Stingray Document Aligner

Stingray is a document aligner designed to assist professional translators in the production of translation memories from existing translated material.

Translation memories in TMX or TAB delimited format generated by Stingray can be used in most modern CAT (Computer Aided Translation) programs, including Swordfish.

TAB delimited files created by Stingray can be opened in Microsoft Excel or Apple Numbers without special configurations.

Align Two Word Files

Licenses

Stingray is available in two modes:

Source Code
Yearly Subscriptions for installers and support

Source Code

Source code of is free. Anyone can download the source code, compile, modify and use it at no cost in compliance with the accompanying license terms.

You can subscribe to Maxprograms Support at Groups.io and request peer assistance for the source code version there.

Subscriptions

Ready to use installers and technical support for Stingray are available as yearly subscriptions at Maxprograms Online Store.

The version of Stingray included in the official installers from Stingray's Home Page can be used at no cost for 7 days requesting a free Evaluation Key.

Subscription Keys cannot be shared or transferred to a different machine.

Subscription version includes unlimited email support at tech@maxprograms.com

Differences sumary

Differences	Source Code	Subscription Based
Ready To Use Installers	No	Yes
Notarized macOS launcher	No	Yes
Signed launcher and installer for Windows	No	Yes
Associate app with `.algn` extension	No	Yes
Restricted Features	None	None
Technical Support	Peer support at Groups.io	- Direct email at tech@maxprograms.com - Peer support at Groups.io

Requirements

JDK 21 or newer is required for compiling and building. Get it from Adoptium.
Apache Ant 1.10.14 or newer. Get it from https://ant.apache.org/
Node.js 20.16.0 LTS or newer. Get it from https://nodejs.org/

Building

Checkout this repository.
Point your JAVA_HOME environment variable to JDK 21
Run ant to compile the Java code
Run npm install to download and install NodeJS dependencies
Run npm start to launch Stingray

Steps for building

  git clone https://github.com/rmraya/Stingray.git
  cd Stingray
  ant
  npm install
  npm start

Compile once and then simply run npm start to start Stingray