Glossary Converter

Glossary Converter

By Gerhard Kordmann

Free

Description

Glossary Converter allows to convert between MultiTerm Termbases and other terminology formats by simple drag and drop, with minimal user interaction. 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 of the more complex field types of tbx and sdltb are not preserved.


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

6.4.8992 - 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/index.html

Support e-mail:

Shared products:

6.4.8992 - Trados Studio 2024

  • 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



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

  • updated to support Studio 2024

6.4.8912 - Trados Studio (2024, 2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

  • 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



6.4.8825 - Trados Studio (2022 (SR2), 2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

  • 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



6.3.8789 - Trados Studio (2022, 2021), SDL Trados Studio (2019, 2017, 2015)

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

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