Bloomberg Businessweek came up with an interesting article today called 'Cloudy With a Chance of Globalization'. What attracted our editor's attention was a chart with projections on US Sotware Market Growth for 2011-2020,...

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It has been long discussed whether machine translation (MT) is reliable and if MT can replace "human translation" in the near future. As this blog shows, MT is not a good solution for "quick translation," especially if critical...

Nearly every customer finds themselves in the embarrassing situation of not having a critical source file for translation in the appropriate desktop publishing (DTP) format. Sometimes, all that is available is a PDF file...

Most Arabic online users or Arabic residents in the UAE are bilingual; they are able to read both the Arabic language and the English language. This means that you’ll have to “think like them” and “speak their languages” to...

Some clients expect to send out a source file and then step out of the translation process; however, it is their involvement in the translation, specifically the review process, that ensures that the most accurate and effective...

Customers new to translation ask us what they need to provide in order to get an accurate quote for project cost and scope. You will need to provide the same items to your translation company for a quotation that you would...

Adobe InDesign is a rich and powerful publishing tool, and is one of the most popular source document formats for marketing materials translated into other languages. Unfortunately, many InDesign users have not mastered some...

In recent years, the economic and trade cooperation between China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has led to smooth development. In fact, the number of Chinese visitors to the UAE increased by 58 percent in 2010. The...

Adobe Acrobat is used in a variety of ways in language translation projects. Perhaps its most common use is to enable specifically annotated PDF files which indicate required changes to documents after the language translation...

Many articles or blogs on language translation recommend localizing text to be as specific as possible for your locale. The Spanish language (possibly the world’s third most widely spoken language) is often an exception, due to...

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“Real” tables have been available in InDesign for years, and they can automatically increase cell/row depth and adjust line breaks within table cells to minimize billable, post-translation format correction.