Passolo Pre-processing Tool
For the majority of file types, the Extract Translatable Content step of TMS Pre-processing uses the relevant TMS Pre-processing Tool to extract translatable content from the structure of the file and segment that content for inclusion in a bilingual file for translation. However, since Passolo has already performed these actions, this step does not take place within TMS.
The Passolo Pre-processing Tool is responsible for:
- Extracting the strings to be translated from the Passolo Bundle
- Applying any translation memories from the configured TM Sequence and including any matches found from the strings for the Passolo Bundle
- Determining the word counts of the strings in a Passolo Bundle
- Allocating those word counts to cost bands based on the strings' match percentages
As mentioned above, segments that have a match found in a translation memory are included in the Passolo Bundle as an embedded glossary (*.glo file). These matches are then available to be applied during the linguistic translation phase of the localization workflow using the Passolo Translation Helpers, not by SDL TMS during the Pre-processing step.
Please note that the Passolo Pre-Processing Tool does not support the use of Split Pre-processing-based TMS Workflows for managing Passolo bundles. The single consolidated Pre-processing step must be used.