Whether you have a well-established presence in global markets or you are starting to target new international markets, we can help you with a range of multilingual typesetting services.
Our typesetting is performed in-house by specialist expert typesetters, this enables us provide a fast and reliable service to our clients. We will ensure professional presentation of translated media for publication in any language.
At DS5 Translations, we lead the way in providing comprehensive multilingual typesetting, these include:
- Formatting and layout of localized materials matching the original design and complying with target-language specifications.
- Final files can be supplied in either PDFs for print or web use or a press-ready package (with text converted to outlines)
- Each publication is checked by the translator for quality assurance
We can provide professional translation and typesetting in any language including European languages and Asian languages. We also provide services of all left to right languages such as Arabic typesetting and Hebrew typesetting.
What is Multilingual Typesetting?
Sometimes when translating publications from one language to another a layout adjustment is necessary to create a document ready to be printed or published. These are commonly known as Desktop Publishing or DTP and require experts who are aware of all the relevant rules to be followed for each language.
The amount of characters of a translated material tends to vary when translating to a foreign language, the difference can be up to 30% or more.
Each language also has specific rules that need to be applied when translating text . Languages such as Arabic text reads right to left and in fact the whole layout must reflect this directionality. Numerals within Arabic text read from left to right, even the text around them reads from right to left and text also needs to be justified. Our Arabic typesetting service will ensure your layout is correct for the Arabic language.
An experienced typesetter who is familiar with all of these nuances would therefore need to do the typesetting and editing of the font.
Translation of documents from one language to another also has a great impact on the layout of documents.
For example:
- Documents translated from English to languages such as French, Spanish, Italian have a larger word count, and require more space or smaller font size.
- German and Russian words can be dozens of characters long, requiring re-sizing of graphics and menu items.
- Middle Eastern languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi reads right to left and in fact the whole layout must reflect this directionality.
- Most European languages require modification of the numbers