Pagesmith does an excellent job of translating simple RTF documents, such as those produced by TextEdit. It can translate documents in .doc, .docx, .odt, .odt, .sxw, .stw, .html, and .webarchive formats, too. But let’s be honest. The more complex the document, the poorer the translation. Pagesmith uses Apple’s basic document translation system, the same that TextEdit uses. Some other applications, such as Pages and Nisus, have more powerful translators. Document translation is an important area that we hope to upgrade.
When you open a document in one of the formats listed in the previous paragraph, Pagesmith converts the document to Pagesmith format. If you want to save the document in its original format, you can export it. In other words, Pagesmith imports and exports other file formats, but it does not work with a file in its native format.
To import a file in .doc, .docx, .odt, .odt, .sxw, .stw, .html, or .webarchive format:
To convert a Pagesmith document into .doc, .docx, .odt, .odt, .sxw, .stw, .html, or .webarchive format:
Pagesmith will continue to work with the document in Pagesmith format.