Translation File Format Support

Translate business documents, design files, software resources, structured content, multimedia, and eLearning materials while protecting the structure and functionality that make each file usable.

黑料大事记 combines file engineering, AI-powered translation workflows, professional linguists, multilingual desktop publishing, and quality assurance to process both everyday documents and technically complex localization files.

Source files
DOCX
PDF
INDD
JSON
XLIFF
SRT
黑料大事记 file workflow

Content and structure move together

  • Analyze file structure
  • Protect technical elements
  • Translate and review
  • Validate multilingual output
Multilingual delivery
  • Editable business files
  • Production-ready resources
  • Formatted multilingual layouts
  • Timed subtitle deliverables

100+ Languages

Professional language support for global business, software, technical content, and regulated industries.

AI + Human Workflows

Flexible translation workflows combining automation, terminology, translation memory, and professional review.

File Engineering + DTP

Technical preparation, content extraction, file reconstruction, multilingual formatting, and visual QA.

ISO-Certified Quality

Quality processes supported by ISO 17100, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certifications.

File-Aware Translation

Your File Is Part of the Translation

A file is not simply a container for words. It may also contain styles, links, formulas, variables, tags, conditional content, timing information, graphics, interactive elements, or publishing instructions.

A Word document may rely on heading styles and cross-references. An InDesign package may include linked graphics, fonts, layers, and carefully positioned text frames. A software resource file may combine translatable strings with keys, placeholders, and code. A subtitle file must preserve timing as well as meaning.

黑料大事记 evaluates both the linguistic content and the technical structure so the translated output remains accurate, functional, and ready for its intended audience.

Structure

Styles, tables, sections, worksheets, slides, topics, and reusable content that organize the file.

Logic

Tags, keys, variables, formulas, links, timing data, and other elements that must continue to work.

Presentation

Typography, spacing, page flow, text frames, diagrams, and visual hierarchy that shape the final experience.

Context

Comments, notes, screenshots, metadata, and surrounding content that help linguists interpret meaning correctly.

Supported Formats

Find the Right Workflow for Your File

Search by extension, application, or content type. Some files can move directly into translation, while others require preparation, OCR, conversion, multilingual desktop publishing, or localization engineering before final delivery.

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Business Documents

Translate Everyday Business Files Without Rebuilding Them

黑料大事记 processes common productivity files used for corporate communications, legal documents, financial reporting, training, marketing, technical documentation, and enterprise operations—while protecting the structure customers need after delivery.

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Microsoft Word

DOC 路 DOCX 路 DOCM 路 DOTX 路 RTF

Translate headings, paragraphs, tables, lists, headers, footers, footnotes, links, and agreed formatting while keeping the document editable.

Microsoft PowerPoint

PPT 路 PPTX 路 PPTM 路 PPSX

Localize slide text, speaker notes, charts, diagrams, tables, and labels, with formatting support for language expansion and visual balance.

Microsoft Excel

XLS 路 XLSX 路 XLSM 路 CSV 路 TSV

Separate translatable content from formulas, identifiers, codes, locked cells, and reference data across worksheets and structured exports.

OpenDocument Files

ODT 路 ODS 路 ODP

Process open-standard text, spreadsheet, and presentation files using a workflow suited to the content and required multilingual output.

Google Workspace Content

Agreed access or export workflow

Handle cloud-based documents, presentations, and spreadsheets through controlled access or export to an agreed production format.

Plain Text and Tabular Data

TXT 路 CSV 路 TSV

Translate content migrations, product data, surveys, software strings, and database exports while protecting delimiters and nontranslatable fields.

Confirm nonvisible content

Tracked changes, comments, hidden worksheets, speaker notes, text boxes, macros, metadata, and embedded objects should be identified during project setup so the right content is included—and content that should remain unchanged is protected.

PDF and Scanned Files

The Right PDF Workflow Depends on the Source

PDF files can look identical on screen while requiring very different translation processes. A file may contain editable text, scanned page images, interactive forms, annotations, flattened graphics, or content exported from another design application.

黑料大事记 reviews the source condition and required output before confirming the best combination of extraction, OCR, translation, reconstruction, formatting, and quality assurance.

Best practice

Provide the original Word, PowerPoint, InDesign, FrameMaker, Illustrator, or other editable source together with the PDF whenever possible. Native source files usually improve extraction, editability, formatting, and final visual quality.

Discuss a PDF or Scanned Document

Text-Based PDF

Digitally generated text can often be extracted for translation and returned as a formatted PDF, reconstructed editable file, or another agreed output.

Scanned PDF

OCR converts page images into editable text before linguistic review, translation, and document reconstruction begin.

Forms and Locked Files

Fillable fields, security restrictions, certificates, annotations, and interactive elements may require specialized preparation or the original source.

Images Containing Text

Screenshots, diagrams, labels, and image-based documents can be translated separately or reintegrated into a localized visual asset.

Design and Publishing

Multilingual Content That Still Looks Designed

Translation can change line length, word density, font requirements, text direction, page flow, and visual balance. 黑料大事记 combines professional translation with multilingual publishing expertise so localized materials remain readable, coherent, and aligned with the original brand experience.

Adobe InDesign

INDD 路 IDML 路 INX 路 INDB 路 ICML

Translate brochures, catalogs, reports, manuals, packaging content, and other publications with text reintegration and visual QA.

Best input: packaged project with links, fonts, and a reference PDF.

Adobe Illustrator

AI 路 EPS 路 SVG

Localize editable labels, diagrams, product graphics, callouts, and infographics while preserving the surrounding visual design.

Best input: live text, editable layers, and required fonts.

Adobe Photoshop

PSD

Replace editable layered text and adjust spacing for localized marketing, product, interface, and visual-support assets.

Best input: layered source files with editable text rather than flattened artwork.

QuarkXPress

QXP and project packages

Translate and format multilingual print or digital publications using the native package and supporting assets.

Best input: source package with fonts, images, and reference output.

Microsoft Publisher and Other DTP Files

PUB and agreed legacy formats

Review application version, source condition, editability, conversion options, and the required final delivery format.

Best input: native editable source plus a visual reference PDF.

Multilingual DTP

Production Support Beyond Text Replacement

File-aware desktop publishing helps the translated content fit the intended medium, language conventions, and final delivery requirements.

  • Text reflow and page-layout adjustment
  • Font replacement and multilingual typography
  • Tables, charts, diagrams, and graphic formatting
  • Right-to-left page and visual adaptation
  • Text-expansion, spacing, and alignment correction
  • Print-ready, digital PDF, and editable source output
Technical Documentation

Protect Reusable Content and Publishing Logic

Technical publications may rely on topic-based authoring, variables, reusable text, conditional content, metadata, cross-references, and automated publishing rules. 黑料大事记 separates translatable content from the surrounding structure so localized documentation remains connected, maintainable, and ready for its intended output.

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Adobe FrameMaker

FM 路 MIF 路 BOOK

Translate structured and unstructured manuals, books, variables, conditional text, cross-references, indexes, and tables of contents.

DITA

DITA 路 XML 路 DITAMAP

Preserve reusable topics, maps, identifiers, links, attributes, and publishing relationships across modular documentation sets.

XML and SGML

Customer-defined schemas

Configure extraction rules around translatable elements, protected attributes, embedded markup, variables, and application-specific metadata.

MadCap Flare

FLPRJ and project resources

Support topics, snippets, variables, conditions, glossaries, links, and multiple output targets within one controlled localization workflow.

HTML, XHTML, and Markdown

HTML 路 HTM 路 XHTML 路 MD

Translate web, help, knowledge-base, release-note, and developer content while protecting markup, links, code blocks, and metadata.

Software, Web, and App Resources

Localize User-Facing Content Without Breaking the Code

Software resource files combine translatable language with keys, variables, placeholders, escape sequences, and application logic. 黑料大事记 identifies the values that should be localized while protecting the technical elements required for builds, releases, and in-product functionality.

Explore Software Localization
Example resource file Approved strings exposed for translation
"checkout.title" "Complete your purchase"
"order.confirmation" "Order {order_id} is confirmed"
"delivery.days" "Arrives in {count} days"
"account.security" "Review your security settings"
Protected Elements

Language Changes. Application Logic Does Not.

The workflow protects nontranslatable syntax and validates the multilingual resource against the technical requirements established for the product.

  • Keys and resource identifiers
  • Variables and placeholders
  • Tags, escapes, and syntax
  • Character limits and plural rules

Microsoft .NET Resources

RESX

Preserve resource names, placeholders, XML structure, and protected values while localizing user-facing strings.

Java Resource Bundles

PROPERTIES

Keep keys and syntax intact while translating labels, messages, prompts, and other approved values.

Gettext

PO 路 POT 路 MO

Support source strings, context, plural forms, translator comments, references, and completed entries.

JSON and YAML

JSON 路 YAML 路 YML

Protect keys, indentation, punctuation, variables, and nontranslatable data in structured application content.

XML Resources

XML

Configure processing around the specific schema, translatable elements, approved attributes, and application logic.

iOS and Windows Resources

STRINGS 路 RC 路 RES

Localize interface labels, dialogs, menus, messages, and pluralized content while protecting identifiers.

HTML and Web Resources

HTML 路 HTM 路 XHTML

Translate visible copy, metadata, navigation, forms, alt text, and approved customer-facing attributes.

Custom Resource Files

Proprietary and internal formats

Review representative samples and establish a controlled extraction, translation, reintegration, and QA process.

Localization Exchange

Work With Existing Translation Assets and Tool Exports

Translation programs do not always begin with the original source file. 黑料大事记 can work with bilingual exchange files, translation memories, vendor handoff packages, and exports from existing localization platforms for translation, review, migration, quality validation, or continued program support.

XLIFF

XLIFF 路 XLF

Standard localization exchange

Protect inline tags, segment metadata, notes, statuses, and bilingual content across compatible localization workflows.

SDLXLIFF

SDLXLIFF

Trados-based bilingual workflow

Support translation, review, editing, and quality assurance while retaining compatible project metadata.

TMX

TMX

Translation memory exchange

Migrate, consolidate, analyze, and reuse approved source-and-target segments from existing language assets.

Legacy Bilingual Files

TTX and agreed formats

Managed continuity

Use compatible software, conversion, or a managed review process to continue work from earlier tool environments.

Language Asset Continuity

Bring Approved Language Forward

Existing translation memories, glossaries, bilingual reference files, and approved terminology can be evaluated and incorporated into the new workflow. This helps preserve prior decisions, improve consistency, and reduce unnecessary retranslation across documents, products, and future updates.

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Engineering and Visual Content

Translate Technical Visuals Without Losing Their Meaning

Drawings, process diagrams, schematics, infographics, and screenshots often contain small but critical language: dimensions, warnings, legends, component names, interface labels, and callouts. 黑料大事记 keeps translated text connected to the visual information it describes.

Explore Technical Translation Services
Dimensions and units Component labels Callout associations

AutoCAD Drawings

DWG and agreed CAD exports

Translate drawing text and annotations while protecting units, dimensions, technical terminology, and visual relationships.

Microsoft Visio

VSD 路 VSDX

Maintain the connection between translated text, shapes, connectors, layers, and process or system logic.

Diagrams, Infographics, and Screenshots

AI 路 PPTX 路 INDD 路 PSD 路 image formats

Localize editable labels, callouts, legends, interface text, and annotations without separating them from the visual they explain.

  • Dimensions and units
  • Callout-to-object relationships
  • Layers, connectors, and labels
  • Readable multilingual typography
Multimedia, Subtitles, and Audio

Localize the Language Viewers Hear and See

Multimedia localization can combine spoken dialogue, narration, subtitles, captions, on-screen text, graphics, sound mixing, and final platform specifications. 黑料大事记 supports individual media components as well as coordinated end-to-end workflows.

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Localized product training Spanish subtitles + voice-over
MODULE 03 · WORKSPACE SETUP
Ahora puede configurar su espacio de trabajo. 00:01:18.420 → 00:01:22.760

Video and Motion Content

MP4 路 MOV 路 AVI 路 WMV 路 MKV 路 WEBM 路 MPEG

Coordinate transcription, translation, subtitles, captions, voice-over, dubbing, on-screen text, and final media production.

Audio Content

MP3 路 WAV 路 agreed audio formats

Prepare narration, interviews, training audio, support content, and other spoken material for multilingual recording and delivery.

Subtitles and Captions

SRT 路 VTT 路 ASS 路 SBV 路 TTML 路 SUB

Preserve timing while controlling segmentation, line length, reading speed, speaker information, and synchronization.

Time-Coded Scripts

DOCX 路 XLSX 路 CSV 路 agreed exports

Protect time codes and speaker labels for subtitle, voice, review, and post-production workflows.

  • Time-code accuracy
  • Reading speed and line length
  • Speaker identification and sync
  • Platform-ready output settings
eLearning and Training

Keep Learning Content Connected Across Every Component

An eLearning course may combine slide text, narration, subtitles, quizzes, interactions, animations, graphics, downloadable documents, and LMS metadata. Successful localization keeps those components synchronized in every language.

Explore eLearning Localization
Global Product Training French · 62% complete

Configure the Core Workflow

Localized slides, narration, captions, and interactive prompts remain aligned with the same learning objective.

Knowledge check · 1 of 3 questions

SCORM Packages

ZIP and SCORM resources

Review package structure, identify translatable assets, localize the required components, and prepare content for reintegration and LMS testing.

Articulate Storyline

STORY and published packages

Support slides, layers, states, variables, triggers, quizzes, captions, narration scripts, and embedded media from editable source projects.

Adobe Captivate

CPTX and project exports

Localize slide text, interactions, assessments, narration, captions, and screen-recorded content according to project version and output needs.

HTML5 Courseware

HTML 路 XML 路 JSON 路 media assets

Process web-based learning content, structured resources, multimedia, and delivery components as one coordinated multilingual experience.

One Course. Coordinated Multilingual Assets.

  • Narration and voice-over
  • Subtitles and captions
  • Quizzes and interactions
  • Workbooks and job aids
File Engineering

From Source File to Production-Ready Multilingual Content

The correct process depends on the file, the content, the target languages, and how the translated output will be used. 黑料大事记 brings those requirements into one controlled, file-aware workflow.

01

Analyze

Review file type, structure, source quality, translatable content, embedded elements, target languages, output expectations, and technical risks.

02

Prepare

Separate language from protected code, tags, variables, formulas, identifiers, and other elements. Preparation may also include OCR, conversion, cleanup, or parser configuration.

03

Translate

Route content through the workflow appropriate to its subject matter, audience, risk level, and intended use, using the right combination of technology and linguistic expertise.

04

Review

Verify meaning, terminology, fluency, consistency, context, and audience suitability, with specialist or in-context review included where required.

05

Rebuild

Return translated content to the required file structure through reintegration, multilingual DTP, image editing, subtitle synchronization, audio production, or eLearning engineering.

06

Validate and Deliver

Check linguistic quality and file integrity through agreed tag, placeholder, formatting, visual, functional, link, timing, and output validation before delivery.

The workflow is configured around your requirements. A business document, software resource, regulated file, multimedia asset, and publishing package may each need a different balance of automation, human review, engineering, formatting, and validation.

Content and File Integrity

What We Protect Across the Translation Workflow

The elements that need protection vary by format. 黑料大事记 defines those requirements during project setup so linguists, engineers, reviewers, and publishers work toward the same accurate, functional, and production-ready output.

Language and Terminology

Meaning, approved product terms, industry terminology, brand language, tone, and style conventions.

Document Structure

Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, slides, worksheets, topics, references, and reusable content.

Technical Syntax

Tags, keys, identifiers, attributes, placeholders, variables, escape sequences, delimiters, and protected code.

Functional Elements

Formulas, links, fields, conditional content, plural rules, cross-references, timing information, and application logic.

Visual Presentation

Text frames, page flow, typography, charts, diagrams, spacing, alignment, graphics, and language-specific layout.

Delivery Requirements

Native source files, multilingual PDFs, localized resources, bilingual files, subtitles, final media, LMS packages, or another agreed output.

Protection is defined by format and intended use. The final validation plan can include linguistic, structural, visual, functional, timing, and delivery checks based on the agreed project scope.

Preparation Guidance

Better Source Files Produce Better Multilingual Results

A well-prepared source package reduces avoidable questions, protects quality, and helps translation, engineering, review, and publishing move forward as one connected workflow.

Provide the Editable Source

Send the native Word, PowerPoint, Excel, InDesign, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Storyline, software-resource, or other editable source whenever it is available. A reference PDF can accompany the source to show the intended appearance.

Include Linked Assets

Package the fonts, images, graphics, media, scripts, and supporting files used by the source application so multilingual production can reproduce the intended output accurately.

Identify What Should Be Translated

Clarify whether the scope includes hidden text, speaker notes, comments, tracked changes, metadata, image text, worksheet tabs, subtitles, embedded files, or source-code comments.

Share Context and References

Provide screenshots, staging access, reference files, product information, existing translations, style guidance, and approved terminology鈥攅specially for short strings or content with several possible meanings.

Remove Obsolete Content

Where practical, remove superseded drafts, duplicate files, unused slides, legacy strings, and outdated assets before submission to reduce unnecessary translation and version-control risk.

Define the Required Output

Confirm whether you need editable source files, print-ready PDFs, localized software resources, bilingual review files, subtitles, final media, LMS packages, or another delivery format.

Confirm the target market as well as the language. Regional requirements can affect terminology, fonts, dates, currency, measurements, typography, and layout—for example, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, or Traditional Chinese for Taiwan.

Custom File Workflows

Complex, Custom, and Proprietary Formats

A missing extension does not necessarily mean the content cannot be translated. 黑料大事记 can review customized schemas, database exports, legacy files, internal authoring packages, and mixed-content formats to define a controlled multilingual workflow.

Representative custom resource Schema Review
<product id="A-104">   <label>Configure workspace</label>   <variable>{user_name}</variable>   <status translate="no">ACTIVE</status> </product>

Translate the Right Content. Protect Everything Else.

The file is evaluated as a working system—not merely as visible text—so extraction, translation, reintegration, and delivery remain aligned.

01

Sample Review

Inspect the file structure, encoding, translatable fields, protected elements, dependencies, and expected multilingual output.

02

Extraction Rules

Define which elements linguists should translate while keeping technical, structural, and nontranslatable data protected.

03

Pilot Processing

Validate extraction, translation, reintegration, and output quality on a representative sample before scaling production.

04

Managed Production

Apply the confirmed workflow across future files, languages, product releases, and recurring content updates.

05

Alternative Delivery

When native processing is not practical, use an agreed conversion, structured export, bilingual exchange, or database workflow.

Enterprise Controls

Quality and Security for Enterprise Files

File compatibility does not replace linguistic quality, technical validation, or secure handling. 黑料大事记 combines the controls appropriate to the file type, content risk, intended audience, and required delivery environment.

Linguistic Quality Assurance

Review meaning, terminology, grammar, style, consistency, and suitability for the intended audience.

Automated File Checks

Identify missing translations, number inconsistencies, tag problems, placeholder mismatches, and untranslated segments where the format allows.

Visual and Functional QA

Check formatted documents, software interfaces, multimedia, and eLearning content for overflow, fonts, layout, timing, and functional issues.

Translation Memory and Terminology

Reuse approved language across files, product versions, and updates to improve consistency and reduce unnecessary retranslation.

Controlled File Handling

Support managed intake, authorized project access, confidentiality controls, professional project teams, and controlled delivery.

Risk-Based Workflow Selection

Configure AI, professional translation, specialist review, QA, and validation according to the content, audience, and consequences of error.

File Format FAQs

Answers for Planning Your File Translation Workflow

Find practical guidance on source files, output formats, technical protection, multilingual production, automation, and secure enterprise delivery.

黑料大事记 supports a wide range of business documents, PDFs, publishing files, structured technical content, software resources, localization exchange files, engineering visuals, multimedia, subtitle files, and eLearning content. Because files with the same extension can vary greatly in complexity, 黑料大事记 reviews the actual source file and required output before confirming the final workflow.

File Review

Have a File You Need to Translate?

From a single business document to a complex publishing package or recurring software resources, 黑料大事记 can help define the right translation and file-production workflow. Send us a representative file with your languages, intended use, and required output.