PROMT upgrades entire line of @promt translation products

Major improvements include new translation engine, additional integration capabilities

St.Petersburg, Russia, 6 March 2008 – PROMT, a leading developer of machine translation products and services, has released 8.0 versions of its award-winning @promt product line. Designed to make international communication, research, foreign website browsing, and document translation easier for everyone from home users to large enterprises, the @promt 8.0 product line offers improved translation quality, greater usability, integration with an expanded range of third parties product, including Microsoft Office 2007 applications and OpenOffice, as well as compatibility with Windows Vista.

Both the translation engine at the heart of the @promt product range and the user interface has been completely redesigned in version 8.0. Major improvements include:

• New and more intuitive Office 2007-style user interface
• New translation engine
• Translation Memory System with TMX files import support
• One click addition of new words to user dictionaries
• Creation of user dictionaries from TRADOS databases
• Option to print user dictionaries
• Multilingual interface
• Support for Mozilla Firefox 1.5/2.0
• Integration with ICQ PRO 2003/ICQ 5
• Integration with OpenOffice 2.x
• Integration with Adobe Acrobat 8.0
• RSS feed translation in Internet Explorer
• Support for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats
• Dialect support: English (UK and American), Spanish (Castilian and Latin American), Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian), German (German and Swiss), French (French, Swiss, Belgian, Canadian)

The new features not included in all products.

@promt Personal 8.0 is entry-level translation software that provides fast, comprehensive translation of multilingual documents and web pages. An essential tool for quickly grasping the meaning of the foreign language text, it gives users easy access to foreign language content on the web and in document files; translated web pages retain layout and navigation links for ease of use.

@promt Office 8.0 translator is designed specifically for home and small office use and provides translation of documents, e-mails, and web pages. @promt Office enables users to quickly get the gist of foreign language text, provides instant lookup for individual words and phrases, and integrates directly into Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Acrobat and Open Office Writer.

@promt Professional 8.0 translator is the ideal translation software for everyday business use, automating the translation process for multilingual document exchange and other communications. It handles e-mails, web pages, and documents, offers full integration with Microsoft Office applications, is equipped with a powerful set of customization tools, and includes a Translation Memory option for reuse of previously-made translations.

@promt Expert 8.0 translator is the most advanced translation software system in the range, providing a comprehensive collection of expert translation tools. In addition to all the functions available in @promt Professional, @promt Expert enables translation agencies and multinational enterprises who work extensively with the SDL TRADOS® Translation Memory system to fine-tune their results, along with terminology mining and the automatic creation of topic-specific dictionaries.