TRANSLATIONS
Legal translations
The legal department is fully devoted to the translation of legal documents such as:

• Contracts
• Powers of attorney
• Premarital agreements
• Certificates (birth, marriage, death, etc.)
• Wills and testaments
• Articles of incorporation and by-laws
• Diplomas
• License agreements
• Patents
• Letters of credit
• Etc.

Each one of the translators is a fully qualified professional, experienced in the translation of these documents and licensed by the "Colegios de Traductores" (professional bodies of sworn translators and interpreters) of the cities of Santa Fe , Rosario and Buenos Aires . Translators are further supervised by a lawyer that is in charge of the department. Additionally, all our translations can be legally certified upon request.

Technical translations
The technical department of Santa Fe Translations is made up of professional translators specialized in each field of expertise and a large database of external consultants involved in the final proofreading stage of our quality assurance process. Documents handled in this section include the following:

User manuals

• Product sheets
• Labels
• Safety warnings
• Training courses
• Instructions
• Scientific papers
• Technical sheets
• Patents
• Software manuals
• Etc.

We specialize in the following areas among others:

Architecture
Auto engineering
Biology
Building
Catering
Chemical engineering
Chemistry
Civil engineering
Commerce
Earth sciences
Ecology, Edu catio n
Electrical engineering
Environment
Food & Agriculture
Forestry
Gas industry
Human resources
Hydraulics
Information technology
Machine tools
Management
Mechanical engineering
Media
Medical Science & Health
Medicine
Mining
Music
Nuclear energy
Oil industry
Pharmaceutica
industry
Photography
Physics
Real estate
Shipping
Technology & Engineering
Telecommunications
Tourism
Trade
Training
Transport
Veterinary science
Water industry
Zoology

General and literary translations
There are a great variety of texts that, even though their vocabulary and structure appear to be simple and plain at first sight, require great creativity, originality and imagination on the part of the translator. This collection of texts includes:

• Brochures
• Websites
• Newsletters
• Advertising campaigns
• Religious texts
• Bulletins
• Speeches
• Papers
• Etc.

The translators in charge of translating these texts are highly qualified linguists, experienced in the use of the language, marketing, copywriting, etc. The translated texts are further proofread by a second specialist that assesses and evaluates the impact of the target language text on the audience targeted by the client.

DTP
A few decades ago, the translation process was much simpler and more straightforward than it is today. Nowadays, one of the main aspects of translation is connected to the graphic design and the arrangement of the text within the document. This part of the process is handled by our DTP specialists and includes all the graphic work necessary to make the target language text look exactly like the source language text. Our DTP specialists are proficient in the use of a variety of software tools such as:

• · Macromedia Dream Weaver
• · Macromedia Fireworks
• · Quark X-Press
• · Adobe Go Live!
• · Adobe Page Maker
• · Adobe Photoshop
• · Acrobat Professional
• · Adobe Illustrator
• · Corel Draw

PROOFREADING
Proofreading services are available for customers that have a document, manual or brochure to be published and that would like to have a second opinion or correction from a professional linguist and native speaker of the target language.
Santa Fe Translations provides proofreading of documents that have already been edited or that need to be checked and corrected one last time while they are in the pre-printing stage. Proofreaders will look for:

• punctuation
• style
• quality of language
• spelling mistakes
• typographic mistakes
• translation errors
• misplaced captions or headlines
• other inconsistencies

NOTE: We do not proofread machine translated texts.