Desktop Publishing Services (DTP)

Your brand’s identity is shaped by your marketing materials.

Brochures, catalogs, leaflets and magazines rely on visual and graphic elements to appeal to your customer base.

That’s where multilingual desktop publishing (DTP) comes in.

By adapting visual elements from the source language to the target language, DTP uses special software to ensure your brand’s identity doesn’t get lost in translation.

Let's transform your visuals from one language to another, the right way.

Our DTP team offer the following services:

Transformation and adaption of graphic layouts from the source language to the target language.
Reconstruction of non-editable text files (i.e., scanned papers, manuscripts, typewritten, and handwritten documents) to allow translators to translate them using CAT tools (Computer-Assisted Translation tools).
Text extraction from non-editable files.

How to know if your documents require DTP?

Check out the following list to see whether our DTP experts can help:

File Formats - Files like scanned PDF documents can’t be edited. Therefore, they require a DTP professional to make them editable. Our team of DTP experts has years of experience in working with projects in different formats.
Direction of Text - Languages aren’t all read in the same direction. A number of languages such as Arabic, Aramaic, Dhivehi/Maldivian, Hebrew, Kurdish (Sorani), Persian/Farsi, and Urdu are written from right to left. Whereas other languages such as Japanese and Mandarin use the top to bottom direction. It’s important that content translated into these languages is adjusted to maintain the same format as the original.
Contracted or Expanded Words - Languages like German, Spanish and French can increase the amount of content by up to 30% compared to the original English. Meanwhile, content translated into Chinese becomes shorter due to the logographic characters. Our DTP experts work their magic to ensure the original layout is maintained regardless of length.

Font Compatibility - Not all alphabets are compatible with all font styles. You can rely on the extensive experience and knowledge of our DTP experts when it comes to compatible fonts for the languages you require.
Graphics Editing/Manipulation - Our DTP pros apply their expert knowledge in working with software such as Adobe CC Suite, AutoCAD, QuarkXPress, etc., to edit and manipulate texts and images.