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Name	Transit NXT Professional+	CafeTran Espresso
Review breakdown	(7 reviews)	(20 reviews)
Most helpful review	Once Top of the Bill By Hans Lenting I've used Transit for about 15 years. I was once enthusiastic about it, now I think that Transit is no longer up to today's standards. This tool has always been very expensive to buy. The file format filters are of high quality, but additional filters are expensive too. Other CAT tools offer these additional filters (FrameMaker MIF etc.) for free! The learning curve is quite steep. The documentation is great. Transit only supports XLIFF in *one* direction (import), which is quite unacceptable. It missis out on smart editing features like automatic case adaption during Find and Replace, auto-assembling etc. It's not possible to select the whole content of one segment (without defining a macro first) and to perform operations on that selection (like case toggling). The Access or MS SQL databases that are used to store terminology, respond slow when more than about 500,000 entries are stored. Importing terminology can take a long time. Support is quite expensive and doesn't always provide a solution. Transit's tag handling is a real disaster. There are so many tags, many of them grouped, which makes it even harder to insert/move them. It's a dull task to insert the necessary tags. You have to be a keyboard magician, using all kinds of keyboard shortcuts. By default, you have to overwrite the target text, instead of starting to type in an empty segment. You really have to like that (or not). Personally, I let my Transit rest in a Virtual Machine and use another tool to process all Transit project files. One that lets me focus on the text at hand, instead on tags. 13 out of 13 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →	Great new features with each new build By Selcuk Akyuz Just in a few words, it is different. CafeTran's developer is not only a programmer but he is a translator as well, that is why he adds all those unique features helping translators. One pays EUR 225 only to upgrade from SDL Trados Studio 2009 Freelance to 2011 version but you can buy CafeTran at only EUR 80. Amazing! Just read the features at http://cafetran.wikidot.com/ 33 out of 37 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →
Product description	Transit NXT is the next generation of STAR's translation memory system. This new version will offer an optimized solution to make your translation teams even more productive. Translation Memory in Context: What Makes Transit Different? The sentence is the basic unit of language. However it is not necessarily the basic unit of meaning. Translators read sentences in the source text, but are only able to do a good job of translating them if they are able to derive and understand their meaning from the context. This is a principle which was taken into account in the first version of Transit, over 20 years ago. In contrast to other translation memory systems, Transit does away with a database which is exclusively sentence based; instead the full breadth of the context contained in a document remains available in the Transit reference material.	Welcome to CafeTran Espresso -- the feature-rich CAT tool that is fun to use! Whether you are an experienced user of the big-name CAT tools, or a translator getting ready to use a CAT tool for the first time, please consider CafeTran Espresso. This powerful tool was built lovingly, from the ground up, by a person who is both a developer and a translator himself. It is packed with creative and useful features that not only help you to work faster, but also make your job more fun. CafeTran also boasts a passionate user community, and an attentive developer, that help each other with support at all hours of the day. With this tool, you are never alone! Free to download and run, up to 1000 translation units, CafeTran Espresso works on Windows, Macs and Linux machines. Why not download and give it a try right now? Main features Cross-platform translation environment (Mac-Windows-Linux) Stand-alone (no Ms Office required) Based on open standards XLIFF and TMX Very fast using RAM for translation memories Uses as many translation memories as you like Handles lots of file formats Integrates Internet resources and machine translation (Google and Bing) Spell checker and thesaurus (requires free OpenOffice/LibreOffice) Autowriter completes and suggests words on-the-fly based on activated memories Handles formatting tags easily Alternative clipboard workflow to translate unsupported formats Creates translation memories from existing translations (Documents alignment) Segments and terms mangement in a preferred SQL database Network memory server for remote or team work Software localization - Java, Mac and .NET
Price	Options include 3, 6, 12 month and perpetual options starting at €240	€200
File formats	No data	Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, LibreOffice, InDesign, Framemaker, AutoCAD, XLIFF, TMX, subtitles, images and more.
License type	Perpetual	Perpetual
Operating system	Windows	MacOS, Linux, Windows
System requirements	200 MHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 MB Hard drive & 1280 x 1024 SVGA Graphics card	Minimum 2 GB RAM or 4 GB RAM for larger project and translation memories
Compatibility	Transit NXT product brief	Support for multilanguage translation memories (TMX format)
Support and upgrades offered/included	Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription	Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription, Installation support, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support
Support and tutorial links	No data	CafeTran Support and Knowledge Base
Free trial	No data	Up to 1000 memory units and 500 glossary entries
Languages supported	Transit NXT product brief	All major languages

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