What is Atlantida
Atlantida is an open source (GPL)
multilingual dictionary written in Java.
It can translate words from one language to another and pronounce them.
As of version alpha 0.15, Atlantida uses XDXF
dictionary format.
How to install and run Atlantida
1) Make sure you have Java Runtime Environment Version 5.0 Update 6 or newer installed
on your computer.
That is when you type java -version at the command line it should
print: java version "1.5.0_06"
You can download JRE from
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp or
http://java.sun.com
2) Download text dictionaries from XDXF Repository and uncompress them into a folder of your choice.
3) Download sound dictionary data file sounds.tar.bz2 and uncompress it into the same folder where you have uncompressed the text dictionaries, so that the folder tree would look something like this:
my-dictionaries |- sounds | |- a | |- b | - ... | |- eng-rus_muller | |- dict.xdxf | - icon16.png | |- Webster_1913 | |- dict.xdxf | - icon16.png |- ...
4) Download Atlantida program from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/atla
Look into "atla" package for "atlaXX.jar" file, and download it into the folder where you keep
all your program files or some other folder of your choice.
5) Open the command line window and switch into the folder where you have put the jar file, and run it: java -Xmx500M -jar atlaXX.jar
When you run Atlantida for the first time, it will ask you for the folder where you have put the dictionary files, and it will create configuration and index files in ~/.atla folder. For the first run and each time you add or remove a dictionary, Atlantida will re-generate the index files, which takes a lot of memory. That's why you need -Xmx500M option - without it you will get OutOfMemoryError while indexing large dictionaries.
Feel free to ask questions and give suggestions at the forum.
This page was last updated on 2006-03-05