Accurate Document Translation Services

Multilingual Desktop Publishing

Interpro’s professional Desktop Publishing (DTP) specialists and linguists will work with you to tailor our document translation services to your requirements and budget. Our experts are trained in state-of-the-art publishing technology and highly experienced in popular tools and applications for content authoring, page layout and graphics.

Interpro Handles It All for Your Document Translation Services

Everything in your source materials will be considered, including format, text, hyperlinks, screen captures, titles, charts, diagrams, photos, illustrations, and other types of images and graphics, as well as any conflicts or issues to be resolved. Give us your authoring tool’s native files and we’ll return them, fully translated, formatted to match your source files, and ready to print—with no additional work required by your in-house team.

We offer multilingual desktop publishing services for both PC and Mac in all our target languages, including some of the most challenging to format, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.

Text Expansion and Pagination

Depending on the target language, translated content may expand enough to prevent it from fitting within text boxes originally designed to accommodate the source language. Before translation begins, we’ll identify areas that have the potential for text expansion issues. If maintaining original pagination is critical, this should be specified at project onset. Your Interpro team will help you select appropriate options to ensure a consistent appearance throughout all languages.

Font Selection

There are more fonts available for English than for Asian or Eastern European languages. Our team will help you choose appropriate fonts to match your target languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

These tips will help you prepare your fonts for translation:

• Be sure to provide all fonts used in the document when submitting your project.
• Adobe Typekit is a helpful resource for font language support if you’re interested in selecting your own font.
• For any fonts used in your source documents: do not convert text to outlines before translating an .indd file—this converts text to graphics, adding time and cost to your project

Translating Text in Graphics and Screen Captures

Graphics containing text will be translated and properly formatted in each target language. If screen captures are included and you can provide foreign language versions of the same, Interpro can replace them accordingly.

Formula Protection

Formula functions will be protected, and formulas analyzed to ensure that internal references remain intact. Any translatable literals contained within the formula will be translated without affecting functionality. We can translate your entire spreadsheet, including worksheets and worksheet names, or you can identify individual worksheets, rows, columns, or cells to include and exclude.

What is Multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP)?

Multilingual desktop publishing, or multilingual DTP, is formatting translated materials so their design looks and feels consistent across languages.

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