■About us Xinyitong Translation
Multilingual
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
We
provide customers with high-quality DTP services and competitive
prices. The following languages are supported:
- Simplified
Chinese
- Traditional
Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
- English
- German
- French
Questions
and Answers about DTP
Do
you prepare localized manuals for printing?
|
Yes.
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Are
all DTP staff familiar with 2-3 DTP tools?
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Yes.
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What
Languages can your DTP Department support?
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Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai,
English, German and French
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Do
your DTP Specialists have a good understanding of English?
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All
DTP engineers are native language speakers and can
understand English.
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How
do you determine the work load for each DTP specialist?
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We
charge based on page count. The delivery schedule is based
on our availability and your request.
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Do
you support Macintosh?
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Yes.
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Do
you usually work with pre-defined templates for MS word?
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Yes,
defining the MS Word template is the first step for Word
document DTP.
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Who
prepare the screen captures?
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This
depends on the client's request. It can be either the client
or our software engineers.
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Do
you usually prepare a checklist? if yes, who prepares it?
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Yes,
the DTP Manager.
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Do
you have criteria for target langauge DTP format?
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Yes.
" XINYITONG Localization Style and DTP
Standard."
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Who
prepares the postscript files?
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The
DTP Engineer
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Who
signs off before final delivery?
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The
QA manager and DTP manager
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Supported
applications and versions (both English and Localized versions), and
our level of expertise.
Application
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Platform
|
Version
# of Localized Application
|
Version
# of English Application
|
Number
of DTP Specialists
|
Excellent
|
Good
|
FrameMaker
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
7.0/6.0
|
6
|
X
|
-
|
Ventura
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
8.0
|
3
|
-
|
X
|
PageMaker
|
Win9x/2000
|
6.0/6.5
|
6.5
|
5
|
X
|
-
|
Quark
Xpress
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
3.0/4.0
|
5
|
X
|
-
|
Adobe
Illustrator
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
10.0/9.0/8.0
|
6
|
X
|
-
|
Adobe
PhotoShop
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
6.0/5.0
|
6
|
X
|
-
|
Freehand
|
Win9x/2000
|
-
|
8.0/9.0
|
3
|
X
|
-
|
CorelDraw
|
Win9x/2000
|
8.0
|
9.0/10.0
|
4
|
X
|
-
|
MS-Office
|
Win9x/2000
|
95/97/2000
|
95/97/2000
|
9
|
X
|
-
|
Publisher
|
Win2000
|
8.0
|
8.0
|
4
|
X
|
-
|
Interleaf
|
NA
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
DocMaker
|
Win98/NA
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Director
|
Win98/2000
|
8.0/2000
|
-
|
4
|
X
|
-
|
WordPerfect
|
NA
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
FrontPage
|
Win9x/2000
|
98/2000
|
-
|
5
|
X
|
-
|
Dreamweaver
|
Win9x
|
3.0/4.0
|
-
|
5
|
X
|
-
|
Others
to be added
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Expertise
in FrameMaker
(Support
FrameMaker to HTML Converson)
Itemized
skill set
|
Excellent
|
Good
|
Some
Experience
|
Generation
of book file, TOC, LOF, LOT, other generated lists
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Localization
of paragraph/character styles for Chinese
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Setting
up combined font properties for Chinese
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Setting
up references
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Localization
of index markers
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Localization
of reference page (for TOC, LOF, and other generated lists)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Work
with HTML mapping table, HTML macro (markers)
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Localization
of auto-numbering format
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Localization
of variables
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Using
conditional text settings
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Localization
of cross-reference formats
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Updating
cross-references
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Fixing
unresolved cross-references
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Localization
of call-outs
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Expertise
in Adobe Acrobat
Itemized
skill set
|
Excellent
|
Good
|
Some
Experience
|
Using
PDF writer and Distiller (including compression, down
sample, and bugs with EPS)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Distilling
PostScript files
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Listing
names of PPDs
|
-
|
X
|
-
|
Setting
up Distiller (including all compression, down sample, and
color settings)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Converting
from other applications*
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Setting
up bookmark settings
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Manual
creation of links and bookmarks
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Insertion
and deletion of pages
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Cropping
pages
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Asian
language PDF (which language?)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Use
of note tools (place notes, import/export notes)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Expertise
in HTML and XML
Itemized
skill
set
|
Excellent
|
Good
|
Some
Experience
|
Manual
editing of tags
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Knowledge
of all tags
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Saving
HTML files with correct encoding (especially Simplified and
Traditional Chinese)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
HTML
conversions
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Knowledge
of supported character encoding*
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
HTML
QA
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Expertise
in Photoshop
Itemized
skill set
|
Excellent
|
Good
|
Some
Experience
|
Color
table (load, apply, save, extract, web-safe .act files)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Color
mode (index, RGB, CMYK, etc)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Transparency
(GIF, EPS file with clipping path)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Anti-aliases
and aliases text
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Working
with layers
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Channels
(save, load, use as selection tool)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Knowledge
of RGB working space issues (Photoshop 5 and up)
|
X
|
-
|
-
|
Use
of action palette
|
X
|
-
|
-
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Other
DTP Service Areas
|
YES
|
NO
|
Note
|
Postscripting
|
X
|
-
|
|
Font
troubleshooting
|
X
|
-
|
|
Color
Separation
|
X
|
-
|
|
Film
output
|
X
|
-
|
|
HTML
conversion
|
X
|
-
|
|
Hardcopy
material
|
X
|
-
|
|
Others
to be added
|
-
|
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Keywords: Chinese localization, Chinese translation service, Chinese
typesetting, English into Chinese, simplified Chinese, software
localization, traditional Chinese, translation into Chinese
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