WinLexic 2005
WinLexic - WinLexic 2005 is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) to Microsoft Glossaries for Technical Translators
and Technical Translation Agencies
Microsoft Glossaries are publicly available from the
Microsoft Corporation FTP Server and its mirrors, and provide a wealth of information for technical
translators and anyone else who would like to be familiar with multilingual terminology used in
Microsoft software products and use it consistently.
Downloading Microsoft Glossaries is
not an easy task. They are large (only Farsi, Arabic, Malay, and Indonesian glossaries are under
1Mb, other 40 glossaries range in size between 1.05 Mb for Galician and 62Mb for Spanish) and
downloading them by standard means (through Microsoft Internet Explorer, for instance) may be a
nuisance.
That
s why this task usually involves purchasing FTP client
software, able to automatically resume broken transfers
But not with WinLexic!
WinLexic already contains built-in FTP client configured to access Microsoft public FTP server or
its mirrors. The FTP client is able to resume transfers. That means approximately USD30 savings for
you plus less hassle about getting glossaries downloaded and interpreted properly!
If you
use NotePad to search through multiple glossaries you can become bored quickly. Even using
Microsoft
Excel to search through them can be a difficult task, especially taking into
account the limitation on the number of rows in Microsoft Excel, which ruthlessly truncates these
glossaries. In addition, with NotePad, Microsoft Excel or other common program you will have to
search through each individual glossary separately.
WinLexic is fast and can search
through multiple Microsoft glossaries at once. In addition it offers a wealth of options
(Source/Target search, whole word search, case-sensitive search, searching for the presence of 2
terms or phrases in a single string).
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