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Children’s books into Karen by Star Bright Books

September 28, 2011
Sylvie Shen
Foreign Language Typesetting, Translation Management

As an independent publishing company dedicated to the highest quality children books, Star Bright Books chose wintranslation™ for Karen translation and typesetting. They provided to wintranslation the English InDesign files. The final deliverable is in outlined EPS formats which turned Karen language text into high resolution graphics. See a bilingual…

Special scripts in desktop publishing

August 12, 2010
Foreign Language Typesetting

Now that most of the desktop publishing applications support Unicode, typesetting multilingual documents is easier and some typesetters can do it without too much effort. Professional desktop publishers are now able to place Chinese, or Korean, or Amharic text into InDesign or QuarkXPress, even if they do not have the specific language versions or understand the language.

Punctuation by Languages

August 12, 2010
Foreign Language Typesetting

Being born in Eastern Europe, about two countries North of Greece, I thought that Greek language and alphabet can’t surprise me too much. I knew that the Greek alphabet was a special one, but I didn’t expect the punctuation to be so different (compared to what European and American countries are currently using).

A few things to think about when asking for a typesetting quote

August 12, 2010
Foreign Language Typesetting

You want to translate and typeset your company’s brochure into let’s say French, Chinese, and Arabic. You’ve called a translation company and they’ve started to ask you lots of questions. Some of them are about translation and you’ve been prepared to answer these inquiries, but others are about typesetting.

Designing for a non-English audience

August 12, 2010
Foreign Language Typesetting

Having worked as a digital publishing specialist at a large corporation at my previous job, I did not think being in charge of foreign language typesetting would be too difficult. After all, the layout and the images are already prepared and I only need to flow in the text - how hard could that be? I was sure that a simple Copy and Paste, or text importation, would do everything. This was my point of view when I initially began managing DTP projects in different languages.