	Perpetual
Operating system	Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.4 and higher	Linux, Windows, MacOS
System requirements	No data	No data
Compatibility	No data	Integrates open language technology standards:XLIFF, TMX, TBX, SRX
Support and upgrades offered/included	Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription	Check with manufacturer
Support and tutorial links	No data	No data
Free trial	No data	No data
Languages supported	Wordfast Pro supports any language that is supported by Microsoft Word. This includes Eastern European, Cyrillic, Asian, Right-to-Left, and various other languages.	No data

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