Exports & integrations
Export keeps as much of your formatting as it can. For files you imported as DOCX, EPUB, or Google Docs, that means an exact round trip. A PDF, a scan or a comic comes back on its own pages.
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Will my export keep the original formatting?
For a document imported from a Word file, Word (.docx) repacks the translation into your original DOCX, and the grey line under it reads Keeps your original formatting. Styles, fonts, tables, images, numbering, and headers/footers all survive because only the text is swapped. Plain Word file, just below it, builds a fresh file with simple formatting instead. A Word file imported before June 2026 needs a one-time re-import to keep its formatting.
Google Docs — original layout does the same for native Google Docs — a copy of the original in your Drive with translated text swapped in; your original is never modified.
Export as EPUB does the same for books imported from an .epub: your translation goes back into each chapter of the original book, and the cover, images, fonts, styles, footnote links, and table of contents stay as they were. The title and the contents list are translated too, and the book declares its new language, which e-readers use for hyphenation and read-aloud.
PDF · Same pages does the same for a PDF, a scan or a comic uploaded as Same pages or Rebuilt pages: your original pages with the translation written in, in the original’s fonts and sizes. PDF · Rebuilt pages gives each page rebuilt in the original’s style, with room for longer text, and CBZ · Translated pages gives a comic’s pages as a .cbz for comic readers. See PDFs, scans and comics.
What formats and integrations can I export to?
You can also export a fresh, plainly-styled Word, PDF, or Markdown file, or send to Notion or Google Docs; a document that came in as HTML, from a file or a paste, also offers Export as HTML. On a document that didn’t come from a Word file, Word (.docx) is that plain Word file, and its grey line reads Simple formatting. For multi-language documents, All languages (.docx) exports every version at once. In fresh-file exports, headings, lists, bold/italic, and links survive; very complex layouts simplify, so use an export into your original file for full fidelity.
Every format sits in the Share & export menu, the icon at the right of the editor’s top bar (on a phone, near the bottom of the ⋯ menu, above Share with people). Once every block is translated and nothing is running on the document, the main button in the top bar is Download, which opens the same formats; on a phone, so does the button above the bottom bar.
A downloaded file is named after the document and the language it is in, as in “Report (EN).docx”. TMX, XLIFF, CSV and strings files hold every language, so they carry the title alone.
Does exporting cost credits?
No. Every export is free, including exports run as a step inside a workflow. Credits are spent only when AI works on your text.
What happens to blocks I haven’t translated yet when I export?
It depends which export you pick. The exports into your original file keep the source text for any block that isn’t translated, so the file stays complete; the fresh-file exports (a plain Word file, Markdown, Google Docs) skip untranslated blocks instead.
Are headers and footers translated?
No. When Word (.docx) keeps your original formatting, headers and footers keep their source-language text: only body content is translated.
Can I export to Trados, memoQ, or another CAT tool?
Yes. Under Translation data in the export menu, Transept exports TMX (a memory of source+target segment pairs), XLIFF (a bilingual working file), and CSV (a source column plus one column per target language). Glossaries export separately, from the glossary page, as CSV or TBX.
Can I export a PDF with its original layout?
Yes, when you uploaded it as Same pages or Rebuilt pages. In Vision, Share & export → PDF · Same pages writes the translation onto your original pages, PDF · Rebuilt pages gives the rebuilt pages, and a comic also comes as CBZ · Translated pages. A PDF uploaded as Text only exports as PDF · Text only, Word or Markdown. See PDFs, scans and comics.
Still stuck? Ask Literess in the app, or write to support@transept.ai.