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Reads right and works right

A translation that works as well as it reads

A translation can read perfectly and still fail you. The words are right, but the InDesign file no longer fits the page. Or one term in a device manual means something slightly different in the target market, and now your instructions are wrong. The reader does not notice the effort behind the document. They notice the one thing that broke.

That gap shows up most in the documents you cannot afford to get wrong: a clinical protocol, a financial filing, a legal contract, a technical spec. These are not blog posts. A loose phrase or a misplaced figure carries a real cost, from a compliance flag to a recall to a deal that stalls.

Format and terminology decide the outcome

Two things go wrong, and both are mechanical. First, the file format gets flattened. A designed brochure, a Quark layout, or a MadCap Flare project carries structure that a plain copy-paste workflow destroys, so you pay to rebuild the page. Second, the terminology drifts. Engineering, medicine, and finance each have a fixed vocabulary, and a translator without that field's terms will pick a reasonable-sounding word that an expert reader will catch in a second.

Machine output and general-purpose translators tend to produce both problems at once: a file that needs reformatting and copy that needs a specialist's correction. You end up checking the work you paid someone else to finish.

The mechanism

Translation that stays inside your file and your field

We translate inside the format you already use, so the document comes back ready to publish instead of ready to rebuild. Our team works natively in Adobe InDesign (INDD), QuarkXPress (QXP), and MadCap Flare (FLPRJ), along with the formats those tools export and import: PDF, HTML, XML, SVG, EPS, TXT, RTF, tagged text, and XPress Tags. Flare projects keep their topics, tables of contents, targets, skins, snippets, and glossaries. Your design and your structure survive the move.

Terminology is locked down by a cloud database holding millions of industry terms across 120+ languages. A linguist who already knows your field translates the meaning, then checks each term against that approved bank, so the same part, drug, or clause reads the same way in every file and every market. That is how a manual or a contract stays correct, not just fluent.

Built for the documents that matter most

Different fields fail in different ways, so the work is set up around each one:

  • Medical and life sciences: IFUs, patient consent forms, device manuals, and clinical protocols translated by specialists, with both text and imagery adapted, for pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare, biotech, and CRO clients.
  • Legal: contracts, GDPR documents, patent applications, and regulatory filings handled with jurisdiction-specific knowledge across 120+ languages, behind multiple layers of confidentiality.
  • Financial: banking statements, balance sheets, investor reports, and training manuals in major European and Asian languages, with desktop publishing so the numbers and the format both meet presentation standards.
  • Technical: engineering specifications, manufacturing documentation, and technical manuals translated by domain specialists and checked through staged review, because a documentation error can affect operational safety.

Files move smoothly because the workflow connects to the tools you author in, including Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, InDesign, and Google Docs.

Speed you can trust

Fast turnaround with every quality check in place

Urgent jobs come back in hours, not weeks. A cloud-based translation memory speeds the linguists by reusing what you have already approved, and operations run across time zones so a project does not sit overnight waiting for the next region to wake up. Quality control still runs at every stage, so speed does not cost you accuracy. The whole process meets ISO 9001 quality standards.

Two questions worth asking before you publish: are there errors hiding in content you cannot read, and could you reach a new market as fast as you reach your home one? A third-party review answers the first. Multilingual content answers the second.

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From a single contract to an entire documentation set, our professional translation services return every file publish-ready in 120+ languages, with the layout intact and the terminology verified.

Layout intact, terms verified

Send us your file in its original format and tell us the field. We will return a publish-ready translation with the layout intact and the terminology verified.