Foreign Language Typesetting Mac & PC
Multilingual typesetting in Quark Xpress - InDesign - Pagemaker - Illustrator - Publisher - PagePlus
Arabic - Bengali - Chinese - Gujarati - Farsi - Kurdish - Russian - Urdu... 
"Foreign language typesetting service? - Cool!"
We're a language company, not designers - but we work with many designers and appreciate the effort great design takes. We know you're too busy to re-format translation, and if you're still re-typing (are you sure you've got all those accents right?) or scanning translation, our multilingual typesetting's just what you need... some examples are below
For many translation agencies poor or no formatting is the norm. Do your translators only offer scans, or good old PDF? You can do so much better! Our foreign language typesetting service offers the design professional the works - your design, translated, typeset, proofread, press-ready, looking every bit as good as your original.
But however nicely typeset, poor translation remains poor translation - that's why our language translation process also assures you of the highest standard of language. We provide full multilingual typesetting for language translation of brochures, flyers, catalogues, journals, manuals, posters, cards... If you can design it in Quark Xpress, Illustrator, PhotoShop or InDesign we can typeset translation into it, in any language, on Mac or PC, on-time, reliably, and affordably.
"So what are the main issues in foreign language translation typesetting?"
Most Asian and Indian languages (Chinese, Bengali, Punjabi etc) read left-to-right, so layout issues are (relatively!) minor. If you need multilingual typesetting of a right-to-left language (such as Hebrew, Farsi or Arabic typesetting) layouts needs flipping - we'll do this for you. In right-to-left typesetting bullets, flowcharts and tables all need reversing, which can incur extra cost and time. For indexing or numbering, alphabets and numerals also vary, but as a rule numerals (Diagram 1 instead of Diagram A) are less problematic.Think about images for Arabic typesetting or other right-to-left languages; photos can usually move straight across, but how about that flowchart?"How about delivery formats? I’ve had nightmares with printers before with multilingual typesetting jobs…"
Whatever you need. Much foreign language typesetting can be provided in native Quark Xpress, Illustrator or InDesign formats, with fonts (license permitting). Replacing text in Quark with outline EPS is another option, or (in Illustrator or InDesign) outlining the complete text page (converting text to vector graphics) works well - or of course hi-res press-ready PDF made to your bleed and crop requirements is the failsafe way! You'll find our multilingual typesetting product worldwide."I get weird characters with some language typesetting - what's that about?"
Usually it means the font's not compatible with the foreign language you're typesetting, or the system you're typesetting on. Most Western languages (Spanish, German, French, Dutch ... up to about the eastern German border) are 100% represented in older fonts, so not too tricky - although most people seem to get accents wrong in their multilingual typesetting! Further south or east, it gets trickier. Greek & Turkish, CE & Russian languages - Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian etc; some African (Amharic, Tigrigna); Arabic, and most Indian and other Asian languages are problematic, with many fonts either rendering them wrongly or not at all. Trickiest though are those where the typesetting seems to work perfectly in "normal" typesetting fonts, but just a few characters are actually incorrect and go unnoticed - Tajik's a good example."Tigrigna and Tajik? Wow… Anything else I need to know?"
Other issues can be too much text (French can be 30% longer than English) - too little (Finnish can be 25% shorter!) - or word length (Russian and German compound words can be huge - correct hyphenation is critical). All these demand real multilingual typesetting expertise. Like ours.
But don't take our word for it - the proof is in the printing!
Here's a small selection from our foreign language typesetting, all here with the customers' blessing!
These are all PDFs - they'll open in new windows/tabs. You can download Acrobat Reader from here.
Something Arabic...(129KB) - with thanks to Liquid Plastics
Something Chinese...(1MB) - with thanks to Till & Whitehead
Something Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi & Urdu...(700KB) - with thanks to our Chamber of Commerce
Something Japanese...(606KB) - with thanks to BPI
Something Hebrew...(708KB) - with thanks to Amnesty International
Something Russian...(914KB) - with thanks to Hawke International
Something Spanish...(683KB) - with thanks to Tangerine Holdings
And something for the kids - more Chinese...(671KB) - with thanks to Harper-Collins, and some Hindi...(296KB) - with thanks to B3 Creative!
There's also some nice words about us from a multilingual typesetting client on Creative Cow - check out the third entry here - many thanks Nick!
Your multilingual typesetting's EXACTLY what I need! – what next?
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