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Windows

20 July, 2010
Wordfast 2.4.0.1 Release notes

Bugs Fixed

• Pretranslate option affects logs
• Some added placeables deleted
• Cannot apply changes in spellcheck box to target
• MT cannot be applied to entire document
• MT cannot be removed from score column

Wordfast 2.4 Release notes

New Features

• Improved RTL and CJK support
• Fuzzy terminology suffix matching
• Automatic TM lookup option and TM lookup shortcut
• MS Word style Accented character shortcuts and whitespace character visibility option
• Add TXT filter (plaintext)
• Configurable TransCheck QA tests
• Added Terminology and Blacklist TransCheck tests
• Custom Segmentation UI improved
• Auto-suggest added for numbers and proper names
• Shortcut to insert all segment placeables to target
• Move through placeables and terminology with one shortcut scheme
• Replaceables option allows number substitution with TM
• Improved TM interchangeability between Wordfast Classic and Pro
• Editor UI improvements to maximize translator space and move around with less clicks
• Machine Translation no longer unconfirms a segment
• Clear all target shortcut added for improved TTX workflow
• Improved context view information
• Differing target and source font can be set
• Added Description type to TBX export

Bugs Fixed

• Outline not refreshing when in active target issue
• Find/Replace can be put into a loop at times
• Asterisk causes TM lookup to fail
• TMX export has incomplete locale
• Translate variables MIF filter options
• MT not disabling
• Inability to search certain Remote TMs
• Notes View error
• MIF file font differences when saving translates files
• Ctrl+Down not putting cursor in target box
• Shift+F3 can no longer destroy placeables
• Extra right click options removed from Text view
• PPT formatting problem with color and underlines
• Cannot change TM admin highlight issue
• Cannot open original TXML file after performing “Save as”
• UI changes should be saved when restarting WF
• “Save As” path is now working path
• Empty Target tags preexisting in TXML cause translated segment to disappear

And much more!


10 March 2010

Wordfast 2.3 release notes

New Features

• Search functionality looks and source and target
• Word spellchecker added if user has office installed
• Search has been added to terminology
• Added TTX support
• Added MIF support
• Added PDF Support when Office is installed
• Machine Translation via Google Translate has been added
• Added WF Align Tool to installer
• Custom Segmentation now supported
• TM Admin to view and edit TMs now available

Improvements

• Autopropagation now has orange color coding
• Added placeable shortcuts
• Allow for full connection string to be entered when defining a Remote TM connection
• Added Concordance search on Target
• Added shortcut for Confirm/Unconfirm Segment
• Copy source / target glossary terms options added
• Memory used by Wordfast can now be adjusted for opening larger files
• Ability to confirm and unconfirm multiple segments has been added
• Added Norwegian Bokmal support and spellcheckers
• Added Toggle between capitalization option and shortcut
• Added Ctrl+H in addition to Crtl+F as a find/replace shortcut
• Removed marking segments as unconfirmed when clicking on another segment
• Pressing Ctrl+Tab copies individual word from source to target
• Warning added when user copies all source to target
• Right-click in editor options updated

Bugs Fixed

are no longer copied when copying source
• Partial Auto-propagation now protecting initial segment that it is propagating if that segment was copied from source
• Issue with Modified segments becoming non-modified after action Expand segment resolved
• Issue causing all translated/committed segments to go gray when expanding resolved
• Moving between segments using the mouse no longer marks them as unconfirmed
• Issue Empty unknown UT tags in TXML not allowing edits to be saved is fixed
• Mouseover terminology not displaying bug fixed
• Mouseover for placeables not displaying bug fixed

 

20 November 2009

•TM target lookup
•RTF file support
•Fixed INX issue where some text was not pulled into TXML and some graphic elements were misplaced when converting back
•Fixed issue that was causing some files to fail when converting back to original format
•HTML preview
•Fixed Issue with Outline not refreshing
•Faster updating of TM by only scanning confirmed segments and not entire file
•Temp File management in Preferences to control size of temp file folder
•Fixed issue with trailing spaces being imported into Terminology
•Updated Hunspell Dictionaries
•Fixed Spellchecker issues:

  • Right click misspelled word suggestion
  • Edit segment from spellchecker
  • Apply changes before end of segment

•Fixed Find/Replace issue where search did not apply to active file
•More accurate Office file type filters
•100 other smaller fixes

14 October 2009

•Comma in TM file name and file causes exception has been fixed
•Disappearing source/misaligned target when expanding then undoing issue has been fixed (Expand/Shrink issue)
•When <s and <t is placed in target field causes source segment to disappear issue has been fixed
•Missing Target Text post translation and conversion issue has been fixed
•Terminology from previous versions of Wordfast is getting corrupted in 2.2.2 has been fixed and previously corrupted glossaries will be repaired
•Addition of a new partial auto-propagation feature which adds a level of control to auto-propagation that will only change untouched, source copied and already auto-propagated segments.  All other segments will be protected
•Two "No Match" labels in Edit / Preferences / Translation /Colors issue has been fixed
•TXMLs are created with incorrect locale in PMPlugin issue has been fixed
•Printing Chinese TXML shows text off page issue has been fixed

24 August 2009

•Added Word 2007 and Excel 2007 Filters
•Glossary Stemming (Wildcard searches using *)
•Text based formats such as XML and HTML can be opened directly using File > Open
•TransCheck supported in table mode
•TransCheck can be run while translating
•Enable/disable Autopropagation
•Edit placeables in the target segment
•Pre-translate entire file
•Open multiple windows
•Adaptive leveraging

09 June 2009

•Trans-check and Spell-check optimization.
•CPU and Memory usage optimization.

28 April 2009

•INX file format supported (InDesign file format)
•TransCheck feature added allowing for real-time Quality Assurance check
•Updated and Improved PM Plug-in for easier use and navigation
•Additional file type format support through TXML editor view
•Global Find/Replace improved and issues resolved
•Auto-Propagation feature added
•Symbolic name in TM set-up auto-populates from file name
•Right-to-Left language support added
•Additional spell-checking dictionaries added
•Updated icons for easier navigation in TXML editor toolbar
•Sub-Folder creation and Language pair extension added in PM Plug-in (optional)
•White Space character issues resolved (option for white space character view)
•Feature to confirm/un-confirm target segments added
•Additional print features available
•Drag and drop available for multiple files and file types
•TM properties updated to ANSI enhancing character language and symbol saving support
•Enhanced spell checking tool

16 February 2009

• Ability to Export TM as TMX
• Jumping Cursor no longer present
• TXML Editor Translate entire file feature added
• Ability to convert documents with characters in file name
• Non-Breaking Spaces feature added

1 January 2009

• Ability to import TMX TM
• Subfolder tree in PM-Plug-in
• Ability to drag and drop single or multiple files and file types in PM Plug-in
• VISTA—Drag and drop feature fixed
• Table view scrolling issues resolved
• Accuracy of PowerPoint formatting after conversion fixed
• Option in preferences to pull in number only sections available
• No longer necessary to click on next segment after using Alt + Down shortcut
• Japanese segmentation resolved          
• End of line marks in Excel now import correctly

1 December 2008

• Increased TM Leveraging Speed
• Placeable Improvement resulting in higher TM Leveraging
• Ability to define Fuzzy Match Threshold in Translation Memory Set-up
• Additional formats and ability to create new formats in PM Plug-in
• TM's can be added in PM Plug-in on the fly
• Capitalized extension formats now recognized
• PM Plug-in button freezing resolved
• Find/Replace Shortcut now available - CTRL+F
• PM Plug-in output summary default
• Preview in "MS Word" only active when file is open and translation has begun
• Able to open .Txt TM formats
• Conversion of TXML's after translation resolved
• TXML Default Configuration in PM Plug-in
• Export to Excel available
• Several SpellCheck dictionaries added
• Several Additional languages for Source/Target added
• Default Penalty settings Adjusted

 

 
Mac

1 July 2010

Wordfast 2.4 Release notes

New Features

• Improved RTL and CJK support
• Fuzzy terminology suffix matching
• Automatic TM lookup option and TM lookup shortcut
• MS Word style Accented character shortcuts and whitespace character visibility option
• Add TXT filter (plaintext)
• Configurable TransCheck QA tests
• Added Terminology and Blacklist TransCheck tests
• Custom Segmentation UI improved
• Auto-suggest added for numbers and proper names
• Shortcut to insert all segment placeables to target
• Move through placeables and terminology with one shortcut scheme
• Replaceables option allows number substitution with TM
• Improved TM interchangeability between Wordfast Classic and Pro
• Editor UI improvements to maximize translator space and move around with less clicks
• Machine Translation no longer unconfirms a segment
• Clear all target shortcut added for improved TTX workflow
• Improved context view information
• Differing target and source font can be set
• Added Description type to TBX export

Bugs Fixed

• Drag and Drop of files not working on OSX
• WFP crashes when user presses “License Management” button
• OSX error when you try to expand TM tree in TM Admin
• Partial Auto-Propagation on OSX is Default option
• OSX Memory Preferences do not work (not able to change amount of memory)
• Preview Word doc not working on OSX
• OSX Shift+F3 not working
• OSX Add Notes, Edit Notes, Delete Notes doesn't exist under Translation Memory menu
• Preview does not work with files created in Word 2008 for OSX
• Outline not refreshing when in active target issue
• Find/Replace can be put into a loop at times
• Asterisk causes TM lookup to fail
• TMX export has incomplete locale
• Translate variables MIF filter options
• MT not disabling
• Inability to search certain Remote TMs
• Notes View error
• MIF file font differences when saving translates files
• Ctrl+Down not putting cursor in target box
• Shift+F3 can no longer destroy placeables
• Extra right click options removed from Text view
• PPT formatting problem with color and underlines
• Cannot change TM admin highlight issue
• Cannot open original TXML file after performing “Save as”
• UI changes should be saved when restarting WF
• “Save As” path is now working path
• Empty Target tags preexisting in TXML cause translated segment to disappear

 

26 March 2010

Wordfast 2.3 release notes

New Features

• Search functionality looks and source and target
• Word spellchecker added if user has office installed
• Search has been added to terminology
• Added TTX support
• Added MIF support
• Added PDF Support when Office is installed
• Machine Translation via Google Translate has been added
• Added WF Align Tool to installer
• Custom Segmentation now supported
• TM Admin to view and edit TMs now available

Improvements

• Autopropagation now has orange color coding
• Added placeable shortcuts
• Allow for full connection string to be entered when defining a Remote TM connection
• Added Concordance search on Target
• Added shortcut for Confirm/Unconfirm Segment
• Copy source / target glossary terms options added
• Memory used by Wordfast can now be adjusted for opening larger files
• Ability to confirm and unconfirm multiple segments has been added
• Added Norwegian Bokmal support and spellcheckers
• Added Toggle between capitalization option and shortcut
• Added Ctrl+H in addition to Crtl+F as a find/replace shortcut
• Removed marking segments as unconfirmed when clicking on another segment
• Pressing Ctrl+Tab copies individual word from source to target
• Warning added when user copies all source to target
• Right-click in editor options updated

Bugs Fixed

are no longer copied when copying source
• Partial Auto-propagation now protecting initial segment that it is propagating if that segment was copied from source
• Issue with Modified segments becoming non-modified after action Expand segment resolved
• Issue causing all translated/committed segments to go gray when expanding resolved
• Moving between segments using the mouse no longer marks them as unconfirmed
• Issue Empty unknown UT tags in TXML not allowing edits to be saved is fixed
• Mouseover terminology not displaying bug fixed
• Mouseover for placeables not displaying bug fixed

16 February 2009

• License Manager available
• Preferences Available
• PM Plug-in resolved
• Unable to open documents resolved

 

 
Linux

26 March 2010

Wordfast 2.3 release notes

New Features

• Search functionality looks and source and target
• Word spellchecker added if user has office installed
• Search has been added to terminology
• Added TTX support
• Added MIF support
• Added PDF Support when Office is installed
• Machine Translation via Google Translate has been added
• Added WF Align Tool to installer
• Custom Segmentation now supported
• TM Admin to view and edit TMs now available

Improvements

• Autopropagation now has orange color coding
• Added placeable shortcuts
• Allow for full connection string to be entered when defining a Remote TM connection
• Added Concordance search on Target
• Added shortcut for Confirm/Unconfirm Segment
• Copy source / target glossary terms options added
• Memory used by Wordfast can now be adjusted for opening larger files
• Ability to confirm and unconfirm multiple segments has been added
• Added Norwegian Bokmal support and spellcheckers
• Added Toggle between capitalization option and shortcut
• Added Ctrl+H in addition to Crtl+F as a find/replace shortcut
• Removed marking segments as unconfirmed when clicking on another segment
• Pressing Ctrl+Tab copies individual word from source to target
• Warning added when user copies all source to target
• Right-click in editor options updated

Bugs Fixed

are no longer copied when copying source
• Partial Auto-propagation now protecting initial segment that it is propagating if that segment was copied from source
• Issue with Modified segments becoming non-modified after action Expand segment resolved
• Issue causing all translated/committed segments to go gray when expanding resolved
• Moving between segments using the mouse no longer marks them as unconfirmed
• Issue Empty unknown UT tags in TXML not allowing edits to be saved is fixed
• Mouseover terminology not displaying bug fixed
• Mouseover for placeables not displaying bug fixed

 

 
 
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