QuarkXpress document translation and multilingual desktop publishing

Like InDesign, QuarkXPress is well suited for graphically rich, layout-intensive projects like magazines, menus and marketing collateral. As with all publishing software, certain document container/elements can prove to be problematic with post-translation text expansion in target languages. As with other products, GPI can optimize your Quark templates for translation and globalization.

Best practices to optimize your QuarkXpress documents for translation

There are many best practices to optimize your QuarkXpress documents for document translation, but here are some of the top techniques to take advantage of:

• Proper use of an automatic table of Content
• Leverage master pages for global updates
• Bullets and Numbered: do not use separate text frame for each item
• Use a separate paragraph tag for any distinct style change
• Use real tables: tabbed text with "phony" rules can more than triple the post document translation format touch-up required on this element
• Intelligent use of layers
• Use style sheets
• Group elements which should stay together
• Link text frames when pagination should flow in QuarkXpress

Further resources on QuarkXpress

GPI has developed a series of best practices for QuarkXpress desktop publishing and translation. GPI can provide training and/or consulting with your workflow to ensure that your QuarkXpress documents are optimized for translation and localization. GPI has extensive experience in translating QuarkXpress files into Arabic and other bidirectional languages.

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