File Types

If you are just getting started, and you are translating files that Studio supports, you can use Studio straight away to translate your files — you do not need to change any Studio file type options. However, if you want to translate files of an unsupported file type, or if you want to improve translation leverage, or if you just want to make translation easier for the files that you have, it might be useful to browse through the file type settings to see how you can change the way that Studio processes files.

File type (sometimes called filetype) is a term used to highlight the difference between the types of data held in different files. Examples of file types are program executable files, Microsoft Word documents and MP3 files. Studio supports a number of file types. For these, supported, files, Studio can extract the translatable text from the file so that you can translate it. Conversely, if you try to open a file of an unsupported type, Studio displays an error message.

Examples of settings specified by the file type options are:
  • How Studio identifies the type of the presented file, for example, what file name extensions are used for files of that type.
  • How Studio identifies which part of the file contents should be translated and what content should not be translated. For example, the options specify what content in the file is structural information and so is not translated.

Supported file types

Supported File Types

Managing file types

Finding the Right File Type Settings

Why the Order of the File Types List is Important

About Identifying File Type by Name

Creating a File Type

Exporting and Importing File Type Settings

Importing File Type Settings from Studio 2009

Settings common to multiple file types

Font Mapping Page

QuickInsert Page

Tag Check Page

File types

non-XML files

Character Delimited Text Settings
  • Example - Structuring a Character Delimited Text File

Excel 2000-2003 Settings

Excel 2007-2010 Settings

FrameMaker MIF Settings

HTML Settings
  • HTML Elements and Attributes

InCopy ICML Settings

InDesign IDML Settings

InDesign INX Settings

Java Resources Settings

OpenDocument Presentation Settings

OpenDocument Spreadsheet Settings

OpenDocument Text Document Settings

PDF Settings
  • PDF About...

PowerPoint 2007-2010 Settings

PowerPoint XP and 2003 Settings

QuarkXPress Settings

Text (Regular Expression Delimited Text) Settings

Examples - Structuring Text Files (Regular Expression Delimited Text Files)

Rich Text Format Settings

SDL Edit (ITD) Settings
  • Translating a Single SDL Edit (ITD) File
  • Translating SDL Edit (ITD) Files in a Project

Trados Translators Workbench (Bilingual Workbench) Settings

TRADOStag (TTX) Settings
  • TradosTag TTX File Original (Native) File

Word 2000-2003 Settings

Word 2007-2010 Settings

XLIFF file types

SDLXLIFF Settings

WorldServer XLIFF (WsXLIFF) Settings

XLIFF Settings

XML files (non-XLIFF)

Because of the nature of XML (an extensible language), XML files have a large number of settings pages.

Detection Settings - Identify XML File Type by Content

About XML Parser Rules with Examples
  • XML Parser Rule Settings
  • About Importing Parser Rules

XML Writer

XML Entity Conversion

XML Namespaces

XML Whitespace Normalization

XML Preview

XML Validation page

About Embedded Content
  • Embedded Content

XML Examples

Example - Defining a Parser Rule to Highlight Structure

Example - Configuring XML File Types for Embedded Content

Example - Embedded HTML; Process all Tags

Example - Creating an XML File type XML-Letter

Example - the Parser Rules Used in XML-Letter

Example - Restricting Element Length in XML

Example - Setting Format Properties for XML-Letter

Downloading the Example XML Files

example-xml-files.zip

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Topic:  Published: 27-Jun-2012