Multilingual Digital Publishing Services
Andovar creates localized online and print-ready materials that truly reflect your brand – perfect in every detail, in over 100 languages.
Premium Multilingual Digital Publishing Services
High quality multilingual digital publishing can amplify your brand message. However, appealing to your multilingual customers requires more than translating words. The entire design demands localization, making the text, graphics, and layout native and culturally compelling to your target audience. Andovar provides expert desktop publishing services in over 80 languages in all major publishing tools. Our multilingual DTP solutions have helped companies excel in global markets across a variety of industries.
Text extraction
If your source is only available as a printed copy that does not allow editing, we can extract the text into editable files that work with specific DTP applications. We accomplish this through advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition). The extracted text then goes through a quality control check that includes a spell check.
Type setting
We transform the localized font, colors, images, white space, and other DTP elements to make the localized document as compelling as the original.
Layout creation
When necessary, we create a new layout that takes advantage of the target language’s unique features, such as mirroring the design for Arabic readers.
Quality assurance
Throughout the project, we analyze our efforts to ensure that it meets your specifications and our standards as defined by our Multilingual Quality Metrics Quality Assurance system. We then subject the completed design to a final QA by native-speaking professionals before releasing it to you.
Working Directly with Your Application's Source Files
If you use the following applications, we save time and avoid conversion errors by working directly with your source files.
Photoshop
PowerPoint
Illustrator
FrameMaker
Office
Solutions for Your Language and Industry
We rely on over 10,000 full-time and in-country professional translators located around the world. Our services cover over 200 language pairs in many kinds of industries. Our linguistic resources empower us to offer multilingual DTP services customized to your business and the language of your target audience.
Left to right languages
Most languages of the world are written from left to right, including those that use the Latin alphabet, Greek, Cyrillic, and Southeast Asian writing systems.
Right to left languages
Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu are examples of languages that flow from right to left.
Complex scripts
Languages with complex scripts include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Persian/Farsi, and Hindi.
Why Rely on Andovar for Multilingual Desktop Publishing?
Experienced desktop publishers
We’ve been localizing DTP since 2007, with over one billion words translated by over 10,000 translators. We reach the world from Singapore, the US, Hungary, Thailand, India, and Colombia.
Any publishing software
Our expertise covers software from such major brands as Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, and Quark. We can work with whatever DTP application you use on the Windows or Macintosh operating system.
Native QA
To ensure technical accuracy, cultural relevance, and audience interest, QA specialists who are native speakers of your language verify your project.
Frequently Asked Questions
For what do you use multilingual Desktop Publishing?
Multilingual DTP is primarily used when brochures, newsletters, eBooks, magazines, technical manuals, posters, presentations, and packaging labels are required in other languages. The process involves typesetting the newly localized content, localizing graphics, layout and more, to make the content as visually and culturally compelling as the original source content.
What one thing can a client do to make multilingual Desktop Publishing easier?
Bring Andovar to your project as early as possible. During the planning stages is ideal. We can then offer advice to make all your multilingual DTP projects easier.
For example, we could suggest that you keep as many of the native files as possible, including fonts and graphics. While the final printed product acts as a worthwhile goal, having the original files saves time and money. We avoid scanning a document, checking for errors, and converting to editable sources.
Is translation the same as localization?
Translation converts text from one language to another. It employs multiple techniques, such as machine translation from Google Translate, or human translation from a professional translator. Localization encompasses a more complex process that makes content understandable to a specific audience. Before a word is translated, localization starts by settling on the target language, country, industry, and audience.These specs then define how the target language is used, including the level of formality, whether a dialect is needed, the specialist industrial terms, what cultural references to include, and whether slang and colloquialisms are appropriate.translation then begins, acting as the foundation of the entire localization process. For example, if English is the target language: