Illustrator is a commercial art design graphic software, which is also one of the most popular and widely used graphic design softwares in present times. This report takes the translation process of the book as an example and is supposed to be representative of the tutorial translation software operation.
In the hope of helping the translators to grasp the original meanings of the source language and to translate it into Chinese in a better way, I try to summarize the characteristics of typical sentence structures and thei
translations in software operating tutorials in this report, which may be useful for the associate software tutorial translation on the market.
2. Background of Source Text 原文本背景
2.1 About Illustrator
The original meaning of the word “Illustrator” is an artist who draws pictures and diagrams for books and magazines. Later, the word “Illustrator” is used to describe insert illustrations in books. Now, it means fast images that can convey accurate visual contents. Illustrator is one of the graphics softwares that was developed by Adobe Company. This software is the most popular and widely used one on the market nowadays. It contains the functions of common graphic drawing and design, text layout, web design, book cover design and modern commercial design. Illustrator is mainly used in the field of graphic design and product packaging design. Its strong graphic design and word processing function has been the first choice for graphic designers.
2.2 About the book
The authors of The Non-Designer's Illustrator Book are Robin Williams and John Tollett. The book describes the use of Illustrator software design skills and methods of commercial art design, including how to download and install the software, get familiar with the operator interface, set the work environment and other basic working knowledge of Illustrator software. Furthermore, the book shows readers about the graphic design, packaging design, renderings design, special
