Nowadays, with the great advances in communications, developers can sell their software products to consumers from all the world. Nevertheless, in many cases, this can be prevented by the language barrier. Lingobit Localizer is a program that lets you localize your software, work with translators, and manage your localization processes easily.
The program has a wizard that will walk you through the project creation process. First, you need to select the file you want to localize. This can be an .exe file, a .dll, or any file that can be opened with Windows' notepad. Then, you can select the source and target languages. It is important to note that the program does not actually translate the file, but only shows you automatically the resources available to translate. Thus, you will need to have a good knowledge of both the source and target languages, or work with professional translators.
The program also eases the process of working with translators by allowing you to set the elements you want to be translated, add comments, and estimate the translation amount. You can also send a translation kit to a translator, and receive and apply his/her translation to your program.
In general, the program is easy to use, and there are flash tutorials you can use to learn more. Nevertheless, it is only for specialized users and not for the casual ones, as implied by the cost of the program. You can choose among three different versions of the program: Standard, Professional, or Enterprise, each with a different price tag.
You can use the shareware version during 90 days. If you find the program useful and intend to use it longer, then you will need to purchase a license that, as I've said, is rather costly.
v7.1 [Jan 28, 2011]
Lingobit Localizer 7.1
- New formats
--Apple XIB
--Custom text-based
--Custom XML-based
--Help & Manual .HMXP
--RDL
--XAML
--XML Schema
--Blackberry
--eRuby
--PHP
--ASP
--XSD
--PO files (for GNU gettext toolset)
--Segmentation for HTML and CHM
- HTML
--HTML source preview
--HTML status coloring in browser preview
--HTML parser customization
--Validation
- New validation options
--Force validation for translator
--Validation added
--Custom validation
--String length
--Html tags
- A lot of WPF localization settings are added
--Property filtering
--Category filtering
--Parsing of unreadable and unmodifiable items
- XML
--Parse XML comments
--Key-value model using XPath
--Key Filter
--Custom XML formats
- Parse .INI file comments
- All Translations panel that displays translations to all languages.
- Icons translation for .NET
- Command Line Edition
- Translator Edition is made easier to use
- .NET 4.0 support is added
- Synchronize navigation command is added
- Signing of .NET assemblies with password
- Microsoft Bing Translator is supported
- TRADOS Workbench is supported
- Parse and preview embedded resources in PE, .NET and Delphi
- Command line interface for exchanging projects with translators
