Portuguese Brochure Translation and Localization Services

Portuguese brochure translation and localization

Adelphi specializes in the localization of English brochures into Portuguese providing the translations as well as the typesetting of the artwork, creating PDFs set to your specifications, ready to print.

Adelphi is a translation agency that's localized brochures for advertising agencies, design and marketing companies as well as translation agencies worldwide. Adelphi is a supplier of localization services to companies such as Disney, Jaguar Land Rover, The Royal Armouries, HSBC, Barclays bank, Vidal Sassoon, the Overseas Development Institute and Amnesty International.

All of our Portuguese brochure localization services are carried out in-house, we never outsource any of our typesetting work to external suppliers, keeping confidentiality and quality checks to the maximum.

Portuguese typesetting

Up until recently, there were only 23 letters in the Portuguese alphabet (not including diacritics). The other 3 letters of the English alphabet were viewed as ‘foreign’ in Portuguese, but they were still used for certain ‘imported’ words such as ‘whiskey’ (they sometimes spell this more phonetically using their own alphabet: ‘uísque’). Since the 1990 orthographic agreement between Brazil and Portugal went into effect so now the ‘w’, ‘k’, and ‘y’ are now officially included.

Portuguese graphics localization

If you have any text in your graphics we can localize them into Portuguese, to do so we require the original ‘live text’ files such as in Photoshop or Illustrator. We have the latest Adobe CC applications on Apple Mac computers.

DTP QA (quality assurance)

DTP QA is carried out by one of our experienced project managers after the brochure has been set in Portuguese. They will check the document for typos, incorrect placement of text, the accuracy of dates, numbers, product names etc. when compared to the English original. At Adelphi, we always carry out DTP QA on all our typesetting projects until the document is perfect.

Data required

We require to be provided with a “collect or package” of the original English artwork for us to adapt it into Portuguese this should include the fonts and any images linked to the document, without these we cannot create a print-ready PDF as the deliverable.

Deliverable data

We can supply the finished Portuguese artwork and a print-ready PDF set to your specifications.

Get the most out of your typesetting localization project – tips and advice read more here

Many languages expand once translated from English, so it is best if you leave some space for this. If in doubt, just give us a call and we’ll be happy to help.
Bold, italics and even colors in the same paragraph may not translate into the target language. Avoiding excessive use of these will keep your costs down and speed up the process.
Drop caps and uppercase are not supported in some languages.
If you want to place text over an image, try to add it to the document rather than in the image itself. That way we can edit exactly what you need changing.
We can advise on fonts to match the original as close as possible

Portuguese translation services

Our own in-house translation agency provides translations in over 120 languages including Portuguese. By using Adelphi for your translation and typesetting it ensures that you get the best of services, we are happy to work with your own translations and can advise on the best way to organize the translation for maximum efficiency. We also use translation memory so if your brochure is to be updated on a regular basis we can provide 100% matches and ‘fuzzy matches’ to existing translations to keep the costs down.

Adelphi also provides brochure translation and localization in over 80 other languages