Looking for multilingual desktop publishing and excellent DTP services? Look no further, ALM has been helping its clients produce content and documentation artwork since 2002. Multilingual typesetting services are needed if you need to produce a like for like multilingual version for:
- a page heavy product manual
- training videos with embedded text
- a presentation to a customer
- beautiful Adobe Indesign documents
- a complicated drawing that forms part of plans and proposals
- and to translate technical illustrations
Whether you need print-ready documents with crop marks or you need them to be downloadable from your website, ALM Translations’ multilingual desktop publishing and CAD services can help.
The right tool for the job – avoid costly errors
The aim of multilingual typesetting and CAD (Computer Aided Design) services is to produce like-for-like versions of your original documents. If you have technical manuals, ALM will assess the source files and the amount of work to be done on each page and image. This will give you a fixed fee with no nasty surprises. Some elements of technical manuals take additional time and work such as drawings and images. Images can be edited also if the RAW digital file is available, if this is not available ALM has workarounds to achieve your multilingual desktop publishing service requirements.
High-end marketing materials can also be translated in Indesign (idml) format to support your global marketing document translations, ALM has the translation tools to translate technical illustrations and your multilingual typesetting projects.
Whether you are looking for Adobe Indesign translation or translation of Framemaker files, these are all formats that are compatible with translation memories and CAT tools (translation memory tools). This means that you don’t spend time copying and pasting which can result in costly errors.
ALM’s multilingual desktop publishing (DTP) services are available in any language – as well as northern European languages, Eastern European languages such as Russian and Albanian typesetting services are available along with Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Supported file formats include:
- CAD (.dwg, .dxf files).
- Microsoft Publisher®,
- Adobe InDesign®,
- Adobe Illustrator®,
- Adobe Photoshop®,
- Adobe FrameMaker®
Produce like for like versions with ALM Translations’ typesetting service
Add the finishing touches to your documents
- ALM’s professional typesetting service ensures that the translated versions look just as good as the original
- Our language specialist typesetters understand the challenges of working with different languages
- Different formats across all languages is no issue (indd, fm, ai, dwg)
- Documents are supplied in a final format to suit your requirements (online or offline)
ALM works with your source format, saving time and money
- ALM can work with all artwork applications within the translation environment – avoid copy and paste errors
- Save your staff precious productivity time as layout tidy-up takes less time
- Free up internal staff to do other work and complement your in-house departments
- ALM’s cost-per-page is reduced when working with original source files leading to cost and time savings
Recycle your artwork content through Translation memory
- Process the source artwork with Translation Memory software, any repeated text can be effectively recycled
- Drive down translation costs through analysis against company-specific translation data
- Hook the review phase directly into the translation workflow, saving time and money by capturing preferred amends instantly
- Improve time to market: your content will be in front of your customers quicker than before
Contact ALM to find out more
For a translation partner with expertise in your industry, contact ALM to discuss your requirements or request a callback. Alternatively, for a quick quote, please complete our form.


Ishida Europe is a global leader in industrial weighing, packaging and automation technology. Since 2010, ALM Translations has supported Ishida Europe and Ishida Japan with multilingual technical translation across 25 languages, helping modernise workflows, improve consistency and support global product delivery.

