Tag: DTP

Some Challenges of DTP

Some Challenges of DTP

By Sarah-Claire Jordan DTP, or desktop publishing, refers to the process of creating professional quality printed documents with a personal computer and a DTP program, as opposed to having a professional service do it for you. It has revolutionized the way we create printed documents now, as we don’t have to rely on expensive services […]

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Why Is It So Important to Translate Training Material?

Why Is It So Important to Translate Training Material?

[ 0 ] February 25, 2016 |

By Sarah-Claire Jordan Being in charge of a company can be one of the most stressful things to deal with, but it can also be one of the most rewarding positions. Once you get to a certain level with your company, you can start to expand internationally. Expanding internationally means more than just making sure […]

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What do DTP Experts Actually Do?

What do DTP Experts Actually Do?

[ 0 ] September 7, 2015 |

By Sarah-Claire Jordan Maybe you’ve come across this acronym before, and thought to yourself, what in the world is this? Probably another one of those marketing or tech terms. That’s not entirely false, actually, as DTP stands for desktop publishing, an expertise that has become essential in this time of business globalization and the subsequent […]

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Why DTP is crucial

Why DTP is crucial

[ 0 ] April 16, 2014 |

Depending on the expansion or compression rate of each language combination, the length of translated text is different from the length of the original. It can get longer or shorter, depending on the language combination, and so the layout of the translated document does not perfectly match that of the original. If a paragraph gets […]

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Does your Translation need DTP?

Does your Translation need DTP?

[ 0 ] April 16, 2014 |

You need a document translated but you are not sure what will happen with the formatting once it is translated. Your translated document may need DTP. DTP (desktop publishing) in translation means formatting documents after they are translated. The scope of DTP varies widely, with some projects requiring no DTP at all and others requiring […]

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Using DTP for Restaurant Menus

Using DTP for Restaurant Menus

[ 0 ] April 11, 2014 |

Southeast Asia is certainly the home of exoticism; with enormous, highly populated cities surrounded by tropical forests, and further away, paradisiacal beaches. While Thailand is popular in its own right, Vietnam offers Western tourists respite in its use of a Latin script for the Vietnamese language. Pollution and heat provide a grimy coating to the […]

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DTP: Providing Modernity, Artistry, and Multilingualism

DTP: Providing Modernity, Artistry, and Multilingualism

[ 0 ] March 17, 2014 |

After a talk with the office manager, the secretary mechanically and less than enthusiastically, reaches for the third drawer where the sticky notes reside. A grumble can be heard, as the memory of their adhesiveness returns, the ground below the message board being littered in old sticky notes. While the note is being filled out, […]

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