ABBYY Aligner

ABBYY Aligner licence limits the amount of data you can export into TMX and RTF. The amount is calculated in lines* (often called Translation Units).

When you choose to export your aligned data to TMX or RTF, ABBYY Aligner calculates the number of lines in the aligned text and subtracts it from the total number of lines which the licence allows you to export. Once you have used up you line limit, export to TMX and RTF is impossible.

Counting notes:

• Saving a project is not the same as exporting aligned data
  When you save your aligned text as an *.ata project, this does not affect the line counter.
• Lines with empty cells count
  If ABBYY Aligner fails to find a matching fragment for either a source text fragment or a translation text fragment, it will leave the corresponding cell empty. Lines with empty cells are numbered in the same way as bilingual lines with text in both cells, and are subtracted from the line counter.
• Lines you obtain when adjusting the results count
  Before exporting the alignment results to Traslation Memory database or RTF file, you can adjust them by splitting and merging lines and editing the text. This may either add new lines to the alignment or remove some lines. When you export the alignment data, the program calculates the total number of lines, no matter how they were obtained — the lines created by the program and the lines created by the user will all be counted.
• Exporting the same results more than once
  If you export the same alignment results several times, the program will calculate the number of lines (and decrement the counter) each time you export the data.

_{*The term “line” in ABBYY Aligner is used to mean a Translation Unit - an element of aligned parallel text which consists of a fragment of a source text paired with the matching fragment of the translation text.}