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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Which is what bothers me. MS Word supports RTF. Why do they need a special converter when all you need to do in Word is "Save As" and choose RTF?
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There are some CAT tools (computer aided translation) called SDLx and Trados. These tools support, among many others, both RTF and DOC. However, what they really do is convert DOC into RTF without any user intervention. They will open a Word macro and save the file automatically before extracting the text for translation.
If you want to translate Excel or Powerpoint files, you will need MS Office, and I think the CAT software converts them into XML before extracting the text.
I guess this is what Sony eReader software will do: do the conversion for you (maybe into RTF, maybe into XML).
BTW,
Gameboy70, that's what I thought when I saw the new specs. I miss HTML heavily, tho.