Every once in a while I have the need to provide a design in a language other than English. With a global economy and the Internet, I suspect the need arises more often than it ever used to. In the past, local translation services generally yielded a Word file full of unformatted text, or an Illustrator file with the fonts converted to paths. Fortunately, document translation services have greatly improved and make for a powerful addition to your design arsenal.
I’m happy to announce The Graphic Mac’s latest advertiser, WorldAccent. If you need a document translated to another language, WorldAccent can surely help.
This London-based translation service with a global client base has more than 20 years’ experience in a vast range of languages. Spanish, French, German, Italian, of course. Also Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek. And Arabic, Chinese, Thai, Hindi, Korean. You name it, they’ve probably done it in some form, whether for text output or for print or web publication.
They also understand that translation is not just about text, it’s about type. With an unrivalled range of fonts, understanding of multilingual typographic conventions and technical expertise, they ensure that it’s not just the letter that’s translated, but also the look.
In short, WorldAccent’s success is built on three core strengths:
Linguistic expertise
- Global network of professional mother-tongue translators
- Understanding of style, nuance and cultural appropriateness
Typographic expertise
- Extensive range of fonts in many languages
- Knowledge of typographic conventions
Technical expertise
- Use of translation memory and text extraction software for greater speed, accuracy and reliability, and to ensure a seamless workflow
- Understanding of font codings, conversions and keyboards
- Ability to work from a wide range of text formats (Word, Powerpoint, html etc) or graphic files (InDesign, Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop etc)
Many thanks to WorldAccent for support The Graphic Mac, and if you have the need for translation services, I hope you choose WorldAccent.