Lilt supports import and export of the formats listed in the table below. Moreover, export to both plain text and XLIFF 1.2 is available for any import format (see Download your work). All translated and confirmed segments can also be exported in TMX format for each Memory. Supported translation memory formats are TMX and SDLTM.
Desktop Publishing Formats
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Extension |
Format |
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docx, docm, dotx, dotm,pptx, pptm, potx, potm, ppsx, ppsm,xlsx, xlsm, xltx, xltm,vsdx, vsdm |
Microsoft Office 2007+ |
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ods, ots, odg, otg, odp, otp, odt, ott |
OpenOffice / LibreOffice |
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PDF (import only!) |
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idml, mif |
Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker |
Microsoft Office legacy file formats doc, xls, and ppt support only text or xliff export, and will not support export to original format. The import of Microsoft Office legacy file formats is only available via the API.
PDF files can only be imported as such and will be available for text export. Note also that PDF sometimes contains hard line breaks which can result in unfavorable segmentation. We suggest to either use the original file format, if available, or convert PDF to Word (there are lots of very good free tools for this) and translate that. Word can then save PDF again. In case you already started or even finished translating a PDF but require the original formatting, you can convert the PDF to Word and upload that to the same project. Exact matches from your PDF translation will then be autopropagated to this new document.
Text and Software Localization Formats
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Extension |
Format |
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txt, csv, tsv |
Plain text, Comma- and Tab-separated Values |
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xml, htm, html, php |
XML, HTML, PHP |
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md |
Markdown |
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srt |
SubRip subtitle file |
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json |
Javascript Object Notation (JSON) |
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json+html |
Javascript Object Notation (JSON) with embedded HTML |
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yml, yaml |
YAML |
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strings |
iOS/Mac Strings |
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properties |
Java properties |
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wix, resx |
Windows installer XML, .NET resources |
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lang |
Skype language files |
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rdf |
Mozilla RDF |
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dita, ditamap |
DITA |
Bilingual Formats
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Extension |
Format |
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xlf, xliff |
XLIFF 1.2 |
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mxlf, mxliff |
Memsource XLIFF (undocumented format) |
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mqxliff |
MemoQ XLIFF (undocumented format) |
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sdlxlf, sdlxliff |
SDLXLIFF (undocumented format) |
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txml |
Wordfast Pro TXML |
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ttx |
Trados Tag Editor |
Translation Memory and Termbase
|
Extension |
Format |
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tmx, tmx.zip |
Translation Memory eXchange |
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sdltm |
SDL Trados Studio Translation Memory (import only) |
|
tbx |
TermBase eXchange (import only) |
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tsv |
Tab-delimited text (import only) |
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csv |
Comma-delimited text (import only) |
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xlsx |
Microsoft Excel 2007+ (import only) |
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tmq |
TestMaster (import only) |
File Size Limitations
Maximum TM file size: 200MB, applicable to all filetypes listed above.
For larger files, zip the TMX file and upload with the extension .tmx.zip. Lilt currently only supports zipping .tmx files.
For tsv, csv, and xlsx termbases, simply use a two-column format where the first column contains the terms in the source language and the second column the corresponding translations in the target language.
Packages
|
Extension |
Format |
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sdlppx |
SDL Trados Studio Project Package (import only) |
SDLPPX packages can be imported in the Project Documents window. Lilt will upload the first document in the package, and will also automatically upload any associated SDLTM files into the Translation Memory.