Glossary Converter

Glossary Converter

By Gerhard Kordmann

Free

Description

Glossary Converter allows to convert between MultiTerm Termbases and other terminology formats. It supports sdltb, xdt+xml (MultiTerm Export) , xls, xlsx, csv, txt, utx, glo, bgl (read only) and tmx (V2 and V3).

It aims to preserve all information, but it does not guarantee lossless roundtrips between different file formats. For example history fields are only supported in sdltb, spreadsheets and tmx, and some features of sdltb termbases, like marking fields as mandatory, are not supported.

Once installed, you will find Glossary Converter as a desktop shortcut. It will then open up as a stand alone app outside of Trados Studio.

Technical details

6.4.9138.36048 - Trados Studio (2024, 2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

Changelog:

  • Quick select mode for output format: try Ctrl-Alt-O or Ctrl+Click on the "out" tile
  • Custom sort order for fields/languages-
  • Language selection dialog shows tooltip for truncated languages
  • When running in command line mode, fewer dialogs are displayed, and performance improves a little.
  • General streamlining saves a Megabyte of disk space and a few milliseconds of loading time. Not much left to optimise :-)
  • Fix: Crash with several languages when importing in Trados Studio. Reported for Bosnian, Hungarian, and Nynorsk (Norway). Probably some others failed, too.
  • Fix: If the start up coordinates of the main window were invalid, e.g. when changing between different screen setups, the converter would be "displayed" outside the screen and be invisible.
  • Fix: When using "group & hide fields", ungrouping was expanding to the left of the group, not the right. This affected MS Excel, Libre Office was OK
  • Fix: Errors in hyperlink detection when converting to sdltb
  • Fix: Conversion BeGlobalEts -> Multiterm crashed (not a very common operation, I guess :-)
  • Fix: Selection for bilingual format listed unavailable target languages

Checksum: 99a29d82b2a184cbe25c79d97c194e8f25dbfc3a6533e35edd3efbbe7aa0f824

Release date: 2025-02-10

6.4.8992 - Trados Studio 2024

Changelog:

  • Fix: When "MultiTerm termbase" was the output format, and it was activated in the performance settings, conversion worked. But when closing and reopening the converter, an error message about an unsupported format popped up, and the output formats was reset to xlsx
  • Fix: Loading a settings file that was created on a computer with a different Windows language could crash the converter
  • Fix: duplicate lines in a localisation file caused the converter to freeze, rather than reporting the error
  • Fix: the hover help, started with the [?] button, stopped working when switching settings pages
  • Fix: the format display in the main window did not always react to settings changes
  • Hover help now also works for disabled items


Checksum: 3d709f4e8f8a9d9f4b9b9b1f7619512c5266f806ff64116e1ad9749867658ce5

Release date: 2024-08-15

6.4.8977 - Trados Studio (2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

Changelog:

  • updated to support Studio 2024

Checksum: 89a4126042ed5f084d6e44b823baf1b9e3ee8b63966afb7b3796d1f1f8e66899

Release date: 2024-07-30

Support website: https://cerebus.de/glossaryconverter/help/Quickstart.html

Support e-mail: glossary@cerebus.de

Shared products:

Trados Studio (2024, 2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

6.4.9138.36048

  • Quick select mode for output format: try Ctrl-Alt-O or Ctrl+Click on the "out" tile
  • Custom sort order for fields/languages-
  • Language selection dialog shows tooltip for truncated languages
  • When running in command line mode, fewer dialogs are displayed, and performance improves a little.
  • General streamlining saves a Megabyte of disk space and a few milliseconds of loading time. Not much left to optimise :-)
  • Fix: Crash with several languages when importing in Trados Studio. Reported for Bosnian, Hungarian, and Nynorsk (Norway). Probably some others failed, too.
  • Fix: If the start up coordinates of the main window were invalid, e.g. when changing between different screen setups, the converter would be "displayed" outside the screen and be invisible.
  • Fix: When using "group & hide fields", ungrouping was expanding to the left of the group, not the right. This affected MS Excel, Libre Office was OK
  • Fix: Errors in hyperlink detection when converting to sdltb
  • Fix: Conversion BeGlobalEts -> Multiterm crashed (not a very common operation, I guess :-)
  • Fix: Selection for bilingual format listed unavailable target languages

6.4.8912

  • More robust and useful error logging
  • Localisation finally caught up wit the code again
  • Fix: when creating xlsx files, terms were randomly lost. This only affected.Excel; Libre Office and other tools were fine
  • Fix: xlsx files could have column widths of 0, depending on Windows Region settings (decimal point vs decimal comma)
  • Fix: txt output added an extra blank at the end of each file


Trados Studio 2024

6.4.8992

  • Fix: When "MultiTerm termbase" was the output format, and it was activated in the performance settings, conversion worked. But when closing and reopening the converter, an error message about an unsupported format popped up, and the output formats was reset to xlsx
  • Fix: Loading a settings file that was created on a computer with a different Windows language could crash the converter
  • Fix: duplicate lines in a localisation file caused the converter to freeze, rather than reporting the error
  • Fix: the hover help, started with the [?] button, stopped working when switching settings pages
  • Fix: the format display in the main window did not always react to settings changes
  • Hover help now also works for disabled items


Trados Studio (2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

6.4.8977

  • updated to support Studio 2024

6.3.8789

  • Bilingual output can now be created for any format, e.g to split a en-de-fr termbase into en-de and en-fr glossaries
  • Removed Romanian from the UI language list, massively outdated by now, and no translators
  • Fix: using sdltm format with Studio 2022 SR2 failed
  • Fix: cancelling the fields dialog cold lead to lost fields
  • Fix: cancelling a conversion could leave files locked and require a restart
  • Fix: Clicking on "Add" in the fields dialog could freeze the conversion, depending on Windows screen settings
  • Fix: When specifying an output folder that does not exist and that cannot be created, conversion crashed
  • Fix: Setting the tbx description field to "ignore" caused a crash
  • Fix: robust handling of import entries (tbx and xml) that contain languages without a term group
  • Fix: the donate buttons did not work properly any more



6.3.8704

No related information.

Trados Studio (2022 (SR2), 2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

6.4.8825

  • I had to stop using a 3rd party Excel component, affecting a few features. None of them are critical, I think, but feel free to disagree :-) See Excel Limits for more information.
  •     Hidden sheets/rows/columns are always processed, no ignored
  •     Fast/Large Excel modes are now default, no longer optional
  • Log and warn user if xls output is used for more than 65,534 entries
  • changed the hot keys on the main screen. Alt + I now opens the file dialog for input files and Alt + O the output settings
  • Fix: Fields in TBX were lost. Side effect of another fix in 6.3.8789
  • Fix: Depending on formatting (whitespace) of the source, history fields in TBX may have had their contents overwritten by the defaults
  • Fix: Depending on formatting (whitespace again) about half of tbx input got dropped.
  • Fix: when converting an input file with the extension .xml into xdt/xml output, there was an error about a file already open
  • Fix: intermittent crashes with this error: "The type initializer for 'Sdl.MultiTerm.Tools.GlossaryConverter.Languages.LanguageFinder' threw an exception.
  • Fix: converter could not handle input files that are open in Excel
  • Fix: Error when trying to convert to xls when "large file mode" in excel settings is off


Introduction

Converting term data for 10 years and counting, the converter serves all terminology users, from the translator who wants to convert a simple spreadsheet to a termbase with minimal effort, to the terminology specialist who needs control over the details, and the admin who runs automated maintenance jobs.

Key Features

  • supports 15 file formats
  • supports 4 flavours of spreadsheets
  • supports older Trados versions back to 2009
  • handles huge files, if the format allows it
  • remembers field names and types, to minimise user intervention

Technical Requirements

The converter can be used without any prerequisites, if you only use 3rd party formats. For Trados formats, there are two requirements:

  • to write sdltb termbases, you need Trados or MultiTerm 2009 or later
  • to read or write sdltm files, you need Trados 2017 or later

Detailed Documentation

For further documentation, consult the help file that is installed with the app, or read the online help.