Multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP)

Translating a user manual or a marketing collateral piece is only half the challenge. Once the initial linguistic work is finished, there are additional steps that need to be taken before the project can be considered "done":

pages need to be reformatted in order to accommodate language expansion as well as to ensure that the layout is identical to that of the source language document
graphics containing text need to be translated and localized
screens captured from localized applications need to replace source-language screens
indexes and tables of contents need to be generated and proofread for accuracy
a final QA of the source and target language layouts need to be completed
PDFs need to be generated to be sent as deliverables along with source application files

Interpro provides a full range of complex multilingual desktop publishing and design services for both the PC and Macintosh platforms using the most current page layout and graphics applications available on the market.

Our in-house desktop publishing staff have many years of experience formatting multilingual content in complex languages such as Arabic, Japanese, and Thai, to name a few.

Our use of technology minimizes the amount of desktop publishing time required. Using filters that "protect" the DTP application's coding and tags that surround the source language document content, translators are left to translate only what needs to be translated, leaving the desktop publishing application coding intact. The effort to format the target language document is considerably less than the initial effort spent to format the source language document.

Since the content is translated using translation memory management tools, the translated segments (with coding and tags) are stored in the translation memory, allowing for maximum leveraging for subsequent updates to the document.

Contact us today for more detailed information concerning our DTP services and methodologies that are designed to streamline your projects without sacrificing quality.