By now everyone knows that vaccines are in circulation and are expected to blunt (hopefully eventually end) the adverse impacts of the pandemic of 2020. If this fact alone is not enough to brighten the outlook for business as we enter 2021, our list below highlights five additional items for optimism. 1) Pre-pandemic demand for […]
Who is the final arbiter in the process of preparing translated materials? Is it the customer or the translator hired to perform the work? If the issue is one of authority, the customer of course has the ultimate discretion concerning a translation they use operationally. The logic of customers is sometimes subject to question when […]
Some businesses have already wound down their translation and other language services activities for 2020. Others may still have needs arise before the end of the year and require help. For this reason we remain open and operational through most of the year end holiday season, except for Christmas Eve/Day and New Year’s Eve/Day. The […]
Among today’s project deliveries is one of approximately 60 Adobe Illustrator files. Our client for this project has operations in several countries where Asian languages are spoken. Numerous technical drawings originally prepared in English required translation into 2 prominent Asian languages. The entire project required translation of more than 40,000 words. Some of the Illustrator […]
Is it necessary to provide the entire InDesign file set in order to receive a quote for translation of InDesign documents? No, not at all. It’s much easier than that to receive a quote for translation services for InDesign files. In order to quote InDesign translation projects we need only to receive the PDF export […]
So here’s a fairly common type of request for video translation services. A customer emails or call us with a video they have. The video contains English language spoken audio and they want to have the equivalent audio in Spanish dubbed in over the English. This is a straightforward sort of project and the steps […]
