Alignment

Dear All! 

 

It is my first time to post a message here.

I hope someone who is familiar with SDL Trados Studio 2015 (Freelance) could help reply to my question.

In fact, I would like to align two documents (source and target) in order to creat a translation memory. 
 
When importing both documents, the aligment association do not well asociate two sides. 
 
This is why I have to modify it segment by segment. When it has 500 segments, that's a big waste of time.  
 
This is why, I am looking for another solution to make this go more quickly with an automatique match more efficient.
 
I have noticed that one segment in the source text will automatically match two segments in the target document. 
 
And normally if there is a space in the same ligne of the text, SDL wil consider it as a segment.
 
This is why for normally one segment can be divided into 5 or more segment when using alignment function. 
 
As the consequence, I need to copy and paste these text to make maximum 3 segments, then match them by hand because it is not possible to match one segment (source) with more than 3 segments (target).
 
I have a lot of documents to aligne to create a TM. And I think that if have another method to do so, it will save me from spending weeks to do it. 
 
I wonder someone could help me resolve this problem? 
 
I have already talked with you SDL support staff by online chat, but he has no solution. 
 
Thank you in advance for your help. 
 
 
Kind Regards, 
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  • Hi Pawinee,

    There are some tricks you can use to help the alignment process by disconnecting everything, and then running through the files confirming alignment in random places as you go through the file. Finally you run the realign which is often much improved after going through this process. You can find a video showing this process in this article:

    multifarious.filkin.com/.../

    However, if your problem is related to needing to align more than three segments to one throughout the file then you might be better off trying a different solution that offers more flexibility. If the files are older word files then you might be able to use the old WinAlign that is still available to you in this location:

    c:\Program Files (x86)\SDL International\T2007\TT\WinAlign.exe

    Alternatively I could recommend a very good free alignment tool called LF Aligner which you can find here:

    sourceforge.net/.../

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • Hi Pawinee,

    There are some tricks you can use to help the alignment process by disconnecting everything, and then running through the files confirming alignment in random places as you go through the file. Finally you run the realign which is often much improved after going through this process. You can find a video showing this process in this article:

    multifarious.filkin.com/.../

    However, if your problem is related to needing to align more than three segments to one throughout the file then you might be better off trying a different solution that offers more flexibility. If the files are older word files then you might be able to use the old WinAlign that is still available to you in this location:

    c:\Program Files (x86)\SDL International\T2007\TT\WinAlign.exe

    Alternatively I could recommend a very good free alignment tool called LF Aligner which you can find here:

    sourceforge.net/.../

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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