Desktop publishing software

Documentation is an important part in localisation projects, and usually contains the largest amount of words of all material. The most efficient way to present these texts is by using desktop publishing software that allows to present text, graphics and images on a way that is attractive to the user. For over two years now, I have been working with the following packages:

 

- Adobe Indesign CS:

- Authoring of user manuals and documentation
- Creating and applying master pages
- Using styles
- Generating table of contents
- Placing graphics
- Automatically exporting content using Story Collector for Indesign and reimporting after translation
- Updating links, producing PDF and managing fonts

 

- Adobe PageMaker 7:

- Creating and applying master pages
- Using styles
- Placing graphics
- Automatically exporting content using Story Collector for PageMaker and reimporting after translation
- Updating links, producing PDF and managing fonts

 

- Quark XPress 6 Passport:

- Creating and applying master pages
- Using styles
- Placing graphics
- Automatically exporting content using Story Collector for Quark Xpress and reimporting after translation
- Updating links, producing PDF and managing fonts

 

- Corel Draw 11:

- Creating and applying master pages
- Placing graphics
- Automatically exporting to RTF for translation
- Updating links, producing PDF and managing fonts
- DTP on double-byte character set and right-to-left languages
- Converting text to curves to prepare files for printing

 

- Adobe FrameMaker 7:

- Basic book management
- Saving files as MIF for processing with Trados S-Tagger and reverting RTFs to MIF
- Preparing processed RTF files for translation
- Fixing tag problems during conversion
- Updating links, producing PDF and managing fonts