Pagehand 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. Pagehand 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, Pagehand converts the document to Pagehand format. If you want to save the document in its original format, you can export it. In other words, Pagehand 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:

• Open the file in the normal way. Pagehand will convert the file into a Pagehand document.

To convert a Pagehand document into .doc, .docx, .odt, .odt, .sxw, .stw, .html, or .webarchive format:

• 1. From the File menu choose Export...
• 2. Choose a name and location for the exported file.

Pagehand will continue to work with the document in Pagehand format.