There are various open source translation tools available. Google for them. The article below explains some of the main ones : http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/16/206232&tid=140
One that was mentioned on an OOo list is linked below (unsure at what stage of development it is) : http://www.eskimo.com/~helary/OmegaT/ I tried using the translation tool in word (2002) and I couldn't get it to translate a phrase or more than a single word. In addition it didn't translate it, it simply gave me the foreign word to then type into the document. I'm probably not doing it correctly anyway but the feature does not seem that useful. I believe that with the variety of dictionaries available for OOo you could achieve something similar with little effort. HTH, /paul On 7/4/05, Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steph Banatte wrote: > > To whom it may concern > > > > I'm using OpenOffice 2.0 with OS Suse 9.3 on my machine and one feature that > > seem to be limited with Open Office is the ability to convert or translate > > document from one Language to Another . For example... I'm trying to > > convert > > Spanish to English and I'm unable to do that.. I have to go too the web... > > Why is that or are you guys planning to update or make the translation > > feature better...I also try to translate from English to French... and I'm > > unable to do this on Open Office... thanks > > > > Steph: > > Let's put a few things in perspective. > > First, the "you guys" that you are addressing is only a community of > users like you. Some with more experience, some with less, but users > just the same. We all gather around to help each other out. > > Second, keep in mind how much you have paid to acquire one of the finest > applications of its type that is available. You act as if you have paid > Gatesian prices and feel like you were cheated. > > Finally, you can also contribute by going to > http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html. There you > can register, login, and submit a Request For Enhancement (RFE) which is > just another form of Issue. That way your concern will be placed in > front of the developers and it can be acted upon. Until you do that, > your only hope that an issue will be submitted is if your problem is > also a problem for someone else who will do what is necessary to file > the report. > > Regards, > Doug > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
