Project A: Translating Nutrition Information for Immigrants in the United States

Peritus has a long-term working relationship with one of the state offices of the Department of Public Health. This brief summary will focus on a multilingual project, the translation of nutrition cards for infants and babies from English to Brazilian and Continental Portuguese, French, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese.

Goal: The nutrition cards were meant as an educational element in U.S. immigrants’ integration process. The Peritus Team was asked to take into account that many of the immigrants from some of the countries mentioned above have low education and literacy levels. In addition to these factors, the translations still had to be accurate.

• Our client delivered the files for translation as QuarkXpress documents in English
• Peritus team generated PDFs for translators and generated a Word source document for translators to work in.
• Translation
• Edit
• Desktop Publishing (DTP) according to our client’s English source document
• A few proofing cycles after DTP to ensure complete accuracy
• Deliver final output in QuarkXpress and PDF

Allocation and Methodology

The client contacted us in order to discuss the various implications as outlined above. The Peritus project manager also made sure that details about the final layout and format of the nutrition cards were clear and would meet our client’s specifications.

• The Peritus project manager selected the translating and editing team from the Peritus database
• Files were allocated to translators and due back in two business days
• Files received from translators and allocated to editors and due back in two business days
• Edited files were forwarded to graphic designer. The graphic designer was chosen because she has extensive experience with non-Latin character language DTP
• Graphic designer implemented translations into document templates provided by the client. Files were due back in two business days
• Files returned from graphic designer and sent to the editors for final proofing
• Last changes implemented by graphic designer
• Files delivered as PDFs and on CD ROM as the client had requested
• The whole project took eight business days to complete

Results

Two days after handing in the project, the Peritus project manager contacted our client to make sure that the assignment had been received and delivered according to their expectations. Our client was very pleased with the final outcome, and expressed that the Peritus Team had delivered a product that matched their expectations.

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