Brochure Translation Services
Global LTS translates brochures for companies expanding into international markets. We handle translation and multilingual typesetting as a combined service, working directly in your InDesign files and delivering print-ready brochures in your required languages. Native translators with marketing knowledge ensure your copy reads persuasively in the target language — not as a literal transfer of the English original. ISO 17100:2015 certified, 120+ languages covered. From £0.095 per word for translation; typesetting quoted separately based on file complexity.
Types of Brochure We Translate
Product and technical brochures
Product brochures require translators who understand the technical specifications and commercial positioning of what you are selling. Our translators have industry-specific knowledge across engineering, manufacturing, software, and medical devices — ensuring technical terms are handled accurately and product descriptions read naturally for the target market.
Corporate and marketing brochures
Corporate brochures, capability statements, and company profiles require a tone that reflects your brand. We assign translators with marketing writing experience who can adapt your copy for cultural context rather than produce a word-for-word transfer.
Exhibition and event materials
Exhibition stand panels, show guides, and event brochures often have tight layout constraints and fixed print deadlines. Our combined translation and typesetting service is designed for exactly this — we work in your existing design files and deliver print-ready output on schedule.
Regulatory and compliance documents
Product safety leaflets, regulatory filings, and compliance documentation require precision and certified accuracy. We provide ISO 17100 certified translation with a full audit trail where required.
Benefits of Global LTS Brochure Translation Services
Our goal is to help you achieve higher sales with our brochure translations.
Our translation services will help you can communicate globally. You only need 10 languages to reach almost half of the world’s population. So language barriers should not be your obstacle to global sales. Utilizing professional translators in your brochure translation projects is key to achieving higher sales through expertly crafted communications.
Our professional translator team’s expertise and qualifications ensure that your brochure translation process is handled with the utmost care and professionalism, guaranteeing that your message resonates with your global audience.
Native translators
Our brochure translation services will be performed by expert translators with experience in brochure translations.
Our expert translation teams will create accurate translations of your copy with an emphasis on clear language ideal for overseas markets communication in your required target language.
These linguists will know your specific industry, can do technical translations, and have experience in brochure translations.
As with any marketing material, a translated brochure copy has to speak to the reader in a natural, engaging tone. This is why we recommend the use of translators with marketing knowledge and the ability to write persuasive copy in your target languages.
Our native translators can help create an on-brand message that resonates with customers as well as build trust with them through accurate translations.
With our brochure translation services, you can sell your products or services on the international markets without language barriers being an obstacle!
Quality assurance processes
Quality assurance is an integral part of the brochure translation process.
Our translation service includes rigorous quality assurance steps to ensure the accuracy and correctness of the translations.
This includes QA language checks, completeness guarantee checks, terminology checks and terminology consistency checks. Additionally, we offer back translation services to add another layer of quality assurance.
Our team uses their experience and knowledge to do these checks, but we also have automation tools which check the quality (especially for terminology consistency and completeness guarantee).
Translators also do their checks for spelling and grammar errors, as well as cultural nuances that could have been missed during initial translations.
Quality assurance steps ensure our clients receive a high-quality product that accurately communicates their message in any language.
Global LTS is an ISO-certified translation agency and can provide certified translations. We have spent years testing and refining our processes. They are audited on regular basis to ensure the correct approach is followed and we continue to improve.
Experienced typesetting studio team
It’s not just words that need translation when brochures are localised the text needs to be typeset to fit back into the design files.
Our team is composed of DTP professionals experienced in the latest design software and knowledge of typesetting brochure content.
Working from InDesign files
Translation of InDesign files requires special attention to ensure accuracy and quality. InDesign professionals can create layouts with multiple pages, colour palettes, complex graphics, and layout techniques that need to be considered when translating documents.
Additionally, it is important to ensure the translated text fits correctly in the design layout.
Not many people know this, but when translating the volume of words and the number of used characters changes considerably. In some language pairs, for instance, English to German, the volume can increase by 20%.
Therefore, your brochure design will need to accommodate extra text. Our multilingual desktop publishing team knows how to amend the design to allow for this increase.
Our professional brochure translation services are best suited for translating InDesign files, we have the expertise, tools and tested processes to handle these types of projects.
The process we have in place for brochure translation includes:
- Pre-flight: our DTP team prepares the files for translation. They review the .indd files, check all copy segments, ensure that translators have access to all text, mark up which text needs to stay in English (company logos, product names, etc.) and they create working documents in the .idml file format.
- The .idml files are used to set up the project and launch it on our MemoQ server. MemoQ, a software used by thousands of translation agencies, ensures the creation of translation memory. These translation memories are used to maintain terminology consistency and lower the costs of translation services in the long term.
- Translators work on the copy directly within the .idml file format.
- Translated .idml files delivered to our DTP team
- Typesetting stage – translated text is reimported into the original brochure and the studio team finishes the typesetting
- Final internal check
- Delivery of ready-for-print multilingual brochures
Related Services
Brochure translation is often part of a wider print localisation project. We also provide business card translation with print-ready typesetting, and dedicated InDesign translation services for complex multi-page documents. For packaging and labelling, see our packaging translation services.
Contact us for a quote on your brochure translation project.
Examples of brochure translation:
Case Study
Category: Marketing/Technical
Description: Arabic/Chinese typesetting
Clients: Millbrook – Experts in design engineering
Source Language: English
Target Languages: Arabic and Chinese
Project: Brochure formatting
In this case, the client had already obtained a translation of their brochure from sector specialists, but needed help with setting out the Chinese and Arabic material in a way that ensured it followed grammar rules and made complete sense to native readers.
Our experts did the typesetting, making sure that local norms were followed and that words were not split across lines or sentences broken up.
In addition, we also checked the Arabic translation and formatting of some sets of business cards and provided these as print-ready files.
Case Study
Category: Marketing translation
Description: Translation and multilingual brochure typesetting
Clients: Hotfusion Communications Inc.
Source Language: English
Target Languages: Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish
Project: Brochure translation and typesetting
In this case, we have partnered with Hotfusion Communications to deliver localised brochures for their end client Ciena.
Brochures were created in InDesign and our team worked directly with these files to ensure efficient translation delivery. Our studio team has prepared .idml files which were translated into Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish.
After translation, the files were cleaned up and finalised with our client receiving final InDesign versions in the required languages.
