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How For magazines or books, how much does English to"text volume" differ when comparing Chinese translation affect magazine layoutsto English or German?

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For a magazine, I know from a personal source that English text, when translated properly from German, fills out two thirds of the space the German source text usually takes up.

Does anyone know how much "text volume" differs when comparing Chinese to English or German? Either for magazines, or for books?

Maybe somebody has several books both in English and Chinese and can provide the page count?

p.s. can't tag this question with German

For a magazine, I know from a personal source that English text, when translated properly from German, fills out two thirds of the space the German source text usually takes up.

Does anyone know how much "text volume" differs when comparing Chinese to English or German? Either for magazines, or for books?

Maybe somebody has several books both in English and Chinese and can provide the page count?

p.s. can't tag this question with German

For a magazine, I know from a personal source that English text, when translated properly from German, fills out two thirds of the space the German source text usually takes up.

Does anyone know how much "text volume" differs when comparing Chinese to English or German? Either for magazines, or for books?

Maybe somebody has several books both in English and Chinese and can provide the page count?

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How does English to Chinese translation affect magazine layouts?

For a magazine, I know from a personal source that English text, when translated properly from German, fills out two thirds of the space the German source text usually takes up.

Does anyone know how much "text volume" differs when comparing Chinese to English or German? Either for magazines, or for books?

Maybe somebody has several books both in English and Chinese and can provide the page count?

p.s. can't tag this question with German