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■About us Xinyitong Translation
Multilingual
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
We
provide customers with high-quality DTP services and competitive
prices. The following languages are supported:
- Simplified
Chinese
- Traditional
Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
- English
- German
- French
Questions
and Answers about DTP
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Do
you prepare localized manuals for printing?
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Yes.
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Are
all DTP staff familiar with 2-3 DTP tools?
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Yes.
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What
Languages can your DTP Department support?
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Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai,
English, German and French
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Do
your DTP Specialists have a good understanding of English?
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All
DTP engineers are native language speakers and can
understand English.
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How
do you determine the work load for each DTP specialist?
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We
charge based on page count. The delivery schedule is based
on our availability and your request.
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Do
you support Macintosh?
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Yes.
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Do
you usually work with pre-defined templates for MS word?
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Yes,
defining the MS Word template is the first step for Word
document DTP.
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Who
prepare the screen captures?
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This
depends on the client's request. It can be either the client
or our software engineers.
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Do
you usually prepare a checklist? if yes, who prepares it?
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Yes,
the DTP Manager.
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Do
you have criteria for target langauge DTP format?
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Yes.
" XINYITONG Localization Style and DTP
Standard."
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Who
prepares the postscript files?
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The
DTP Engineer
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Who
signs off before final delivery?
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The
QA manager and DTP manager
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Supported
applications and versions (both English and Localized versions), and
our level of expertise.
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Application
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Platform
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Version
# of Localized Application
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Version
# of English Application
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Number
of DTP Specialists
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Excellent
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Good
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FrameMaker
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Win9x/2000
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-
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7.0/6.0
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6
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X
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-
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Ventura
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Win9x/2000
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-
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8.0
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3
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-
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X
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PageMaker
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Win9x/2000
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6.0/6.5
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6.5
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5
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X
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-
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Quark
Xpress
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Win9x/2000
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-
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3.0/4.0
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5
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X
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-
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Adobe
Illustrator
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Win9x/2000
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-
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10.0/9.0/8.0
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6
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X
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-
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Adobe
PhotoShop
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Win9x/2000
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-
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6.0/5.0
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6
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X
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-
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Freehand
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Win9x/2000
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-
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8.0/9.0
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3
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X
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-
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CorelDraw
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Win9x/2000
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8.0
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9.0/10.0
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4
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X
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-
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MS-Office
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Win9x/2000
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95/97/2000
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95/97/2000
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9
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X
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-
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Publisher
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Win2000
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8.0
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8.0
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4
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X
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-
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Interleaf
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NA
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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DocMaker
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Win98/NA
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Director
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Win98/2000
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8.0/2000
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-
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4
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X
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-
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WordPerfect
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NA
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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FrontPage
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Win9x/2000
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98/2000
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-
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5
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X
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-
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Dreamweaver
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Win9x
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3.0/4.0
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-
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5
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X
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-
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Others
to be added
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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Expertise
in FrameMaker
(Support
FrameMaker to HTML Converson)
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Itemized
skill set
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Excellent
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Good
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Some
Experience
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Generation
of book file, TOC, LOF, LOT, other generated lists
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of paragraph/character styles for Chinese
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X
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-
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-
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Setting
up combined font properties for Chinese
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X
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-
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-
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Setting
up references
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of index markers
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of reference page (for TOC, LOF, and other generated lists)
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X
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-
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-
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Work
with HTML mapping table, HTML macro (markers)
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of auto-numbering format
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of variables
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X
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-
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-
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Using
conditional text settings
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of cross-reference formats
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X
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-
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-
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Updating
cross-references
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X
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-
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-
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Fixing
unresolved cross-references
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X
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-
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-
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Localization
of call-outs
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X
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-
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-
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Expertise
in Adobe Acrobat
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Itemized
skill set
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Excellent
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Good
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Some
Experience
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Using
PDF writer and Distiller (including compression, down
sample, and bugs with EPS)
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X
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-
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-
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Distilling
PostScript files
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X
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-
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-
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Listing
names of PPDs
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-
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X
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-
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Setting
up Distiller (including all compression, down sample, and
color settings)
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X
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-
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-
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Converting
from other applications*
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X
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-
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-
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Setting
up bookmark settings
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X
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-
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-
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Manual
creation of links and bookmarks
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X
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-
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-
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Insertion
and deletion of pages
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X
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-
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-
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Cropping
pages
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X
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-
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-
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Asian
language PDF (which language?)
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X
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-
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-
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Use
of note tools (place notes, import/export notes)
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X
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-
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-
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Expertise
in HTML and XML
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Itemized
skill
set
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Excellent
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Good
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Some
Experience
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Manual
editing of tags
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X
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-
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-
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Knowledge
of all tags
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X
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-
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-
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Saving
HTML files with correct encoding (especially Simplified and
Traditional Chinese)
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X
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-
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-
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HTML
conversions
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X
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-
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-
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Knowledge
of supported character encoding*
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X
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-
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-
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HTML
QA
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X
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-
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-
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Expertise
in Photoshop
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Itemized
skill set
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Excellent
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Good
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Some
Experience
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Color
table (load, apply, save, extract, web-safe .act files)
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X
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-
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-
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Color
mode (index, RGB, CMYK, etc)
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X
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-
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-
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Transparency
(GIF, EPS file with clipping path)
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X
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-
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-
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Anti-aliases
and aliases text
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X
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-
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-
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Working
with layers
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X
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-
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-
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Channels
(save, load, use as selection tool)
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X
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-
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-
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Knowledge
of RGB working space issues (Photoshop 5 and up)
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X
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-
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-
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Use
of action palette
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X
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-
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-
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Other
DTP Service Areas
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YES
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NO
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Note
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Postscripting
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X
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-
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Font
troubleshooting
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X
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-
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Color
Separation
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X
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-
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Film
output
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X
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-
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HTML
conversion
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X
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-
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Hardcopy
material
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X
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-
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Others
to be added
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-
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Keywords: Chinese localization, Chinese translation service, Chinese
typesetting, English into Chinese, simplified Chinese, software
localization, traditional Chinese, translation into Chinese
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