The design application InDesign is often used by our clients, and sometimes these InDesign documents require translation into various languages. InDesign documents are sometimes promotional pieces, reports such as corporate annual reports, and guide documents, to mention a few categories of designed documents that come to mind. When a document already exists in InDesign it […]
Website translations can presented to translators for translation in different ways. Whatever the select method, text is provided to a translator and they begin and continue working through a project. Some clients will provide translators with website text in a MS Word file after it’s been extracted from their website. MS Word is close to being […]
When we’re tasked with translation projects from first time clients, seldom do they provide a list of preferred key terminology translations or a translation memory. In the vast majority of cases the project schedule is more important to them than consistency with past translations or with preferred terminology. When we do not receive preferred terminology lists […]
Travelers sometimes need medical attention when abroad. Whether in Spanish speaking countries or others, records of medical treatment received outside the US must sometimes be translated for insurance purposes on return. This is one type of medical translation requests that translation companies receive. Medical tourism is another occasion when translation of medical records is requested. […]
One of the best ways to increase confidence in the services of a translation company is to learn more about their translation process. Knowledge of a translation vendor’s processes, including quality control measures such as post-translation proofreading by a second translator, make translation services less of a black box and put consumers of translation services more in touch with […]
After questions about translation costs, the second most frequently asked question by translation clients has to do with project schedules. “How long will it take?” clients ask. How Quickly Do Translators Work? On an average basis we find that professional translators will competently process in the range of 2000-3000 words per day. Then if proofreading by […]
