QA Distiller: New Version

A new version of QA Distiller was released by Yamagata Europe last month. The translation QA tool is very useful for large documentation checking, particularly when dealing with user manuals. You will find QA Distiller particularly interesting if you want to ensure coherence and consistency over many publications. A free (so far) alternative is Apsic's XBench, with our review here. The new features are

Automatic software updates
Batch processing from command line
Full results log file
Match rate displayed in error list
Checks for hard spaces
Support for TMX user fields
Support for TBX term status
Improved regular expression syntax
Better font handling in TTX files
Improved stability TMX editor

Although QA Distiller is a very good tool, we find that it can provide too many false positives in comparison to XBench. This leads to more checking time of strings that is not necessarily productive. Both tools provide great features and can include preferred terminology and positive and negative checks in order to customize the type of quality control checks.

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Carla Estefanía

06/11/08