Atlas Copco is a world
wide provider of industrial productivity tools, air
and gas equipment, generators, construction and mining
equipment.With a 130 yrs history, the company is one of
the market leaders in it's industry. Based in
Stockholm, operates in about 80 countries. www.atlascopco.com
Realized
April 2007
Client
Michal Dvorsky/
Atlas Copco
Soft
InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
Atlas Copco
Industrial tools catalogue
This project was a typical DTP affair. An example of heavy InDesign usage. The catalogue has 296 pages and was done in 5 laguages (CZ, PL, MA, RU, RO) according to an english template.
It took about 20 hours per language to translate it, but not only with the work on entertaining projects does one live. It went through three corrections, but we still are able to distinguish tiny mistakes even in the printed versions. Corrector does not have a simple life. Another fact is that not everyone does like a well done job. But let's say it's not an easy task to read, recognize and correct all mistakes the translators did. Some of them are not even free to translate two simple senteces after a lasting appeal. It's all about the people…
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