Services/Types of Documents

Tristan Translations has extensive experience in the following fields:

• Contracts

• Litigation documents

• Deposition and court interpreting

• Business meeting interpreting

• Patents and Intellectual Property

• Product specifications

• Insurance documentation

• Insurance claims and experts' reports

• Claim evaluation interpreting

• Policy (conduct) manuals

• Employee benefit manuals

• User manuals

• Patient protocols

• Biotechnology

• Hardware and Software

• Error messages and prompt messages

• Market Research analysis

• Market Research surveys and questionnaires

• Focus Group interpreting

• Press Releases

Delivery

Translation projects can be delivered in several forms: mailed or express hard copy, CD, fax, or as e-mail file attachments. For file deliveries involving languages which do not use the Roman alphabet we can often provide appropriate fonts or font embedding. Text files can be delivered as straight ASCII text or in MS Word, WordPerfect. PDF and a few other formats. Common spreadsheet and presentation formats are available as are some desktop publishing and Web formats. For presentation, desktop publishing and Web format files we usually place translated text within a client's existing template, rather than create a layout.

Reviews

A client is welcome to have a third party review a translation produced by Tristan Translations, as long as the reviewer is a professional translator (someone who derives a regular and significant income from that activity) with native fluency in the target language and background appropriate to the subject matter. Such professional reviews focus on the essential accuracy of the translation and do not interpose purely personal taste in style, vocabulary or grammar. Tristan Translations will modify without charge a delivered translation where such a professional review demonstrates a need and the review changes are clearly marked in the file or clearly and legibly marked on hardcopy using common standard proofreader notations. We can also provide such review services of translations produced by other parties, quoted on a project basis.

Other

Examples of what can often be left out, simplified, summarized or simply noted as existing in original documents without impairing the usefulness of a translation:

• Extensive fax header, confidentiality and disclaimer boilerplate

• Telephone, fax, national identity, patient, license and bank account numbers

• Street addresses, office floors and suite numbers

• Complicated multiplier factors in medical billings (especially German)

• Minor line items in medical billings (bandages, injections, etc.)

• Detailed laboratory results of bloodwork, and common clinical measurements

• Repeated text in multiple sequential disability certifications

• Employer authorizations for medical treatment or billing

• Prescription receipts if already noted in physician's prescription

• Physicians' pro forma referral letters to specialists

• Detailed calculations of employees salary/vacation/bonus/expected life, etc.

• Sections in preprinted forms with no information supplied

• Simple transmittal/receipt letters without real information about the contents

• Flowery opening and closing salutations

• The internal details of stamps, seals and certifications

• cc (copy to) lists and lists of all the participants at an expert rendevous

• Verbose equivalents of "conformed copy"

• Extensive (sometimes sequential) witnessing of signatures

• Proofs of service

• The complement of transcribed/handwritten versions of the same document

• Currency amounts or dates originally presented in both numeric and script form

• Extensive rambling citations of foreign legal codes in claims and arguments

• Charts/graphs/drawings without significant text or descriptive content

• Bibliographies