Document import settings
In the Document import settings window, you fine-tune the settings that control how memoQ imports a document. These settings are different for each document type.
To add documents to a project, you can simply throw them at the Translations field. Then memoQ imports them with the default settings, which don't always produce the results you expect. For some document types (such as plain text or XML), the default settings don't even make sense most of the time.
To import a document, memoQ needs a filter configuration to specify how to read / import a document that needs to be translated. When memoQ imports a document, it gets the text out of it, and stores the formatting (and everything else that doesn't need to be translated) in a safe place. The part that is not the text is called a skeleton.
When you need to import documents with customized settings, use the Import with options command. Then, in the Document import options window, click to change the filter configuration. This will take you to the Document import settings window.
Translation preview does not work for all document formats: You will get a preview if you import Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, XML (through XSLT style sheets, too), WPML XLIFF, multilingual Excel, text, and XML, and - through Language Terminal - InDesign documents.
How to get here
- Open a local project.
- In Project home tab, choose Translations.
- In the Documents ribbon, click the down arrow below the Import icon.
- From the menu, choose Import with options.
- An Open window appears. Find and select the documents you want to import. Click Open.
- The Document import options window appears.
- Select the documents where you want to change the settings. At the bottom, click Change filter & configuration.
To change the settings for all documents: In the top left corner, click the empty check box next to the File name header. Then, at the bottom, click the Change filter & configuration link.
- The Document import settings window appears.
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The Document import settings window is different for each document type. This screenshot is just an example.
What can you do?
Document types
The document import settings are different for each document type. Click the name of the filter to learn more about its settings.
- Adobe InDesign documents (INX)
- Adobe InDesign Markup Language documents (IDML)
- Adobe FrameMaker documents (MIF) (Click here for the settings of the previous MIF version.)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- Bilingual DOC/RTF files
- COTI packages
- HTML documents (Hypertext Markup Language)
- Java properties files (.properties)
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- Microsoft Excel 2003 and older workbooks and templates (XLS and XLT)
- Microsoft Excel 2007 and newer (XLSX) workbooks
- Microsoft Powerpoint 2003 and older presentations (PPT and PPS)
- Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 and newer presentations (PPTX)
- Microsoft Visio drawings (VSD and VSDX)
- Microsoft Word 2003 and older documents (DOC and RTF)
- Microsoft Word 2007 and newer documents (DOCX)
- Multilingual tables (spreadsheets, Excel workbooks) and delimited text files (CSV)
- OpenDocument format filter (OpenOffice Write) documents (ODT)
- PDF files (Portable Document Format)
- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- Plain text files (TXT)
- PO Gettext files
- Regex tagger (no specific file extension; always use this after another filter), see also Regular expressions
- Regex text filter (no specific file extension; for generic regex-based processing of structured plain-text files)
- .NET Resource files (XML)
- SDL Trados TagEditor (TTX)
- SDL Trados Studio XLIFF (SDLXLIFF)
- SubRip video subtitles (SRT)
- Translation Memory Exchange (TMX) as document
- XLIFF files (XML Localization Interchange File Format)
- WordPress files (WPML XLIFF)
- XML files (eXtensible Markup Language)
- YAML Ain't a Markup Language (YAML)
- ZIP files
- AuthorIT projects (*.xml): no extra settings
- DITA documents (*.dita): no extra settings
- Excel 2003 XML spreadsheets (*.xml): no extra settings
- FreeMind mindmaps (*.mm): no extra settings
- Microsoft Visio charts (*.vdx): no extra settings
- Microsoft Help Workshop files (*.hhc, *.hhk): no extra settings
- Scalable Vector Graphics drawings (*.svg): no extra settings
- Typo3 pages (*.xml): no extra settings
- QuarkXpress (*.tag, *.qsc): no extra settings
Note: QuarkXpress is only supported when you use a QuarkXpress Plugin for QuarkXpress to extract the translatable content. memoQ supports the QSC format from Quark Story Collector (an extension for older Quark versions that came with Trados), and the TAG format from CopyFlow Gold by Napsys. Codesco has an ex-Translation filter, that will export and reimport directly in XLIFF for QuarkXpress version 7x, 8x and 9x.
When you finish
To confirm the settings, and return to the Document import options window: Click OK.
To return the Document import options window, and not change the filter settings: Click Cancel.
In the Document import options window: Click OK again to start importing the documents.