The Alchemy project environment is a highly visual workspace that allows Project Managers, Engineers, Testers and Translators work with many file types. At the core is a highly efficient Translation Memory technology that provides accurate and precise re-use of previously translated materials. In addition to this it contains Alchemy 'Expert technologies' to help automate many of the manual tasks inherent within the localization workflow.

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Project Navigator

 

The Project Navigator pane displays the content of the project in an organized, hierarchical list. When a software application is inserted into a project for example, its individual components such as menus, dialogs, strings and bitmaps are displayed in the Project Navigator. These individual components are referred to as project items.

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Project Workspace

 

The Project Workspace pane is where the project items are displayed by Alchemy CATALYST. The Project Workspace can be displayed in String View Mode, WYSIWYG View Mode, Split-Horizontal View Mode, Split-Vertical View Mode and Statistics View Mode. Most of the manual localization engineering tasks such as layout and resizing are performed in this pane.

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Translator Toolbar

 

The Translator Toolbar pane is where the items displayed in the Project Navigator and Project Workspace panes are actually translated.

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Reference Pane

 

This pane is used to display suggested translations and glossary terms. Please refer to Using Active Translation Memories and Using Glossaries for more information on how to configure this pane.

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Concordance Pane

 

The Concordance pane is used to display the results of concordance searching on Active Translation Memories.

 

Basic steps for translating a project

 

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The basics of the program can learned by watching demonstrations of commonly performed tasks. The video tutorials demonstrate how to create and pre-translate projects, generate project reports, validate projects and generate localized versions of projects. Click here to go to online video tutorials.