Feature
Translate.
Don't redesign.
Fonts, tables, spacing, headers and footers, SmartArt, and slide structure all survive translation. When Arabic meets English, the layout mirrors with the writing direction. The output is publish-ready.
The flagship difference
Translation is fast.
Reformatting is what eats the week.
Anyone can translate the words. The cost hides in what comes after: rebuilding tables, refitting slides, fixing fonts, re-flowing a right-to-left page into a left-to-right one. TranslateX does that part too, which is why its motto is Translate. Don't redesign.
Publish-ready output
The document comes back as designed.
TranslateX rebuilds the translated document in the original design. Fonts and text styles, tables and their cells, spacing and margins, headers and footers, footnotes, slide structure, even SmartArt: they are all carried into the translated copy, in the same format as the source.
The output is not a draft to hand to a designer. It is the document, in the other language, ready to publish.
- Same format in, same format out: DOCX to DOCX, PPTX to PPTX, PDF to PDF
- Headings, tables, and footnotes keep their place and style
- Optionally, text inside images is OCR read, masked, and redrawn translated
Same bones on both sides: headline, body, chart, table. Only the language and the direction change.
RTL ↔ LTR mirroring
When the direction flips, the layout flips with it.
Arabic to English is the hard case, because the entire page changes direction. A right-aligned Arabic heading has to become a left-aligned English one; a table that reads right to left has to read left to right; the logo corner and the text column trade sides.
In PowerPoint this goes further: TranslateX mirrors shape positions on the slide when the writing direction flips, so an RTL deck becomes a natural LTR deck, not an LTR deck squinting at an RTL skeleton. The same applies in reverse when English documents go into Arabic.
Arabic & RTL excellence →Shape positions mirror across the slide when direction flips, so the deck reads naturally in both languages.
Element by element
What survives translation? Everything.
Every job reports what it carried over. Fonts, tables, spacing, headers, footers, slide structure, and SmartArt are preserved as a matter of course; image text and direction mirroring are handled by their own passes. If your organization publishes in two languages, this is the difference between one workflow and two design teams.
How communications teams use it →Formats with opinions
Each format is preserved on its own terms.
A PDF is a fixed page, a DOCX is a flowing document, a PPTX is a canvas of positioned shapes, and an XLSX is a grid. Preserving layout means respecting what each format actually is: pages stay paged, flows stay flowing, shapes stay placed, and cells stay celled. TranslateX translates each format as itself, which is why the copy opens cleanly in the same application the original came from.
Translated text is rarely the same length as the source. Arabic tends to run shorter than English in some passages and longer in others, so the engine fits the translation into the existing design rather than letting one long sentence shove a table onto the next page.
Translating inside Word and PowerPoint →Why it matters
Where the saved week actually goes.
Tables stay tables
Financial statements, comparison grids, and schedules keep their rows, columns, and merged cells. Nobody re-types the annexes.
Typography stays intentional
The fonts and styles the brand team chose survive the trip, including the punctuation and typography nuance Arabic demands.
Output goes straight out
Press releases, board packs, and reports leave TranslateX in publishable shape. Review the words, not the design.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is preserved in the translated copy?
Fonts and text styles, tables, spacing and margins, headers and footers, footnotes, slide structure, and SmartArt. The translated copy comes back in the same format as the original, designed the same way.
What happens when I translate between Arabic and English?
The layout is mirrored along with the writing direction: alignment, reading order, and, in PowerPoint, shape positions on each slide all flip so the result reads naturally in the target language. See Arabic & RTL excellence.
Does it handle PowerPoint decks specifically?
Yes. Slide structure is preserved and shape positions are mirrored when the direction flips between RTL and LTR, so an Arabic deck becomes a natural English deck rather than a mirrored mess, and the reverse.
What about text that lives inside images?
With the image-translation option on, TranslateX reads image text with OCR, masks the original, and draws the translation in its place, so charts and infographics match the rest of the document. See document translation.
Is the output really ready to publish?
That is the design goal: publish-ready output in the original design. Review the translation itself, run your terminology checks, and send it, rather than budgeting days for reformatting.
Translate the document. Keep the design.
Right-click a file, work inside Office, or press F6 on anything on screen. TranslateX returns the same document in the other language: fonts, tables, and layout intact, terminology on brand.
Arabic, English & more · Layout preserved · On-premises available