Language Interface Packages

These Language Interface Packages are available for use with the TNT products, including the FREE TNTlite.

If your language or dialect is not listed, you may want to contact MicroImages for information on the benefits of becoming the official TNT translator for your language.

A kit will customize all these aspects of a TNT product for direct use in your language.

• INTERFACE: all windows, dialog boxes, advisories, error messages, ...

• DATABASES: use string/text fields in your attribute/database tables, ...

• TEXT EDITING: supports mixed languages in a single line, right-to-left entry, conjunctive and cursive language forms, multilevel diacritical marks above/below characters, ...

• MAP PRODUCTS: publish printed or electronic maps with captions, legends, annotations, labels, ...

• MIXING LANGUAGES: change between several languages from the menu

• KEYBOARD ENTRY: uses standard Windows and Mac entry forms and keyboard layouts

MicroImages has worked for many years to adapt the TNT products so that they can operate just as though they were originally created in your language. It is our belief that full native language operation is both technically and psychologically important to expanding the use of geospatial analysis tools among those whose primary language is not English. Thus, TNTlite is provided FREE with the appropriate language kit for use in teaching geospatial analysis to students and professionals who may not know English and have no particular reason to learn it. Technicians who use the TNT professional products to prepare large geodata sets for use in local institutional or business settings often do not know English. And perhaps most important, the general public, who is often the final user of a geospatial product such as a map, atlas, or web site, must be served in their language.

All current language kits are included with the TNT products distribution.  You can also download new and updated language packages from http://www.microimages.com/i18n/locales/.

(1) First select a font that supports your language.  Select Support / Setup / Fonts... from the TNT menu. The Interface Font List Selection dialog shows the fonts that you have installed on your computer's operating system. When you select a font from the list, a sample of the font shows in the sample pane. Click the [Add] button to add the selected font to the Fonts to Use list. The TNT products support any 2-byte Unicode font

(2) Install the TNT locale by selecting Support / Setup / Preferences from the TNT menu. Select the Locale tab in the General System Preferences dialog. Click the [Language ...] button to open the Language dialog, which lists the TNT locales installed on your system. Scroll the list to the language you want and click [OK] to close the Language... dialog.

The change of language does not take place until you exit the TNT products and start a new session

The TNT products, including TNTlite, come with several 100s of pages of on-line, context-sensitive help; a color illustrated on-line reference manual of over 2500 pages; and 1400 pages of tutorial booklets with over 3300 color illustrations. All of these materials are adjusted for each new release of the TNT products, which takes place on a 4 month cycle. We apologize, but with some exceptions, it is not possible to keep such a massive amount of material current and retranslate it from English at 4 month intervals. Should you have questions during the use of a TNT product including TNTlite, and cannot use these English language reference materials, please request help from MicroImages in English or from your local dealer in your language.

MicroImages dealers have translated documentation and selected portions of the English reference materials for the TNT products into other languages. Some translated materials are available here on the MicroImages web site.  You may also contact the following dealers for information on how to obtain their materials.

JAPANESE: OpenGIS has translated a portion of the Getting Started tutorial booklets.

SPANISH: Several tutorial booklets are available for downloading from microimages.com.

8 May 2008

page update: 24 Aug 07

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