QA Distiller features

What automated quality control can do for you

What's new in version 8

  • XLIFF support
    XLIFF files are now fully supported, including SDL, memoQ and WorldServer namespaces.

  • New X-Editor
    Open and correct any TMX or XLIFF file in the internal X-Editor.

  • On-the-fly search in X-Editor
    You can now perform direct searches in the X-Editor.

  • Default locale for language codes without country code
    Language codes without country code can be automatically matched with a default locale.

  • Process multilingual batches
    Only inconsistencies between matching language pairs will be checked.

  • Character set and language rules added
    Latest additions are Galician, Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu and Klingon.

Read the on-line help

Supported checks

Omissions Empty translations, (partially) forgotten translations, skipped translations, incomplete translations
Inconsistencies Translation inconsistencies, source language inconsistencies
Language independent formatting Spacing, punctuation, brackets, tab characters,
capitalisation
Language dependent formatting Corrupt characters, spacing, number values, number formatting, quotation marks, measurement system
Terminology Usage, consistency
Regular expressions Fully customisable checks

Supported languages and formats

Languages QA Distiller fully supports all languages via UNICODE character set support
File formats TRADOStag documents (TTX), FrameMaker RTF (STF), Translation Memory eXchange (TMX), XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF)
Dictionaries Proprietary format (DICT), Term Base eXchange (TBX)

Project settings

The default configuration can be customised in numerous ways. You can adapt the user interface to suit your own preferences and easily change the settings for each language or project. You can also share or exchange these project specific settings with other users.

Preventing false error messages

QA Distiller contains extensive options for reducing the number of false error messages. You can build generic or language specific exception lists to ensure that certain strings are ignored when running QA checks. Additionally, regular expressions can be used to make sure QA Distiller ignores or checks certain pattern matches.