Categories of file formats

The file formats supported by WorldServer are grouped into three MIME (format) categories: Application, Image, and Text.

Application

These file formats include Microsoft Office products such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft Excel, specific types of XML such as DITA and DocBook, JavaServer Pages, and .NET resources. The default associations for these file formats should identify the translatable content in your assets correctly most of the time. You can create specific file type configurations by going to Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > File Types.

Image

In general, image file formats are not translatable. The exception is the deprecated Binary legacy filter, which handles .png, .jpg, and .gif files.

The Binary (Deprecated) legacy filter handles images within the translatable content in Browser Workbench. You can use it to mark a file as translatable, but not segmentable. For example, you could apply the Binary (Deprecated) legacy filter to an image file that contains content that you want translated. A workflow can send it to a translator, who would need to use the appropriate tools to prepare a localized file in that format, and then upload the target file into WorldServer.

You cannot export binary assets to desktop translation tools. You need to upload the associated files directly into the tools.

Text

For text file formats, the file types parse and retrieve translatable text from assets using popular markup languages including HTML, Adobe FrameMaker .mif assets, and Quark Express.