Hi ,

These filetypes are not supported in Studio. Please feel free to check all the file formats compatible with Trados Studio in this link:

https://www.sdl.com/software-and-services/translation-software/sdl-trados-studio/supported-languages-and-file-types.html

Hope it helps!

Thank you Oana,

Milada

, Oana Nagy

Just a few comments on this as it may help...

Unknown said:

can you please tell me if Trados Studio 2019 can deal with .ai or .cdr file formats?

If you have a copy of Adobe Illustrator you can Export the *.ai file as a *.psd and then Studio can deal with it as we have a Photoshop filetype in the latest release.  If yo don't and you'd like to test this feel free to send me your *.ai file and I'll do this for you to test.  Or, just ask your customer to export as Photoshop PSD instead.

On the *.cdr.  I believe this is Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator can also open these.  So you may be able to take the same approach as for the *.ai files.

Dear Paul,

thank you for telling me the solution. I do not have the files yet, I wanted to inform myself first.

Have a nice week-end,

Milada

Dear all,

Glad I saw this post  and updated Trados finally as we are using Corel Draw for the pictures and it would be great to save all the workarounds by exporting to psd. However, I just tried with one of the graphics but all I get is an empty document in Trados.

Does anyove have any idea about settings that need to be made for the png or similar while exporting from Corel? Did you manage, ?

The xliff that Trados creates is empty apart from the general tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xliff xmlns:sdl="">sdl.com/.../1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2" version="1.2" sdl:version="1.0"><file original="XXX.psd" datatype="x-sdlfilterframework2" source-language="en-US" target-language="de-DE"><header><reference><external-file href="file://FootSwitch_Requirements_001.psd" uid="Photoshop.DependencyFileId"/></reference>.....

I have er-imported the psd in Corel Draw and all is displayed but as plain picture...

Any ideas welcome :-)

yve

Yvonne Rezbach

I guess the obvious thing to check is whether the PSD contains any actual text?

Yes, obvious thing :-) As I created the Corel file myself, I know that there is text boxes with texts in them. I don't know how to check whether the psd file still has the text as such or changed it to a pic, haven't found a  tool to display the content with having Photoshop installed.

Yvonne Rezbach

If you can share the converted file (*.psd) I'd be happy to look at this for you?  You ca send it to pfilkin@sdl.com.

Hi Paul

Is there a chance .ai might get supported by a native file type in Studio at some point? 

We get these files regularly and the workarounds are not ery promising (.psd seems to throw errors on finalization sometimes). 

Benjamin Glück

Benjamin Glück said:

Is there a chance .ai might get supported by a native file type in Studio at some point? 

I guess this depends on how many others get these files regularly.  Patrik Mazanek would be able to advise if this is even on his radar.

Failing that you always have the option to employ a developer to create one using the Studio API.  Might give you some competitive advantage and be worth the cost if there is no interest from anyone else.