What is DTP?

 

How to edit a document after translation? Documents of various contents of companies advancing overseas include contracts written in general MS-Word documents, general business documents such as business plans, product manuals, proposals, company profiles, research reports, medical thesis, insurance terms, and various documents. In general, when translating a completed original documents, translation company informs the customer of additional details about the DTP work after translation.

Except in special cases, most translation companies will proceed DTP work. So, what is DTP? DTP (Desktop Publishing) literally means working on publications on a computer. When it comes to publications, you might think of printed books in the form of books, brochures, and material books. You can think of it as editorial design as a whole, from general word documents to design brochures.

In translation projects, DTP work is a process of translating various original documents such as PPT, Word, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustration, and post-editing while maintaining the same layout as the original document. The goal is to keep the visual elements that can change according to the nature of the language as you go through the translation, consistent across versions of all languages. Professional translation companies use DTP to make the translated document identical to the original document. A small translation company may not have a separate DTP team. So, translation companies work with a separate editorial design company, or the design department of the company that commissioned them. At a professional translation company, the DTP team can handle various editing tools, and if there is an internal DTP team, it can reflect the characteristics of the language through work sharing with the translation team to ensure that the text is placed correctly in the layout or where errors and omissions may occur. Do you need DTP work after translation? Working with DTP in translation is different from typical document editing design, which can lead to the following issues: 1) Sentence Length: This is the part that has the greatest impact. Sentence length may vary after translation. For example, if the original text is in English, translation into another language may increase the length of the text. This is commonly referred to as text expansion, and translation is a bit more complicated than collapsing text.

If the text is too long, the layout of the entire design is bound to be distorted. In most cases, the DTP team can make adjustments, but if there is no room in the original design itself, we will ask the translator again to reduce the text without changing the meaning. 2) Font: Fonts are a very important part of the visual element. However, many fonts do not support fonts for different languages. For example, even relatively similar languages, such as English, French, and Spanish, have different special characters, limiting common fonts.

So, when creating multilingual documents, editorial designers find and apply similar fonts for each language. 3) Localization: Localization is the creation of content to suit the language and culture of the target country. Consumers viewing translated content want to tailor content to consumers in their country. For consumers, it is important that a company or brand cares about them.

In translation, DTP is also looking at the cultural aspect of the country. It should be designed so that it can be easily viewed by local consumers in accordance with the design of documents they see on a daily basis, such as icon display, unit display of product specifications, and natural text reading. This not only provides an ability to read and understand the language, it also gives the impression that the document was created in the local language from scratch rather than translated.

 How might I’M Translation and ISiS Korea aid translation and DTP?

At I’M Translation and ISiS Korea, we can connect you with a professional translators and interpreters as well as DTP services. We have over 30+ languages available on our platform and we are flexible and available regardless of the language pair, topic, and time zone. Please visit us at www.imtranslation.com and www.isiskorea.com/eng to request a free translation and interpretation quote. Thank you!