Swordfish

An advanced CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF Standard that supports MS Office, DITA, HTML and other document formats.

Swordfish uses TM (Translation Memory) and MT (Machine Translation). Supports segment filtering, terminology, customization and more.

Swordfish Running on macOS

Licenses

Swordfish is available in two modes:

Source Code
Yearly Subscriptions for installers and support

Source Code

Source code of Swordfish 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

The version of Swordfish included in the official installers from Maxprograms Download Page can be used at no cost for 30 days requesting a free Evaluation Key.

Personal Subscription Keys are available in Maxprograms Online Store. Subscription Keys cannot be shared or transferred to different machines.

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
Restricted Features	None	None
Technical Support	Peer support at Groups.io	- Direct email at tech@maxprograms.com - Peer support at Groups.io

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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/
TypeScript 5.6.3 or newer, get it from https://www.typescriptlang.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 Swordfish

Steps for building

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

This video shows how to build and launch Swordfish: https://www.maxprograms.com/tutorials/SwordfishIV_build.mp4

Compile once and then simply run npm start to start Swordfish