When a user of SDL Trados Studio 2017 is required to do a translation, which can then be further processed by a user of SDL Trados 2007 or SDLX 2007, he/she will have to proceed in the following way:

• Pre-process the native file in SDL Trados 2007, e.g. by opening it in TagEditor and by saving it as TTX (TradosTag)
• Open the resulting TTX file(s) in SDL Trados Studio 2017. While the TTX or ITD files are processed in SDL Trados Studio 2017, they are saved in the intermediary format used by SDL Trados Studio 2017 just like any other (native) file (e.g. in SDL XLIFF).

If you proceed as described above, you can generate a TTX/ITD document from the intermediary format (e.g. SDL XLIFF). Alternatively, you can also generate the original native format (e.g. DOC). When the user selects the Save Target As command a dialog box opens which lets users decide whether to save the file as TTX/ITD (for further processing in SDL Trados 2007 or SDLX 2007) or whether the original file format should be generated.

When you process a TTX (or ITD) file in SDL Trados Studio 2017, you have a choice between generating a TTX or the original document format. The latter requires you to have the original document (e.g. DOC) in the same folder as the TTX file. The reason for this is that TTX uses the original document as dependency file, which is not embedded in the TTX document itself.