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DTP stands for Desktop Publishing. This service includes page layout, typesetting and graphic design provided by our internal graphic designers.
DTP is particularly useful when a translated document will be published or printed. But it can also be useful when the translated document is a PowerPoint or PDF file. With this service, you can be sure your final document will look very similar to the original.
Our team always recreates a translated document so it matches the original file. However, they will often need to make adaptations because of differences among languages. Certain languages like English use fewer words than languages like French or Portuguese. Other languages have especially long words like German or Russian. This is what’s known as expansion and contraction factors, respectively.
It’s also important to consider languages that are written from right to left such as Arabic and Hebrew, or those that are character-based, like Chinese and Japanese. All these linguistic specificities require adjustments to the layout that impact graphic elements, fonts, available space, etc.
To make sure you get the results you expect, DTP work needs to be done or reviewed by experts who understand the language used in the document because they will be better able to detect errors in hyphenation, missing text, etc.
Our DTP specialists have experience with a wide variety of graphic design programs to handle all design needs. We also take care of layout in other software like PowerPoint.
We have created a special process for translation projects that include InDesign files:
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