Any
time an application has a Save As... option, you have the
option to translate the data format of the current file into another
format. This can typically be shown with an imaging program (that
lets you save TIFFs as PNG or JPG) or a text editor (that lets you
save RTFs as TXT).
In other operating systems, the code that handles this kind of
translation has to be built into each application, which means that
the programs become bigger, and if the file format isn't supported
in the program, then you are out of luck!

In Zeta, things are as told quite different. All supported file
formats are called Translators and placed in two central locations
in the operating system:
/boot/beos/system/add-ons/Translators
/boot/home/config/add-ons/Translators
The first location should be kept for the default Translators provided
in Zeta. If you want to add some Translators your self, then these
should be placed in the second location.
Some Translators have their own small Preferences. For example,
the JPG file format always gives you the option to specify the degree
of compression of the images stored in the file format.
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