![]() ![]() While this list is not as comprehensive as those of tools like Trados Studio ®, memoQ ® or others, it certainly covers the basics. Originally built only for the MadCap-internal Flare (and MadCap Mimic) formats - which still are the formats that it excels in - it now also supports Microsoft ® Word ® and PowerPoint ® files, HTML, FrameMaker ® (both in MIF and FM format as well as whole manuals through the BOOK format), InDesign ®, XLIFF, RESX, DITA and some file formats of other translation environment tools, including Wordfast Pro ® (TXML) and Trados ® (TTX and SDLXLIFF). So what does Lingo actually look like? To put it simply, it’s a highly functional, well designed yet bare-bones translation environment tool. There has been a lot of talk about translation technology being natively integrated into other technologies, and MadCap is a shining example of a company that had the vision and perseverance to just do it. ![]() Finally, in 2007, MadCap released MadCap Lingo, an integrated translation environment tool. So they spent quite a bit of early effort to become more visible to the translation industry, partly by showing up at industry events but also by providing useful features such as full Unicode support, outstanding double-byte support for East Asian languages and support for bidirectional languages. Early on, the folks in charge at MadCap recognized that there was a strong link between the language and technical writing industries (this may have a “duh” effect on most of us, but remember that many in the technical authoring world have yet to make this amazing discovery). ![]() That’s not really something you see too often in the world of software development.Īnd if that’s not endearing enough, this next little bit of information might just win you over. Another testimony that MadCap is a slightly different company can be seen in the bios of the management team (under About Us on MadCap’s website), which reveal that the vast majority was with the company long before Adobe ® ended up purchasing Macromedia ® and RoboHelp ®. ![]()
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