Overview: Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0

In today’s global economy, international organizations are required to deliver products and services in multiple languages if they are to achieve the maximum possible market penetration. The successful launch of global products and services requires precise coordination of key internal and external resources and the need for a dependable quality translation process.

A growing need to reduce costs, to shorten time-to-market, and to meet the language requirements of a diverse customer-base adds to the complexity of being a successful player in today’s global marketplace.

Alchemy PUBLISHER meets these challenges head-on! With a highly intuitive and easy-to-use project environment - coupled with an advanced Translation Memory technology - international organizations can deliver higher quality translations while dramatically reducing costs and project-cycle times.

Advanced Translation Memory Solution

The power of Alchemy PUBLISHER lies in its unique ability to use an advanced Translation Memory technology to store previously translated content. Because digital content such as web sites, help systems and technical publications are often repetitive the use of Alchemy PUBLISHER ensures that no sentence needs to be translated twice. In fact, use of this TM technology can reduce translation costs by as much as 70%!

Alchemy PUBLISHER uses object-oriented Translation Memory technology. This differs substantially from text-based TM products. Alchemy PUBLISHER’s powerful Translation Memory not only stores text segments for re-use but also a document’s layout, formatting, graphics and contextual information. This guarantees not only near-perfect translations re-use, but significant savings in the post-translation Desktop Publishing (DTP) and Quality Assurance (QA) testing.

Integrated Project Environment

Alchemy PUBLISHER supports over 100 of the most widely used file and document types, ensuring that the end-user has a single, easy-to-use solution for all translation requirements. Furthermore, Alchemy PUBLISHER supports translation re-use from virtually all industry Translation Memories, thus providing a vendor-agnostic solution to all translation needs.

Features

Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 helps translators achieve higher levels of quality and productivity than any other TM solution. With a highly intuitive project environment, powerful features such as predictive type, machine translation and language quality checking are all integrated in a single solution that handles hundreds of file and documents types.

Customer Benefits

Today’s global economy places unique demands on international business. Companies must deliver their products and services in multiple languages to reach the widest possible market. Global product and service launches involve precise coordination of internal and external resources, simultaneous deployments around the globe, and require flawless translation quality.

Alchemy PUBLISHER delivers these and more to successful global organizations:-

• Translate Quicker: Beat your competitor to that vital window of sales opportunity. Get your product launched on a global scale, quicker, cheaper and to the highest quality standard.
  
  
• Translate More: Don’t let translation volume be an obstacle to market growth. Create new revenue opportunities by investing in a solution that meets the challenges of volume and cost, while guaranteeing a ROI.
  
  
• Translate Easier: Professional Translators can focus on the precision and accuracy of their translations using Alchemy PUBLISHER’s unique and easy-to-use project environment. With support for over 100 file formats, it’s a single solution for all of their translation requirements.
  
  
• Translate Better: Reduce the risk of bad quality translations. Use Alchemy PUBLISHER’s integrated quality assurance features such as spell checkers, the Validation Expert and Glossary Consistency checker to ensure that the translations are done right first time, in real-time, every time!
  
  
• Translate Smarter: The advanced Translation Memory of Alchemy PUBLISHER allows you to not only re-use translations, but also a document’s layout and graphical content. That’s double the benefit of limited, text-based TMs!

What's New

Alchemy PUBLISHER is enhanced in all areas to provide improvements in languages supported, performance, productivity, usability, standards support and greater functionality with Microsoft Office Products (MS Word, MS EXCEL and MS PowerPoint), Adobe formats (InDesign, FrameMaker) and online help technologies.

Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0, an advanced TM for documentation provides:

NEW Process Multiple Files: Alchemy PUBLISHER projects (PPFs) can now contain multiple files so that clients can aggregate files of many types into a single, easy to handle project file. Using Alchemy PUBLISHER 3.0 it is now easy to manage multi-lingual projects by connecting it to Alchemy LANGUAGE EXCHANGE 3.0. This enables LSPs to centralize the storage of translations into a single high performance server based TM and share this amongst their teams of professional translators.

ENHANCED Single solution for hundreds of file formats: Alchemy PUBLISHER supports over 100+ different file formats ensuring that you have a scalable and reliable solution for any file type your clients needs to translate. New formats included are:-

• Adobe PDF – We listened and we delivered. Many of our clients get PDF files to translate, now these can be handled directly by Alchemy PUBLISHER.
• Adobe InDesign CS3/CS4 – A quickly emerging standard for high end publications. Now you can process InDesign (INX) natively and avoid the conversion process of CopyFlow.
• MS PowerPoint – Work directly with MS PowerPoint ( ppt and pptx) files. You can see a real time preview of each slide as you translate it and ensure that you deliver the highest possible quality to your client.
• Adobe FrameMaker 8.0 and 9.0 – Work with MIF and FM files directly depending on your needs. You select which mechanism best supports your localization process. For example, if you using structured frame or your documents contains lost of conditional sections you may decide that MIF translation is better than working directly on the FM documents.
• Adobe Robohelp 8.0 – Alchemy PUBLISHER now supports the new RoboHelp custom tag formats making it easier than ever to work on large compiled (CHM) or directly with xHTML help files.
  

ENHANCED Online Help Localization Solution: Struggling to manage thousands of individual online help files? Struggle no more! Building on the success of its visual HTML environment, Alchemy PUBLISHER fully supports the visual localization, engineering and testing of compiled online help systems. Our visual solution processes compiled help files directly so you can avoid the complexity of handling thousand of individual help files, streamlining your help localization process and reaching markets quicker. Additionally, Alchemy PUBLISHER now supports the new custom tags for Adobe RoboHelp.

NEW Centre of Productivity for Professional Translators: Alchemy PUBLISHER includes a highly interactive Translator Toolbar that helps professional translators work faster, with higher accuracy and improved project turnarounds. The Translator Toolbar defines a standard for translator environments and also includes web-based connections to Machine Translation engines such as Goggle and PROMT. Learn more...

Alchemy PUBLISHER now incorporates advanced TAG management and detection ensuring that tags are positioned correctly during a TM re-use and Translate operation.

The Translator Toolbar also includes Auto-Validation. This checks the translation as it’s typed ensuring that it’s consistent with your glossary and does not contain any other translation errors.

ENHANCED Analysis Expert: Calculate the number of segment matches between project PPFs and Translations memories, count unique and repetition words and determine how many fuzzy matches can be re-used. The Analysis Expert works with all industry standard TMs (Alchemy Language Exchange, GlobalLink, Wordfast, TXML, TRADOS TMW, SDL TM Server, TTK, TMX, XLIFF, TXT) to determine how you can maximize the re-use of previous translations and reduce your cost of translation further!

NEW Keywords: A Keyword is a word or phrase that is to be locked within a translation segment, excluded from word count analysis reporting and protected from accidental translation. This helps reduce the incidents of over translation and helps fine-tune word count analysis to include only those words that need to be translated. Learn more...

NEW Language Consistency Checker: Alchemy PUBLISHER can automatically detect inconsistent translations and help professional translators resolve these quickly and easily. Designed as a new type of Project filter it can detect situations where source segments are translated differently or when target translations are identical but source segments are different. This is an essential tool for organizations that need to achieve the highest possible level of translations consistency in their projects. Learn more...

NEW Machine Translation: Experience the power of 2! Combine the accuracy of TM with the flexibility and speed of Machine Translation all in a single highly interactive project environment. Source segments that cannot be located in a TM can be automatically sent to a web based Machine Translation service (MT) so that a translator always gets a translation suggestion while working. It's also easy to route requests to in-house MT solutions, presenting professional translators with another powerful tool to reduce project turnaround times and reduce project costs.

NEW Complete open standards support: Increased compatibility, no matter what the format, including XLIFF, TBX, XML, TMX, GlobalLink, TXML, Wordfast (Server and Desktop TMs) and all TRADOS desktop and server-based TM technologies.

NEW Increase Translator Productivity: ezType(TM) is predictive text tailored for the professional translator. It helps accelerate typing speed by monitoring the keyboard and auto-completing words and glossary suggestions during translation. Tightly integrated into the Translator Toolbar it is an essential productivity tool for any translation project!

NEW Conditional and Multi-lingual XML Support: Alchemy ezParse technology has been extensively redesigned to support multi-lingual and conditional-based XML documents. This makes is easier to work with content coming from CRM systems and to identify only that content that needs to be translated. As with all ezParse solutions, you create these new parsers in a highly visual development environment so you avoid writing the code yourself, Alchemy PUBLISHER does all the hard work for you! Learn more...

NEW Translation Propagation: One of the most exciting features of Alchemy PUBLISHER is its ability to automatically detected previous translations of segments from within an open project file. This self-referential lookup ensures that higher levels of consistency and translation quality are achieved by professional translators.

NEW The New Terminology Standard: TBX is rapidly becoming the standard for term-base sharing and lookups. Alchemy PUBLISHER embraces this new standard and displays suggested terms within the Translator Toolbar. Additionally, it now supports a Supplementary Glossary that a translator can use to store their own glossary terms.

NEW Alchemy LANGUAGE EXCHANGE Interface: Alchemy PUBLISHER is fully integrated with Alchemy LANGUAGE EXCHANGE 3.0, helping clients centralize their valuable translation memory assets and control access to them during a localization project.

NEW Thumbnail Navigation: Navigate large projects using an intuitive and easy-to-use visual project navigator. This presents the contents of a Project PPF as thumbnail images that can be viewed quickly and easily. Simply click on the thumbnail of the web page, PowerPoint slide or winform and Alchemy PUBLISHER will locate it automatically. Learn more...

Resources

Welcome to the online lessons for Alchemy PUBLISHER, an advanced Translation Memory for documentation. These lessons are designed to make you and your localization team highly productive using Alchemy PUBLISHER in as little time as possible. The lessons are designed to cover some of the basic features of our technology and then some of the more advanced features.

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Quick Start Tutorials

About Alchemy PUBLISHER Learn all about the Alchemy PUBLISHER project environment. Learn what each window pane is used for and how to see TM fuzzy matches and Glossary suggestions.
Using Analysis Expert to determine the scope of a project Learn how to use the Alchemy Analysis Expert to create a fuzzy-match report of a project. Use this information to determine the cost and schedule of a translation project.
Pre-translate your projects using Translation Memories Pre-translate your projects before dispatching them for translation! This maximizes the re-use of existing translations and reduces both the cost and schedule of a project.
Check your project for linguistic errors Use the Validate Expert to check your project for cosmetic and linguistic errors. Automatically detect and fix translations quickly and easily for your clients.
Consolidate your translation to a single, powerful desktop TM Use the Alchemy Clean Up Expert to consolidate all your translations into single, powerful desktop or server TM.

Other Tutorials

• Alchemy PUBLISHER Project Environment
• What is a PUBLISHER Project File(PPF)?
• Analyze your files and create project proposals
• Work quickly with inline tags
• Using the PowerTranslate toolbar to access your TMs
• What is a TM?
• Using Machine Translation Services