New Features!
Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 is enhanced in all areas to provide improvements in languages covered, performance, productivity, usability, standards support and greater functionality with the next generation of TRADOS enterprise product technologies.
Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 provides more than 120 enhancements over Alchemy CATALYST 5.0 and provides a truly visual environment for the localization and engineering of digital content and Microsoft desktop, internet and mobile applications. This page describes the most important improvements and assumes you are already familiar with previous versions of Alchemy CATALYST.
Only Alchemy CATALYST 6.0, the world's first Total Visual Localization(TM) solution, provides you with:
- NEW! Productivity Enhancements Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 sees major changes in the user interface which drives more productivity for translators, engineers and testers. As an example, translators can quickly determine how consistent translation is by using the Language Consistency checker. This ensures that translation is consistent with any active glossary or TM across all files within a Project TTK (Translator Tool Kit). Less testing and engineering is now required for digital content files since these are now worked-on in true visual editors.
- NEW! Visual HTML Solution Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 provides a fully visual solution for the translation, engineering and testing of HTML document (and all derivatives). Working in a true WYSIWYG environment, translating HTML pages has never been so easy!
- NEW! Microsoft .NET 1.x Solution Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 now supports all Microsoft .NET platform technologies, including Microsoft Framework 1.x and ASP+ derivative content files. This makes it the only complete .NET solution on the market today!
- NEW! Microsoft .NET 2.0 Ready! Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 is also certified and ready for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 Enterprise Architect.
- NEW! Complete open standards support Increased compatibility, no matter what the format, including XLIFF, XML, TMX and all TRADOS desktop and enterprise technologies.
- NEW! Full Support for all Unicode Languages Unicode support in Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 has been enhanced significantly. All Unicode language combination are now supported as both source and target translations. For example, it is now possible to translate from Japanese into Chinese from within the same project TTK. Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 now supports over 120+ language combinations all from within the one environment.
- NEW! Total TRADOS Integration Work seamlessly with past, present and future versions of TRADOS desktop and enterprise technologies such as TRADOS TM Server, TRADOS Translator's Workbench (3.x, 5.x, 6.x ) and MultiTerm iX Server. Working in partnership with TRADOS Corporation. Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 is also TRADOS 7.0 ready!
- NEW! Alchemy Concordance Manager™ Research a term and locate its translation quickly using the new Alchemy Corcordance Manager.
- NEW! PowerTranslate™ Technology This is a collection of technological enhancements to Alchemy CATALYST 6.0 which provide a uniquely visual and highly productive environment for professional translators. For example, using Auto-Translate software applications can be fuzzy translated using almost all known TM and glossary formats available today.
- Enhanced! Visual XML Alchemy CATALYST provided the world's first secure XML translation solution and now it's been enhanced to provide a more visual environment for working on these highly complex file formats. You can now assigned locks in ezParse rules and define IDs within XML documents.