Improved memory consumption, application speed and handling very large (+40,000 segment) TXML files
Hidden sheets in Excel are no longer pulled in for translation
Last segment edited in TXML can be accessed via Shift+F5 shortcut
Cleanup TM option in PM plugin is now sortable and includes additional TM information
Added Number Extraction compatibility for InDesign and FrameMaker files
Added better memory management to control heap size
Improved concordance searching to find better matches in larger TMs
Improved number handling during leveraging so that fuzzy number matching is ignored and only exact matches are leveraged if Replaceables is off
IDML filter now ignores kerning when pulling in translatable content to TXML, tracking is still maintained
Improved concordance searching to find better matches in larger TMs
Added Page Up/Page Down functionality with source is selected
Added font mapping for Bangla, Kartika, Guatami, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi
Shift+Spacebar shortcut has been unbound to prevent accidental leverage
Replaceables options can now be separately set
Removed apply changes from spellchecker and added expanded functionality of Change button and added Undo Edit button
'Select All Columns' option added to Excel wizard
Increased size of add note description box
Expanded what WFP considers number to work with decimals, whitespaces and mathematical notation. This is changed for both Replaceables and number extraction
Placeables handling is now always {ut1}{ut2}{ut3}{ut4} in the editor and when writing to the TM
Updated Google Translate to support API v2, discontinued API v1, updated UI to support key
Machine Translation updated to stay enabled through all projects
All number only segments should not leverage fuzzy matches
Added support for Microsoft Translator via API key from MS. Added primary MT option
Added PPT/PPTX filter option to translate master slide
Language of objects in PPT and PPTX is now automatically set
Issues Resolved
Fixed issue where incorrect Message shown when last segment of document is reached
Fixed issue where you could not delete a file that was recently closed in the WFP editor
Fixed issue with confirm/unconfirm not working after a segment has been expanded
Fixed issue causing Google MT connection error to appear when Google MT is turned off in preferences when translating Hebrew language
Fixed issue concerning spaces in Japanese source causing inconsistent leverage score
INX file gives an empty segment error when analyzing but still ends up creating a txml that can be translated. TXML has an unexplained empty segment.
Fixed issue where Latin characters in files translated to Chinese had inconsistent fonts
Fixed display issue where TM lookup would be cut off when changing window size
Fixed issue where accessing remote TM from TM admin without admin password would not allow user to search remote TM
MIF filter issue: Fixed issue causing certain marker text to not be imported into TXML
Fixed issue that caused TU updated via TM admin to not appear as a 100% match
Fixed issue where Merge/Split action is caused all segment statuses to be reverted to edited
Fixed issue where no segmentation option could be selected
Fixed issue where opening certain blacklist file resulted in an error
Fixed issue where properties for XSL and DOC were using preferences for XSLX and DOCX
Fixed issue where track changes was causing certain DOC files to not open in Wordfast Pro
Fixed issue where Excel text from rectangle shapes is not pulled into the TXML
Fixed inconsistency between Editor and PM plugin alignment error
Fixed issue where PPT and PPTX filter ignore filter preferences when creating TXML from PM plugin
Fixed issue where slide numbers for PPT/PPTX file were being pulled in with notes
– Fixed issues regarding whitespaces in CJK segmentation
Fixed issue where placeables that do not exist in source can be created in target
Fixed Find/Replace issue where F/R needed to be reopened to work with a different file
Fixed issue where N/A from the score column can be found using Find/Replace
“Tab” whitespace is now stored and retrieved from TM
Fixed issue that allowed for duplicate blacklist names
When trying to edit a note delete dialog would appear, this has been changed to “This segment doesn't contain a note.”
Fixed issue where analyses report results of 2 or more files would not show character percentage column
Mac OSX: fixed issue where user could not edit misspelled word
Fixed issue that made underline in word cause “Change all” option to skip it
Fixed issue where a change in only a note would not allow the file to be saved
Fixed issue where undo shrink would cause committed segment to have a edited status
Fixed behavior where a placeable that does not exist in the source can be pasted in the target
Fixed java issue where WFP could not be opened in OSX 10.5.8
Fixed issue where Translate until Fuzzy was not working as expected
Fixed Replace All issue where button should be disabled when it finds word from source
Fixed filter issue where tracked changes were being pulled into TXML even if track changes in DOC is off
Fixed issue blocking abbreviation modifications from being saved
Fixed issue where selecting existing project option invoked Create Project even if Project with same locale is present
Fixed PM plugin issue that caused analysis to disregard penalties
Fixed issue where number extraction was causing alignment issues when saving translated files in PM plugin
Fixed MIF filter issue that would cause certain French characters to be corrupted
Fixed issue where WFP was hanging when copying source on a large PDF file
Extract Frequents- Added warning for TXML files with 2 different locales
Fixed issue where changing certain formatting in Wordfast translated Excel file causes Excel to crash
Fixed shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Down (Term/Placeable copy) not copying term into target
Fixed issue that caused OSX shortcuts to fail
Fixed find replace issue that would cause the last found word to be permanently highlighted in the editor
Fixed error causing spellchecker updates to fail via update system
Fixed issue where Replace All button was not working when backward direction is checked
Fixed issue where Replace All button was not working when backward direction is checked
Fixed color issue in OSX version that blocked the change of colors
Fixed PM Plugin report issue where block numbers were shown instead of segment numbers in errors
Fixed PPTX filter issue where language font mapping was ignored when creating translated file
Fixed PM plugin and Editor TM lookup consistency issue
Fixed WFP handling of apostrophes from Google MT results
Fixed PPTX issue where if object in presentation did not have a language set, WFP would not create a TXML
Fixed Transcheck issue where Terminology check did not show results if run on entire file
Fixed issue blocking TMs from being selected in Pmplugin when running WFP in demo mode
Wordfast 2.4.3.1 Release notes
Windows
Mac
Linux
September 2011
New Features
Updated JRE to latest version .25
Added Dari Language in Wordfast
Removed "Translate Hidden text" and "Translate Text Inset" in FrameMaker Filter Preferences
TM list in Quick PM (PM plug-in) is now sortable
Increased number of allowable spelling errors from 100 – 1000 before the spellchecker triggers warning that spellchecker will stop
Text that is hidden in xls/xlsx files via ;;; and ;;;; will not be pulled into TXML file
Issues Resolved
Fixed issue with XSLX filter in 2.4.2 not creating TXML file when using PM plugin
Fixed issue with Partial Auto-Propagation working Globally
Fixed IDML Filter segmentation issue for CJK languages
Fixed extended locales issue and updated locales
Fixed shrink segment button issue from 2.4.3
Fixed spellchecker issue: Apply changes button should only apply manual changes
Fixed issue in Text view: If a segment has a note selecting "delete note" should delete the last created note
Fixed Select All action in PM perspective that causes user to not be able to select files in a folder
Fixed Change All Button not working correctly issue
Fixed Ignore All button not working correctly issue
Fixed Linux, Mac bug where Find/Replace button were not functional
Fixed issue where Output Analysis report did not get .csv extension
Fixed problem after Find/Replace actions
Fixed Confirm/Unconfirm issue after Expand action in 2.4.3
Fixed issue with Problem with Excel filter with advanced wizard pulling in unchecked columns
Fixed copy all placeables issue when trying to add placeable that already exists
Fixed issue with Replace All action freezing application
Fixed consistency of size of note window to not resize
Fixed issue with TXML not having language extension when leveraging from multiple languages
Case Sensitive Find and Replace fixed
Fixed PPT clean up error: Error writing presentation to a stream that occurs for certain PPT files
Fixed issue with Transcheck not reporting empty target segments
Fixed issue where PM plugin gives an error when cleaning up PPT files
Fixed issue where Hash sign (#) in source causes clean up to fail in xls files
Fixed warning for duplicate sheet name to include correct segment ID number
Fixed “no tm is active” warning
Fixed issue with Multi-tab Excel being incorrectly extracted using advanced wizard
Fixed issue where Arabic .docx has formatting issues post conversion
Fixed issue where NOTEREF appears in fields and notes in doc and docx files
Fixed issue where expanding multiple segments of a .doc causes the document to not be aligned properly during cleanup
Fixed bug when cleaning certain xls files in PM plugin
Fixed issue where Automatic page numbers in footer cause problems with clean up with Docx files
Fixed issue where numeric values in Excel cells not extracted correctly
Fixed XLS alignment incompatibility where Excel extraction values where not written in TXML
Fixed Linux issue where you could not close TM lookup window
Fixed PDF filter “Assertion fail” issue
Fixed issue where spellchecker did not remember changes to spellcheck options
MAC: Fixed table not refreshing after Shrink and Expand actions
Fixed “Change all” spellcheck option automatically going to next segment issue
Linux: Fixed issue where Analyze report was not aligned
Fixed issue where Preview in MS Word does not respond
[2739] – Fixed Partial Auto-Propagation only running when doing a commit action issue
Fixed problem when Workgroup ID is not entered, read-only should be selected automatically
Fixed Blacklist button issue where blacklist was read-only yet edit buttons were active
Fixed issue where segments with just placeables should not be represented as translatable
Fixed issue where Expand segment removes placeables in target for ever segment after expand action
Fixed issue where some text was not displayed in the TXML editor because of excessive use of spaces in the source file
Some TTX file containing tabs would not leverage to 100% even if that same TTX was cleaned to TM
Fixed issue where last segment in a file did not receive a status change when committing to TM
Fixed issue with TM lookup searching for entire segment when only part of source is selected
Fixed issue with select all shortcut
Previous Release notes
Windows
April 2011
New Features
Added warning if “New” action will overwrite an existing TM (2449)
Add “Translate hidden text” option in Framemaker filter preferences (2240)
Allow for syncing of WF Pro and WF Classic glossaries (2483)
Changed default behavior of Framemaker filter to have all extra text options be unchecked
Concatenate adjacent <string> tags into a single tag to reduce placeable count (273)
Font for doc files translated into Japanese changed from MS Gothic to MS UI Gothic (2624)
Added Framemaker filter option for the user to select if text insets should be translated (269)
Added Framemaker filter option to select if marker texts should be translated and enter what marker texts should be considered translatable (within <MTypeName `example’> (274)
Exclude comments in hidden .xls columns and rows (277)
Do not translate formulas option needed in XLS/XLSX filter (253)
Remove conditional tags option
Issues Resolved
PPT/PPTX file with speaker notes does not convert back if skip notes is selected
Highlighting <s> in text view then press TAB corrupts TXML (2552)
TXML files with HE (no locale) as the target won’t clean up (2445)
Certain Hyperlinks cause TXML cleanup failure (1767)
Comma in Excel sheetname causes conversion failure (2259)
Exporting certain WF txt TM to TMX results in error (2371)
Importing some TBX files could cause WF to freeze (2390)
Excel tab names exceeds 31 error corrected to point to segment (2391)
“Use Replaceables” option creates segments that cannot be edited (2447)
Certain formatting character causes DOC file to not align properly (2096)
TXT filter segmenter not treating line breaks as paragraph breaks (2124)
<Fieldstart> tags causing aligning errors during DOC file cleanup (2221)
Hidden text in doc file causes “There was a problem while writing TXML document” error (2229)
Certain TXMLs created from XLSX create translated files that cannot be opened (1279)
Smart tags in DOC files are stopping post process conversion (2243)
Misleading error message involving Excel character limits (2345)
Invalid XML character causes entire TM to fail import (2354)
Certain glossary terms are not highlighted because of certain characters like NBSP are in front (2433)
Translated PDF files should save out to DOC file format in both PM and Editor (2528)
Indonesian language code should be displayed as ID_ID instead of IN_ID (2352)
Remote terminology sync displays 0 terms imported even though terms were successfully imported (2522)
Typo in Preferences and Terminology dialog (2555)
Help Menu > Bug report causes error when submitting bug (1599)
TXMLs created with Indonesian as target are coded incorrectly (1345)
Placeholder placeable showing as plain text (2356)
Word spellchecker persists after application restart (2686)
Target terms are highlighted after importing new glossary in table view (679)
Skip notes page issue with PPT (2388)
Cross references come out broken when saving MIF (254)
MIF paragraphs that begin with crossreferences or mtext do not get imported into txml (255)
MIF table is imported into TXML but not exported (256)
MIF <Default Font> gets added in target file (261)
Some content gets misplaced when working with MIF 9 files (262)
Parsing apostrophes issue with Framemaker files (264)
Clear button - Clear button clears the settings setup by sample file
Translate sheet names - option to include Sheet names as translatable
Translate hidden row and columns - option to include rows hidden in excel as translatable data
Shortcut added to be able to highlight forward or backward one word at a time: Shift+Alt+ Left/Right
Updated color for fuzzy terminology matches
Additional option to disable fuzzy terminology
TMGR4 Remote Terminology access
Addition of segment numbers to TXML printout
Bugs Fixed
Adding terminology with no match causes instability
Bug causing only 1024 files to be analyzed fixed
Active Transcheck not working on RTL languages
Automatic TM lookup not working on RTL languages
Terminology error caused by * no long fails to create glossary
Restore defaults in custom segmentation not functioning
Hidden code in .doc files not appearing in translation
Concordance searching space issue with CJK languages
Remote TM match are colored as Local TM matches
PDF filter not working on machines without Admin access
Terms with colon at the end of the term are not recognized as matches
TM lookup highlighting for Japanese are not properly highlighted
Edits done to hyperlink placeables do not get saved in the translated file
Copy/paste not working in the Create project dialog
Shortcut key conflict when installing 2.4.0.1
Cleanup files in PM-plugin that were created by the Editor
White space characters not displaying in text view
Spellchecker issue with hyphenated words
Auto-Suggest changed to autocomplete
Fuzzy terminology highlight color changed
And much more!
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
2 December, 2010
Wordfast 2.4.1 Release notes
New Features
Addition of an IDML filter for InDesign CS5 files
disable segment not committed to TM warning permanently
