Consumers of document translation services are increasingly aware that some translation services use automated technologies such as machine translation. Other translation service providers (including our company) adhere strictly to the more traditional tried-and-true method of assigning native speaking human linguists. Given a choice between the two, would any informed person prefer machine translation over human […]
Translation of Adobe InDesign documents are among the favorite projects we undertake. InDesign translation projects require both language and advanced InDesign formatting skills. Some InDesign translation projects can be especially large and complex. This week saw the completion of a sizable InDesign translation project that was performed over a period of 5 weeks. Some descriptive […]
Most all document translation projects that come to us arrive in electronic files of some type. The text might be associated with a website, instructional materials, or somehow not strictly tied to a stand-alone document in its final form. Collectively virtually all translation project are performed within the structure of a document file regardless of […]
What should a translation company client expect when they hire an organization to translate text for elearning materials? Is there a difference between what’s expected and what they actually receive? In our experience clients should expect the following: A defined procedure, including quality assurance checks, in the translation process. Qualified native speaking professional linguists assigned […]
Affinity Translation performs and delivers online document translation services on a regular basis. The file formats of translation source material for document translation can be virtually any common file format including the following: 1. MS Word files. Word files are often received for legal documents, manuals, and sometimes basic brochures that don’t contain elaborate formatting. […]
Attach and email us your document in virtually any language or file format. We’ll email them back to you in your specified target language. Translation Workflow Does the above approach to translate documents online sound like it might be for you? Here how our company’s document translation workflow process goes. The entire process is completed […]
