Surely, the PDF (Portable Document Format) is one of the most used in your day to day. It was developed by Adobe Systems and is one of the current standards for digital documentation. Thanks to its robustness, its compatibility with any operating system, the possibility to include multimedia elements, or digitally sign or encrypt the document, it has managed to increase its popularity over the years. But it is also a format that limits the user’s ability to modify document …
Month: November 2020
You may have read several times about the quality of translations completed by professionals. But have you ever stopped to think about how it’s achieved? In this article, we’ll discuss quality control, the tools that can help, and what its advantages are. What is it? Translation quality control consists of error detection with the help of software tools, and this is done before it is delivered or published. Spelling is checked, and multiple spaces, word repetitions, punctuation errors, and terminological or …
In Spain we have a great presence of international tourism. In fact, in 2017, we had 82 million tourists from other countries. With this data up our sleeve, it’s logical to think that an online presence of tourism companies is vitally important. And even more so if their websites are properly adapted to other languages thanks to the efforts of a translation agency. Why adapt your tourism texts to other languages? If you have or run a restaurant, a hotel, …
The translation of fiction is one of the areas of translation work that is most interesting. Would you like to know how to undertake literature translation and what the most recommendable strategies for success are? What is literature translation? It is the translation of pieces in different formats and ensuring that the translation is dynamic and follows the same pace as the original piece. Amongst the different pieces of fiction to be translated, there are the following types. Comics This …
Today, with so many streaming platforms, we are used to seeing series and films with subtitles. This is a world in which, perhaps, you don’t stop to think about the challenging “hidden” task: the translation of the subtitles. Subtitle translation is a task that has a series of strategies and curiosities that we are sure you will love to learn about like, for example, what happens with vernacular languages and dialectsin the world of subtitle translation. Sit back, relax, and let …