About me
Multilingual Desktop Publishing
I can localize documents in any language, be they Central European, double-byte character languages such as Chinese, or right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew.
IAM capable of working on both PCs as well as MACs, and employ state-of-the-art multilingual graphics and publishing software. I with Framemaker, Interleaf/Quicksilver, InDesign, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, AutoCAD etc.
Translation of documents from one language to another has substantial impact on the graphical layout of documents. For example:
Documents translated from English to languages such as French, Spanish, Italian etc. expand in word count, and require more space or smaller font size.
German and Russian words can be dozens of characters long, requiring re-sizing of graphics and menu items.
Middle Eastern languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi change the order of layout because they are written right to lef
Skills
Desktop Publishing, Editorial Design