A Perfect Guide On Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services

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A Perfect Guide on Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services
1. What is Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
2. Typesetting/Layout/Formatting in multiple languages
3. Our Core DTP Services includes the following
4. When to choose Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
5. Benefits of Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
6. Conclusion

1. What is Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
It offers an integrated translation and typesetting solution for establishments, interested in producing high quality foreign linguistic publications or graphics for web or print or distribution circulation.

2. Typesetting/Layout/Formatting in multiple languages

Business around the world need to give communications in the native language of their global customers, business partners, and employees. Layout is generally the last phase of a typical translation project, and what gives it a final appearance. No matter how good the quality of the translation may be, even a small layout error can dramatically impact how users perceive the product or brand.
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... Labs’, with production centres in Eastern Europe and Asia, provides multilingual desktop publishing (DTP) Services in all World languages. We work with Western languages (like French, Dutch, German, Portuguese), languages that use non-western scripts (like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai), languages that use bi-directional scripts (like Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi) and Indic languages (like Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil etc).

3. Our Core DTP Services includes the following
• Multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP) services and graphics localization (including AODA compliance)
• Format conversion (PDF to Word/PDF to InDesign/Quark to InDesign)
• Localization of e-learning content
• File preparation/ Engineering
• Book layout/typesetting/formatting (including co-edition layout)
• OCR/Scanning/Data Entry/Keying-in/Proofreading (all languages)
• Image Manipulation/Photo Editing/Vectorization
• We work with a number of translation agencies worldwide, including most of the top 20. References can be provided on request.
• We provide services in almost all software, including InDesign, FrameMaker, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Pagemaker, AutoCAD, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Office, Quicksilver/Interleaf, Articulate Storyline 2 & 3, Articulate 360, Presenter, Adobe Captivate, MadCap Flare, Macromedia Flash etc. In addition, we also have expertise in PDF to Word conversions.

4. Why to choose Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
• We have both legacy versions, as well as the most current versions of almost all software
• We offer a complete suite of languages we work with, including exotic languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi, and Indic languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi etc.
• We cover the full European time zone, and provide for a time overlap for US-based clients (weekends included). This results in unmatched speed-to-market in compliance with your time zone
• Non-disclosure (NDA) and Service Level Agreements (SLA) are signed and confidentiality is assured in all projects
• All our resources are in-house, and we do not sub-contract work to third-party vendors
• We assign a single point-of-contact account manager to all our clients
• Our staff members are certified professionals with more than 15 years of experience & technical know-how. We are known for successfully accomplishing even the most-demanding projects for our prestigious clients, well in time and within budget, while meeting international quality standards.

5. Benefits of Multilingual Desktop Publishing Services?
• Desktop Publishing Services are reasonably priced
• Desktop publishing is vital as a tool that improves communication by making possible to capably create printed and electronic online or onscreen documents, without the skill and costly equipment.
• Apart from the skilled graphic designers, freelancers, small business owners, club presidents and website owners utilise desktop publishing.
• The blend of reasonably priced software and desktop computers attracted people who had never been able to create their own publications.
• Desktop publishing software enables the user to reorganise graphics and text on screen, change typefaces, and resize graphics.
• Simply by adhering to a few rules of desktop publishing, users are able to turn out specialised-looking documents.

6. Conclusion
Multilingual desktop publishing services are usually one of the last phases in a localisation or translation project and include using the source language document or file to reproduce the design in the target language while carrying out all the needed technical and cultural versions.
The eventual objective of desktop publishing is to deliver a document that looks as if it were initially created in the target language.