Translate a sales brochure into Simplified Chinese
Upload your brochure as Word, PDF or PowerPoint: Manuce passes it to Calliope, its marketing and sales engine, and returns it in Simplified Chinese in the original format, layout included. Chinese uses two to three times fewer characters yet takes up almost the same space, so the real issues are fonts, punctuation and advertising tone.
What it costs
For a sales brochure of about 1,200 words, into Chinese (Simplified):
To understand, internal use.
Ready to send, by the marketing and sales specialist.
Cross-checked. For documents that commit you.
Price for one language, original layout included. VAT not applicable — article 293 B of the French General Tax Code (CGI). The exact quote, based on your file's word count, is shown before you pay.
What changes when a brochure goes into Chinese
A brochure depends on its layout: short headlines, tight text blocks, call-out boxes. In Simplified Chinese the character count drops sharply, but each character is wider than a Latin letter. A body paragraph therefore keeps roughly its footprint, while a headline may suddenly look very short. Your logistics partner in Europe becomes 您的欧洲物流伙伴, eight characters.
- No spaces between words: a line can break between almost any two characters, with no hyphenation.
- Full-width punctuation:
，。：；！？each take a full character width, and mainland China uses “ ” quotation marks. - No italics or capitals: slanted characters read poorly and there is no upper case. Emphasis comes from bold, colour or size.
- No plurals to manage: Chinese has a single plural category (other), so “1 product / 3 products” needs no adjustment.
Sales tone, numbers and Chinese advertising rules
Commercial Chinese favours concision and four-character set phrases such as 品质卓越 or 值得信赖. A pun or a rhyming tagline will not carry over literally: Calliope renders the intent rather than the wording, so check any wordplay in the free sample.
- Large numbers group by ten thousand: 1,200,000 customers is naturally written
120万. - Dates run largest to smallest:
2025年3月; addresses run from country down to street. - Currency: prices stay in the currency you wrote. Adding yuan (
元) for the Chinese market is your decision.
China's Advertising Law bans absolute claims such as 最佳, 第一 or 国家级. Manuce translates what your source says, so if your brochure claims to be unrivalled or first in its field, rephrase the original before uploading.
What Manuce delivers, and what it does not
You upload a Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, plain text, Markdown, HTML, RTF or CSV file. The quote appears immediately, based on the exact word count. A brochure of about 1,200 words (4 pages) comes back within minutes, in the same format with its layout, and stays available in your client area.
- The output is Simplified Chinese (mainland China, Singapore). For Taiwan or Hong Kong, order Traditional Chinese, which Manuce treats as a separate language.
- A scanned PDF (an image with no selectable text) cannot be read: export from the source file instead.
- Native desktop-publishing files are not accepted: export your layout to PDF or Word.
- Manuce does not create a Chinese brand name and does not provide certified translation.
Chinese carries a ×1.6 coefficient on the per-word rate, already included in the quote.
Preparing the file and checking the result
The main point of attention is fonts. A Latin font has no Chinese characters, so whatever software opens the file will fall back to a substitute font, sometimes ugly, sometimes empty boxes. Before printing, make sure the Chinese text uses a font that covers Simplified Chinese, such as Noto Sans SC, Source Han Sans or Microsoft YaHei.
- Replace outlined text or text baked into images with live text, otherwise it stays in the source language.
- Keep your brand name in Latin script unless you have an approved Chinese name, and check in the sample that it was left untouched.
- Review line breaks in narrow columns:
。or，should never start a line. - Have a Chinese-speaking reader proof the final file before it goes to print, especially the headlines.
In practice
- Export the brochure to Word, text-based PDF or PowerPoint, with no text inside images.
- Upload the file, choose Simplified Chinese and review the quote.
- Read the free sample: headline, brand name, figures.
- Download the translated file and apply a font that covers Chinese.
- Check line breaks and punctuation before printing.
Frequently asked questions
Will my brochure overflow once translated into Chinese?
Rarely. Chinese uses two to three times fewer characters, but each is wider, so the space taken changes little. Headlines are more likely to shrink and leave white space.
Should I choose Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Simplified is used in mainland China and Singapore; Traditional in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Manuce handles them as two separate languages, so order the one that matches your market, or both.
Why do boxes appear instead of characters?
The original font contains no Chinese glyphs. Apply a font that covers Simplified Chinese to the translated text, then check the result again before printing.
Can I upload my InDesign layout?
That format is not accepted. Export the brochure to a PDF with selectable text, or to Word; a scanned PDF, which is just an image, cannot be read.
Will my tagline be translated word for word?
No. Calliope, the marketing and sales engine, aims to convey what the tagline means. Check it in the free sample and have a Chinese-speaking reader approve it if it is central to the campaign.
The specialist in charge
This subject goes to Calliope, the marketing and sales specialist. See how it works.
The same file, into another language
Into Chinese (Simplified), other files
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Try it on your own file, free
A sample of your file translated at the level you choose, before any payment. You judge, then you decide.