Why do businesses hire translation companies? We thought it would be interesting to list some of the reasons (as far as we can tell). In our attempt to better understand the reasons business clients engage with translation companies, we reviewed the last 10 translation projects we’ve delivered to business clients. Based on this review below […]
Manuals of various categories are often prime candidates for translation services. Training manuals are one type of document we received from time to time for translation. Training manuals are generally defined as “a collection of instructions, designed to improve the quality of a performed task.” Training manuals are widely used by organizations including those commercial, […]
In the course of translating InDesign documents we typically direct attention in up to three categories of activity. Each are listed below. 1. TEXT TRANSLATION / LOCALIZATION The most basic category of activity is translation of the InDesign document’s standard text. In this process InDesign document text content is professionally translated into virtually any language a […]
Translation of eLearning materials of a variety of types is a common category of content that comes our way as a translation company. At the most basic level we are generally called on to translate one of two things when it comes to eLearning content. It’s either printed language or spoken language. Expanding the activity […]
In a translation project for Articulate Storyline courses there can be numerous steps along the way to reaching a completed course translation. Each course is unique and may contain a variety of elements and steps in the translation process to completion. In addition to translated standard course text there can be: 1) graphics with embedded […]
We are often asked about how much time will be needed to translate a client’s documents. When it’s the first question a new client asks then the answer is something like “well that depends on the scope of the project (i.e., how much translation, by word count or other metric, is needed?). So what […]
