| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Poll: Does your main CAT tool have "too many features"? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
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Mine has no features at all. I don't use it!
| | | | | It doesn't bother me! | May 22, 2023 |
I only use the features that I need.
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| Many, but not too many | May 22, 2023 |
My CAT (Déjà Vu X3) has features that I never use, but that doesn't bother me at all.
| | | | | Trados has too many features | May 22, 2023 |
I'm confident I'll never get to use all of them. And this feature overload is probably part of what makes it buggy. But I still use it; to be fair, it's not been too mean to me lately. My workflow is predominantly Trados-based, so I only switch to memoQ with really big documents that Trados cannot handle; switching between the two every time creates an additional risk of not being able to export an output file because of some unknown error that may or may not be fixable through QA
[Edited... See more I'm confident I'll never get to use all of them. And this feature overload is probably part of what makes it buggy. But I still use it; to be fair, it's not been too mean to me lately. My workflow is predominantly Trados-based, so I only switch to memoQ with really big documents that Trados cannot handle; switching between the two every time creates an additional risk of not being able to export an output file because of some unknown error that may or may not be fixable through QA
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| | | | | Yes, way too many | May 22, 2023 |
Yes - and I use WFC, the simplest of them all.
Studio and Memsource and MemoQ are like jumping into the control room of a spaceship. The steering wheel may be self-explanatory, but the rest… And all I want to do is pop to the corner shop for 20 Benson’s and a copy of The Sun.
| | | | Anna Herbst 
Australia
Local time: 07:14
English to Swedish
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Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 00:14
English to Russian
Denis Fesik wrote:
And this feature overload is probably part of what makes it buggy. Several years ago SDL removed just one redundant feature that upgraded TMs. They didn't even removed it completely, but simply made it a plugin. Since that time, users keep complaining about it even though it relieved the load on Trados.
I don't see any problem with this. You can choose to disable an existing feature, but you can't choose to enable a lacking feature. For example, I disabled upLIFT, no big deal.
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:14
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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No, but what does sadden me is that my main CAT tool has a development cycle that regularly flushes less used features from itself, in order to remain "lean and mean". Unfortunately, the developer decides which features are deemed unnecessary or "hardly ever used" and sometimes those features are exactly ones that I use... which means that I can either upgrade to a version that is better and faster and more compatible with modern computers, but which has only newer features, or I can stick to a... See more No, but what does sadden me is that my main CAT tool has a development cycle that regularly flushes less used features from itself, in order to remain "lean and mean". Unfortunately, the developer decides which features are deemed unnecessary or "hardly ever used" and sometimes those features are exactly ones that I use... which means that I can either upgrade to a version that is better and faster and more compatible with modern computers, but which has only newer features, or I can stick to an old version. So far, I've been choosing the latter, and am currently using a version that's nearly a decade old (though my license allows me to use the most recent version, should I choose to). Wordfast Classic. Size on disk: 5 MB. Features removed over the years in order to stay under 5 MB: countless.
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| | | | Nikolay Novitskiy
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:14
Member (2018)
English to Russian
It still can't make my favorite covfefe.
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| | | | Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
| Mmm, covfefe! | May 22, 2023 |
Nikolay Novitskiy wrote:
It still can't make my favorite covfefe.
I love covfefe. I always put them on my toast every morning.
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MollyRose
United States
Local time: 16:14
English to Spanish
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| memoQ missing a feature I always used in Trados | May 22, 2023 |
In Trados, my coworker and I would send packages to each other to review. Whenever I opened a package, I could see "track changes" to show the difference between their translation and my TM (as well as whatever changes we make during our review, which memoQ also does). This is missing in memoQ, so even though it was a 100% match from something we had translated and reviewed before, we cannot tell at a glance if the translator made changes. So we have to read the whole target segment and compare... See more In Trados, my coworker and I would send packages to each other to review. Whenever I opened a package, I could see "track changes" to show the difference between their translation and my TM (as well as whatever changes we make during our review, which memoQ also does). This is missing in memoQ, so even though it was a 100% match from something we had translated and reviewed before, we cannot tell at a glance if the translator made changes. So we have to read the whole target segment and compare it with the previous TM to see if they kept it the same or made some change, so we could decide if the change was ok or not. I got the idea of the translator locking the unchanged 98-101% matches, but that didn't help at all.
The only thing memoQ does that helps a little is, you can set it to show IF there is a difference by adding highlighted color to the target. But that only happens if the source is exactly the same. Sometimes it highlights when there are no apparent changes, too, so we still waste time reading it again.
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| | | | | With your talent and knowledge | May 22, 2023 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
No, but what does sadden me is that my main CAT tool has a development cycle that regularly flushes less used features from itself, in order to remain "lean and mean".
Why not fork Anaphreseus?
| | | | | Two features that I absolutely don’t need | May 22, 2023 |
Hans Lenting wrote:
I only use the features that I need.
Are TM Town integration and Total Recall.
TM Town is really a weird duck.
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