TMX Import

With the Professional and Enterprise edition, it is possible to import a TMX file created by another translation memory such as Trados, Déjà Vu or SDLX as well as by Crystal Translator itself. This function strips any formatting from segments in the TMX file and imports bilingual plain text into the opened TM. You can then benefit from these segments when pre-translating reports, as soon as the report source text matches the source text imported.

To use this function, you first need to open the TM you want to import into. Please ensure that the source language of the TMX file matches the source language of the TM before the import. This function will create the target languages in the TM if they do not already exist.

The Trial edition also allows you to evaluate this function, however, please remember than the Trial edition is limited to one target language. If more than one target language exists in the TMX file, the import will be aborted. The Trial edition does not allow the import of TMX files created by Crystal Translator Professional.

Please notice than importing TMX files with source texts that have very little probability to match the source texts of your reports will slow down the pre-translation. Therefore, we recommend that you only import relevant translations.

To import a TMX file into the opened TM database, do the following:

  1. Go to the menu File\TMX\Import TMX (XML) file...


  2. Browse the location where the TMX file you want to import is located, select it and press "Open"


  3. If the source language of the TMX file does not match the source language of the TM, you will obtain the following dialog box:

    If the source languages are compatible, then press "Yes", else press "No" and open/create a different TM
     
  4. Depending on the size of the TMX file, it may take a few minutes for the import to complete.
    When the import is completed successfully, a confirmation message will appear:

     
  5. If some segments could not be imported, the following message will appear:

    You can then open the log file from the menu Help\About\Open log file to check the import errors such as empty source text...
     
  6. As mentioned in the dialog box above, if the TMX file was created by another software than Crystal Translator, in order for the pre-translation function to re-use the imported segment, the option "Translation from All reports/Text" needs to be selected in the TM.



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