SHAMS Company was established in 1986 as a specialist organization working in Middle East languages. Since establishment, we have been used by many companies and organizations. Our professionals provide Arabic translations and Arabic DTP. Look no further than SHAMS if you need Arabic translations, multilingual translations and/or DTP. We work in 35 languages with Arabic as one of our fortes.

Just as cultures differ by country and region around the world, data composition also has special rules depending on the language. In producing tens of thousands of multilingual DTP pages annually, SHAMS ardently keeps abreast of composition rules in various countries.
On top of providing translation services, a real strength of SHAMS is that we can also provide total output services, from DTP right through to printing.

Do you get worried about relying on DTP staff who do not have specialist knowledge of the language being used in DTP?


At SHAMS, we have a check system in place that relies on native-speaker staff and highly knowledgeable Japanese staff, so that you can request our services in safe knowledge that you will get good quality work in return.

Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe PageMaker

Japanese and English versions of InDesign and Illustrator cannot be used to produce documents in languages such as Arabic and Persian. At SHAMS, we produce all data for Arabic and Persian in Middle East versions of the relevant software, even Adobe products.

Arabic example
Unlike Japanese and English, Arabic flows from right to left. Indeed, a specialty of Arabic is that the preceding character is joined to the following character.

Adobe Illustrator (Japanese)
Characters become detached and flow from left to right - thus, meaning is lost.


Adobe Illustrator (Middle East)
Characters flow from right to left, with words correctly positioned.

All languages - not just Arabic - have a variety of rules and special features, but, at SHAMS, we have gained so much knowledge in the publishing field that you can rest assured that commissioned work will be just right.


Converting from PageMaker data to InDesign data
With Adobe production, let us say for a multipaged product, in the old days, PageMaker would have been used, but, in the last few years, it is common to use InDesign because it dynamically links to software like Photoshop and Illustrator.
So, even in the case of some old-format Pagemaker data, converting that to highly versatile data will provide the opportunity to keep costs down from here on through re-use in other projects.