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A template is not a deck. Translating it changes every future presentation built from it, which makes it the highest-advantage file in the set as well.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
A .pptm is a PowerPoint with macros attached. The macros are code, they can contain user-facing strings, and they survive or they do not as well.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
XTG is Quark's tagged text format. Every formatting instruction is inline with the words, which is exactly what makes it fragile almost everywhere.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
Resx files hold strings, images and files in one XML schema. Translating the wrong node type is what corrupts them as well across the whole state.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
A PNG or JPG has no text to edit, only pixels. How the translation is done, what the background reconstruction gets wrong, and when to find the source.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
TTX is a legacy Trados bilingual format. If you have been sent one, somebody is on an old toolchain and there are specific things not to break as well.
Samhitha J Bhatt · Aug 17, 2026
