How To Translate PRTG 7 Into Other Languages

This article describes the process of creating new language files required to run PRTG in other languages.

Overview

For each translation a .lng file must be created. This file contains about 5000 strings which are used by PRTG to render the user interface. Paessler supplies a translation tool at the download link below.

Preparations

• Download and install the current version of PRTG Network Monitor as well as the PRTG Translation Tool (see link below).
• Locate PRTG’s language subfolder in the installation folder, default is
  C:\Program Files\PRTG Network Monitor\language\
• copy the english.lng to a new directory (e.g. C:\users\yourname\translation).
• Duplicate english.lng and rename it to mylanguage.lng (of course you can use “italian.lng”, ”czech.lng”, or whatever your language is called).
• Please note that both your new mylanguage.lng file as well as the file english.lng are required in this folder.
• Start the PRTG Translation Tool and open mylanguage.lng.
• Before you do anything else, go to Edit|Edit language info and change the language info to your settings:
  • Enter a two character id string for your language , e.g. it for Italian.
  • Enter the name of your language as you want it to appear in the language selection box of PRTG’s admin programs.
  • Enter the code page that is used for the display of web pages, e.g. windows-1252 for West European languages, or shift-jis for Japanese.
  • Enter the code page number the PRTG Translation Tool shall use for the proper display of your language, e.g. 932 for Japanese. 0 uses the system’s code page. For West European languages you can leave it at that.
  • Enter two file names of fonts PRTG shall use for its graphs that are capable of displaying the characters of your language, e.g. msgothic.ttc for Chinese, Japanese etc. For West European languages you can leave these fields empty.
• Save and close the PRTG Translation Tool (to ensure that the code page settings are really active the next time the program is started).

Translation Work

(Please see PRTG Translation Tool’s quick reference guide for all possibilities)

• Start the PRTG Translation Tool (it automatically opens the last file, so very probably the correct language file will be loaded – if not, please do so manually in the file menu)
• Enter your translation for each string in the “translation” column. If you have translated a string, uncheck the “new” flag by either clicking on it or pressing the F5 key.
• Save often! Also copy your language file to a different directory, appending numbers to the filename so you get different backup versions of your file. We have tested the PRTG Translation Tool very thoroughly and found that it works as expected, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry.
• You can sort the strings by clicking on the column headers. You can filter new, old (= already translated), equal (=English and Translation strings are identical), or different strings in the Filter menu. You can copy & paste using Ctrl C and Ctrl V.
• Save your file and close the PRTG Translation Tool. Copy mylanguage.lng to the language folder of your PRTG installation.
• Start the PRTG Server Admin and select your language from the dropdown list and close the admin tool. This will restart the PRTG Core service.
• Enjoy PRTG in your language.

Updates of the Software

There may be new or changed strings whenever updates for PRTG Network Monitor are released. As soon as a new version of PRTG is available and installed, simply copy the latest english.lng file to your translation directory, overwriting the old version of english.lng. Start the PRTG Translation Tool - all new and changed strings will be flagged as new and can easily be filtered for a convenient translation of only the new strings.

Downloads

The software can be downloaded here:

• PRTG Network Monitor download:
  http://www.paessler.com/prtg/download
• Translation Tool download:
  http://download.paessler.com/download/prtg7translationtool.zip

Applies to PRTG Network Monitor V7.x