https://www.technitrad.com/blog/Technical translation and terminology, for engineering and construction.en-cahttps://www.technitrad.com/certified-translation-company/https://www.technitrad.com/certified-translation-company/Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTA certified translation company is one whose whole process, not one translator, is audited against a published standard. In Canada, that usually means ISO 17100, often with ISO 18587 and CAN/CGSB-131.10.https://www.technitrad.com/certified-translation-services/https://www.technitrad.com/certified-translation-services/Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTA certified translation is one a qualified translator attests is complete and accurate, for use by an authority that requires it. In Canada, who can certify depends on the province and on who will receive the document.https://www.technitrad.com/captivate-translation-how-to-make-your-adobe-courses-multilingual/https://www.technitrad.com/captivate-translation-how-to-make-your-adobe-courses-multilingual/Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMTA Captivate course can be translated inside Captivate, slide by slide, or by exporting its text and importing it back. The second way is faster and safer, if you know what the export leaves out.https://www.technitrad.com/how-to-perform-terminology-research/https://www.technitrad.com/how-to-perform-terminology-research/Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTFinding a translation for a term takes seconds. Finding the right one, and being able to defend it, takes a method.https://www.technitrad.com/indesign-translation-in-a-few-easy-steps/https://www.technitrad.com/indesign-translation-in-a-few-easy-steps/Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMTA project sheet, a proposal, the summary of an environmental assessment or an O&M manual laid out in InDesign can come back translated in InDesign, ready to print, if the file is prepared for it. Here is how.https://www.technitrad.com/the-differences-between-french-and-canadian-french-when-translating-professional-documents/https://www.technitrad.com/the-differences-between-french-and-canadian-french-when-translating-professional-documents/Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTSpoken, the difference between Quebec French and France's French is obvious. Written, much of it fades, but enough remains to make a document read as foreign, or mean something else.https://www.technitrad.com/terminology-management-translation-quality/https://www.technitrad.com/terminology-management-translation-quality/Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMTA translator who knows your industry still has to guess which of several correct terms your firm approved. Terminology management removes the guess.https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-internationalization/https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-internationalization/Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTInternationalization is the work done once, at the source, so a product or a document can be adapted to any language and market without being rebuilt.https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-localization/https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-localization/Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTTranslation changes the language. Localization changes everything a user in another market would notice: language, formats, examples, units, images and the rules that apply there.https://www.technitrad.com/back-translation-what-is-it-and-how-is-it-done/https://www.technitrad.com/back-translation-what-is-it-and-how-is-it-done/Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTA back translation turns a translated document back into its original language, so someone who cannot read the translation can still check what it says.https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-a-glossary-termbase-or-lexicon/https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-a-glossary-termbase-or-lexicon/Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTA glossary is a list of terms with their meaning or their equivalent in another language. In translation, it is the simplest way to make every translator use the same words as your engineers.https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-interpretation/https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-interpretation/Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTInterpretation turns spoken words in one language into spoken words in another, as the speaker talks. Translation does the same for written text, with time to check every word.https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-technical-translation/https://www.technitrad.com/what-is-technical-translation/Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTTechnical translation is the translation of documents where one wrong term changes a requirement: specifications, drawings, manuals, reports and safety documents.