Multilingual desktop publishing
Typesetting in over 130 languages since 2005. Everything in-house. Nothing subcontracted, one person accountable for the file, the security and the deadline.
What I produce
- Brochures, leaflets, posters and information sheets
- Technical manuals and user guides
- Health and insurance forms, member handbooks and benefit documents
- Packaging, labels and instructions for use
- Stationery, logos and advertising material
- Presentations and e-learning assets
Specialist services
PDF re-creation
The source files are missing, and the client needs a translated version of a document that exists only as a PDF. I rebuild it with matched fonts and matched layout, ready to publish.
Animated video localization
Subtitling, SRT creation, and on-screen text replacement in animated video, including projects where no source project files survive. See the Spanish animated video case study.
Logo transliteration and design
Rendering a wordmark in another script while keeping the structure, weight and character of the original design.
Fillable and accessible PDFs
Interactive forms with tooltips and export values; large-print and accessible alternate formats.
Pre-translation file preparation
Cleaning and structuring documents before they go to a translator, so what comes back can actually be laid out.
OCR
Converting handwritten or printed material into editable, translatable text.
Scripts and languages
Right-to-left (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto). CJK. Indic and South-East Asian scripts, including Khmer, Thai, Burmese and Tamil. Canadian Indigenous languages including Cree and Oji-Cree syllabics, Inuktitut, Michif, Mohawk and Algonquin.
The full list of over 130 languages →
Software and file formats
Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, FrameMaker and PageMaker. Microsoft Word with VBA, PowerPoint and Excel. Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Acrobat Pro and CorelDRAW. Captivate and Articulate for e-learning. Working on both macOS and Windows.
The full software list and the file formats I accept and return →
If you have a file nobody else will touch, that is usually the job I get called for: an old QuarkXPress document, a FrameMaker book, a PDF with no surviving source.
