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A UK-based company offering professional DTP services to translation companies and companies requiring a DTP service.

• Over twenty years experience in providing a multi-language desktop publishing (DTP) service to translation companies using leading DTP and word-processing applications for both PC and Apple Macintosh platforms.
  
  
• We compare your source files with the associated translations, and from these produce localised language versions using the original application. If requested, we will also generate PDF files for viewing or printing
  
  
• As an additional service, we check the integrity of the content, layout and structure of your source files by examining the use of style sheets, page sizing, margins, automatic cross-references, table of contents, index, and the format/placement of graphics.
  
  
• We take extreme care to ensure that the highest standards are maintained throughout each stage in the DTP cycle. The cycle includes pre- and post-validation DTP, quality assurance corrections, and final hand-off.

Selection of Projects

Here is a selection of projects completed over the past ten years. You will appreciate that we cannot identify projects with clients because confidentiality agreements are always respected.

• Preparation of training material using PowerPoint involving several hundred slides in five languages for a leading car manufacturer.
  
  
• DTP in FrameMaker of automotive manuals in several European languages.
  
  
• DTP in FrameMaker of large technical manuals for an international computer-aided design company.
  
  
• Major DTP projects in FrameMaker and Word comprising a large number of user manuals in 20 Western and Eastern European languages for a leading IT company.
  
  
• DTP in GlobalView of 1000-page user manuals in French, Italian, German and Spanish for a USA medical company.
  
  
• Editing the source and DTP in Spanish and Italian 4,000 pages of accountancy system manuals using AmiPro and Visio.
  
  
• Editing and DTP in Word of user and technical manuals for a German manufacturing company.
  
  
• Writing and formatting user manuals in PageMaker for Apple Mac on Video Telephony for the European Commission RACE Project 1995.
  
  
• DTP in Ventura of user manuals for leading PC manufacturers in French, Italian, German and Spanish plus Scandinavian languages, Portuguese and Dutch.
  
  
• Editing the source and DTP the language versions of all manuals for a French company marketing an integral fax system.
  
  
• DTP in FrameMaker of user manuals for accountancy software company in Spanish and Czech.
  
  
• DTP in FrameMaker UNIX version of training manuals for a major European car hire company in six European languages.
  
  
• DTP in Ventura of thousands of pages of operations and maintenance manuals for an automotive company in French, Italian, German and Spanish plus Scandinavian languages, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek.
  
  
• Editing and DTP in Word for DOS and GEM of four major training course packages including manuals and OHP slides for Groupe Bull in France and Germany. Thousands of pages and slides in French, German, Italian and Dutch.
  
  
• Editing and DTP of all user documentation for French company Copernique.