Multilingual desktop publishing or foreign-language typesetting means that you create your content in its usual layout and format, for example using InDesign, Photoshop or MS Word, and after translation, you receive back perfectly laid-out target language files in the same file format.

Our translation memory system, Transit NXT, can work with all current file formats and will import your file in its original format.

Once it has been worked on by our skilled translation team, the translated text is exported back into the original format: The translations are automatically inserted into the original layout – time-consuming and error-prone copy and pasting processes are a thing of the past. After the quality checking step, our expert desktop publishing team will adapt the raw export layout to the various target languages.

The team will take into account any cultural conventions and characteristics that could have an effect on the layout, design and graphics. Our DTP specialists have an eye for the linguistic refinement of a document’s layout as a result of their daily contact with different languages and fonts. For languages from further afield, we work closely with the DTP teams in our global STAR network; especially for CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean), knowledge of the language and a localised version of the DTP software are a must.

Our DTP experts can support you in designing and creating a document that has the optimum layout for the translation process. It drastically reduces the work needed on translation and DTP for your target languages.

Across our global network, we also have the linguistic expertise to give your documents one final polish in the target language. We are familiar with the standard desktop publishing software and the best DTP programs, and we also know how these can be used for Asian, Arabic and Indian languages. This expertise is complemented by extensive automation of publishing processes. This results in fast, standardised processes to free up your DTP employees’ workloads, allowing them to concentrate on those tasks that cannot be automated.

We can advise you and show you how your source documents can be set out in a “translation-friendly” manner. The source documents form the basis for all target languages – in the worst case scenario, problem areas are carried over from the source to the target documents and must be dealt with individually in each of those files. Our DTP experts know how to create a document that is optimised for the translation process – in technical and formal terms. It can drastically reduce the work needed on translation and DTP for your target languages.
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