Selecting TM and Documents to Align

To align one pair of documents and review the alignment result in the Alignment view, specify:

the translation memory (TM) where you want to send the translation units that result from the alignment
the source and the target document that will generate the alignment result file

Select TM for the alignment results

In the Welcome or Translation Memories view, click Home tab > Align Documents > Align Single File Pair. Studio opens the Align Documents dialog box.
Choose the TM you want to use for the alignment results:

- click Create to use a new TM.
- click Add to use an existing TM.

Specify the type of TM to use:

- click File-based Translation Memory to select a TM that you have stored on your computer.
- click Server-based Translation Memory to select a TM stored on a TM Server.

NOTE

If your selected server-based TM contains multiple language pairs, Studio enables the Next button on the Align Documents dialog box. After you specify your source and target files, click Next to go to the Select Language Pair page. Here you can choose the language pair that matches the languages of the documents you want tot align.

Optionally, click Settings to edit translation memory settings such as custom fields, language resources, access rights and performance.

By default, Studio tags each translation unit generated from the alignment with three custom fields: Quality, Source File and Target File. The Quality field shows how confident Studio is that the source and target segment are aligned correctly. The quality score is calculated based on the internal alignment algorithm which considers linguistic and contextual dependencies between the source and target segments in the document. Click here for more information on the Alignment quality value. The Source and Target File fields show the location of the documents that generated the translation unit.

Select the documents to align

Click Browse under the Source File box and select the required source file.
Click Browse under the Target File box and select the file that you want to map to the previously selected source file.
Click Finish to start the automatic alignment and open the result in the Alignment view. By default, Studio generates an alignment result file (*.sdlalign) from the two documents and names it [name of the source file]_[name of the target file]. The file is saved in the Alignment Results folder under and add it to %UserProfile%/My Documents/Studio 2014

After you selected the TM for the alignment results and the documents to align, click Finish to start aligning the pair of files. Studio then opens the alignment result file (*.sdlalign) in the Alignment view. Here you can edit the connections and the segment content or open the alignment file in the Editor view for extra editing or QA checks.