New Feature — Translated PDF Catalogs

At Clean Catalog, we’re always working to make your catalog more useful, more accessible, and more powerful for your school and community. For this reason, we’re excited to announce our latest feature release: translated PDF course catalogs. Your Clean Catalog-powered site can now be generated as a PDF in virtually any language. Whether your institution has a population of ESL students or is looking to improve overall accessibility, publishing multiple language versions of your catalog is an excellent way to expand your publication’s reach and inclusivity.

See It In Action

Want to see translated PDFs in action? Check out an example here!

PDFs in Multiple Languages

While we always tout the benefits of a digital course catalog, we also know the benefit of having PDF print-ready versions that complement the digital version. Now, those PDF versions can be generated in a multitude of languages. Whether your school community needs Spanish, French, Mandarin, or dozens of other languages, our system can quickly create a clean, professional-looking PDF version of your catalog in the translation of your choice.

We typically do PDF translations through Google Translate. Clients are welcome to provide their own manual translations, but note that those translations will need to be updated whenever the original content is changed.

Displaying Translated PDFs

Your course catalog site is the hub for your institution’s curriculum, programs, and policies—and now it can serve your multilingual community even better. Translated PDFs can be hyperlinked within the homepage of your catalog, right alongside the default version of the catalog. This allows users to easily toggle to the version they need, in the language they prefer. The design and formatting of how translated catalog PDFs are displayed on your site is fully customizable. We can display as many translated catalog versions as you’d like and organize those options in an intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface.

Improving Accessibility and Inclusion

Translated catalogs aren’t just a convenience, but an essential tool for building an inclusive, accessible academic environment. This update helps schools better support non-English-speaking students and families, meet state and federal language accessibility standards, and ensure everyone in your community has access to the same information. It’s one more way we’re helping schools meet the needs of all their students. Whether you’re looking to improve accessibility for students, parents, or the community, translated catalog versions help ensure that all users have access to the same information, no matter their background.

If you're a current Clean Catalog client and want help generating translated PDFs for your catalog site, don’t hesitate to reach out — our support team is here to help. If you're exploring Clean Catalog for the first time, we’d love to show you how our powerful, flexible platform can make your course catalog easier to manage and more accessible than ever.