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 — matched fonts, 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 →