PROMT Professional 9.0 - Upgrade
Overview
PROMT Professional 9.0 is a business solution with the most flexible capabilities for managing the quality of translation. With PROMT Professional 9.0 you can quickly obtain high-quality translations of documents, Web sites, or emails. You can also create corporate databases of translations of similar documents (for example, contracts or manuals) using the Translation Memory technology.
We recommend PROMT Professional 9.0 for:
- translating documents in the applications of the Microsoft Office 2000–2007 suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), and Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Pro
- translating texts with specialized lexicon (for example, industry-specific terminology)
- translating instant messages in ICQ, Skype, QIP, and MSN Messenger
- translating Web pages in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
New in PROMT Professional 9.0
- translation quality control taken to a new level
- revamped structure of dictionary databases; now broken down into profiles
- vastly simplified setup
- new user interface based on the results of a large-scale usability study
- free online updates of dictionary databases
- automated search for terminology in texts
- translation of messages in ICQ, Skype, QIP, and MSN Messenger
- extended features for working with PDF files
- significantly extended dictionary databases: over 300,000 new entries in all translation directions
- new user’s manual, explaining in great detail how to use our software to approach all possible translation-related tasks
New in all PROMT v9.0 products! The My PROMT personal user area with access to online services of the PROMT translation system, tutorials, and updated PROMT dictionaries.
KEY ADVANTAGES
Ultimate control over the quality of translation
Highly accurate setup of the system for translating specialized texts. Choose a profile and then enable your own dictionaries, specialized dictionaries from the installed PROMT dictionary collections, or Translation Memory databases.
Translation function can be built into the most popular applications.
- Microsoft Office 2000-2007
- OpenOffice.org Writer v. 2–3
- Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 5–8
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5-3.5
- Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader 6–9
- ICQ 2003b, ICQ Lite, ICQ6;
- QIP Infium RC3 (9017);
- Windows Live Messenger v. 8;
- Skype v. 3–4.
Quick and easy translation of PDF files
Translate using PROMT Translator or use built-in translation features and translate directly in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Support for ORFO spellchecking software
Find and correct typos quickly and reliably.
Batch file translation
Save time by translating several files at once
New improved graphical user interface
Before developing our new user interface, we used the results of a large-scale usability study of PROMT products conducted by Usethics in 2008.
Translate only new content. Use Translation Memory for the rest
Create your corporate database of translated texts and save time for subsequent translation of similar documents. The system will automatically translate common sections and terminology (specifications, contract preamble, etc.) by retrieving their translation from Translation Memory databases, according to your corporate standards.
To extend the translating capabilities of the application you can purchase additional
Collections of Specialized PROMT Dictionaries.
FEATURES
Linguistic Editor
PROMT Translator linguistic editor is the heart of the application and allows it to translate texts of any complexity. You can even get a translation without customizing the system: simply add some text to the translation pane and click Translate. The goal of such basic translation is to help you get the gist of the source text and decide whether you need to work further with it. Because of the new algorithms and vastly expanded dictionaries (we have added over 300,000 new entries), PROMT v9.0 offers high-quality translation even in this basic mode. For more difficult tasks, such as translating specialized texts, the system offers an extremely flexible setup. You have complete control over all translation settings: choose profiles, enable dictionaries—built-in or additional dictionaries from the installed PROMT collections, and Translation Memory databases. Setting up PROMT Professional 9.0 is very easy and does not take much time.
Translating documents in the Microsoft Office Suite 2000–2007 and Adobe applications
PROMT Professional 9.0 supports translation in the popular office suites, such as Microsoft Office 2000–2007 (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) and Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Pro. After installing PROMT Professional 9.0, the PROMT Translator tool will be added to the toolbar in these applications.
Working with terminology and specialized lexicons
PROMT Professional 9.0 offers extensive options for working with technical and other highly specialized texts. The high accuracy of translation is achieved via very flexible settings, which you can fine-tune to work with your chosen profile:
- Using built-in dictionaries
- Enabling additional dictionaries (user created dictionaries or dictionaries that are parts of the PROMT Dictionary Collections)
- Creating and enabling Translation Memory databases for translating similar documents and terminology, according to your corporate standards
- Automated extracting and translating of terminology
Translating messages in ICQ, Skype, QIP, and MSN Messenger
Instant messengers have proven their efficiency in a business when a quick communications are imperative, when talking with your international partners, coworkers, and clients, for example. It would be daunting and frustrating, however, to discuss the details of a project with your partner overseas if you had to look up every other word. PROMT Professional 9.0 breaks barriers to efficient communication thanks to the feature that enables translation of instant messages in ICQ, Skype, QIP, and MSN Messenger. Depending on your settings, you can translate messages in a separate window or directly in your current chat window. This feature is now available in the four most popular instant messengers. In addition to ICQ in v8.5, in v9.0 we have included support for Skype, QIP, and MSN Messenger.
Translating Web pages in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Quick translation of analytical articles by international experts, news from all over the world, and quick familiarization with information from foreign-language sources—these are just a few tasks that PROMT Professional 9.0 can handle, with translation options that can be built into the most popular browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. You only need to select the translation direction and profile, as well as what you want to translate—the selected portion of a Web page or a Web page in its entirety. The original text formating will be preserved in the translation along with all the URLs on the page.
Saving translation results
The translation made by PROMT Translator can be edited and saved to an RTF or TXT file.
Translating OpenOffice Writer documents
PROMT Professional 9.0 also installs a translation plugin for OpenOffice Writer, a popular open-source application.
Creating your own dictionaries
To guarantee maximum accuracy in translating terminology in highly specialized and technical texts, it is best to use additional dictionaries. With PROMT Professional 9.0 you can create your own dictionaries to use with our system. A user can choose one of the two modes for editing dictionaries: Simple (with the dictionary displayed as a table, where you can add a new term and its translation), and Advanced (intended for users with a more sophisticated linguistic background), which offers a number of additional features.
Using online dictionaries
You can use additional translations of a word or phrase by enabling online word databases (such as Multitran, for example). You can immediately add translations from these databases to your user dictionary and use them at any time.
Creating Translation Memory databases
You can store translated texts in the Translation Memory database and retrieve them later without retranslating. This is especially relevant for similar documents that contain identical portions of text (contract, technical and legal documentation, manuals, etc.)
My PROMT. Your personal user area
A personal user area with access to your personalized services and resources of PROMT Professional 9.0 becomes available after you register your PROMT product. Use My PROMT to:
- Access additional tutorials on PROMT Professional 9.0
- Stay current with updates for PROMT Professional 9.0 and PROMT dictionaries
- Take part in polls and send feedback that will help us improve future versions of PROMT products
- Access technical support and ask questions about your PROMT product.
My PROMT is the latest addition to the PROMT system. We believe it has a great future. For news about further development of this service, as well as news about all the applications of the PROMT suite, please go to My PROMT and click “New in PROMT Systems.”
To extend the basic capabilities of the application, you can purchase additional collections of PROMT Specialized Dictionaries.
System requirements for PROMT Professional 9.0
- 500 MHz Pentium processor or better
- at least 64 MB or RAM
- SVGA or better video card and monitor
- an optical drive
- a mouse or similar input device
- operating system:
— Microsoft Windows 7
— Microsoft Windows Vista
— Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or higher
— Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
- .NET Framework 3.0 (installed automatically).