Affinity Translation Blog

December 8, 2020

So here's a fairly common type of request for video translation…

December 2, 2020

The events leading to the challenging business environment of…

November 4, 2020

Every year we have various documents of all sizes and subjects…

November 2, 2020

According to a recently published McKinsey & Company article,…

October 15, 2020

Adobe InDesign is a popular desktop publishing application with…

October 6, 2020

We’re a language services (e.g., translation) company to be…

September 29, 2020

When a client comes to us for translation services it's often…

September 25, 2020

Someone asks "what do you do for a living?" The quick response,…

September 24, 2020

First off what's meant by the words "video translation"? At our…

Business Outlook and TimeJanuary 15, 2021 - 9:55 am
The answer to the question “So how is business?” depends on the period of time being referenced. The time frame could be last year, this month, this quarter, or any specified time. For businesses struggling with uncertainty in a challenging economy, an even better metric might be “the next two to three years”, or possibly […]
Rush Translation Services and ProjectsJanuary 14, 2021 - 12:53 pm
What is meant by the phrase “rush translation services“? Does it mean that translators work faster? For the sake of translation quality we hope not. Some translation companies offer rush services. Translation customers sometimes ask if we offer rush services. Our company doesn’t charge an extra fee for expedited translation services. Instead our policy is […]
Desktop Publishing Software for TranslationJanuary 8, 2021 - 1:01 pm
By far the most prevalently used software for desktop publishing among documents we receive for translation is Adobe InDesign. Sometimes Adobe Illustrator is used designing smaller documents with fewer pages. We have infrequently received documents created in QuarkXPress and Microsoft Publisher. Still InDesign leads the list. When we’re asked to quote translation services for InDesign […]