New York & Paris, April 20, 2017
Wordfast LLC, the world’s #1 provider of platform-independent translation memory technology, releases an major update to their standalone TM tool Wordfast Pro. This new release – Wordfast Pro 5.0 – includes an improved user interface, several under-the-hood performance improvements, and other features.
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New Features & Improvements
• Updated and New UI that improves space and looks great.
• Greatly improved performance when translating files.
• Improved speed of sending and receiving results from remote glossaries.
• Best TM match will now overwrite lower TM matches automatically.
• Updated Preferences layout to make preferences easier to find and see.
• Moved Auto-propagation, Text tools, and Machine Translation to be application level preferences.
• You can now set your username in the preferences that are used when writing to TM and Glossary.
• Updated Google Machine translation to support Premium Edition.
• Updated Microsoft Machine translation to support Azure Portal service.
• Moved Smart Quotes preferences from being project specific to application wide.
• Updated support for several OSX shortcuts. Please see shortcuts section of Help for an updated list.
• PDF preview now supports PPTX source format.
• Added ability to show a translated preview of HTML content.
• Added ability to show a translated preview of office files in PDF format.
• Added a default JSON filter instead of defining a text based format filter.
• Added ability to create a project from multiple TXLF files with language detection.
• You can now run Analysis in Quicktools without using a TM.
• Quicktools Pseudotranslation now remembers previous settings.
• File language is now automatically detected when adding TXLF files to WFP5.
• You can now cleanup files in a project without having to create translated files.
• Leveraging a segment using the “Leverage” in the editor now overwrites the target. Automatic leverage does not do this.
• Transcheck report now has the option to toggle highlights for Terminology Check.
• Added option to toggle MT autosuggestions.
• Added spellcheck dictionaries for Malay, Indonesian, Bahasa, and Japanese which can be downloaded via Updates.
• Added the score column to bilingual tables.
• Enter button can now be set to navigate in between segment via the shortcuts.
• Office previews for XLS file are now in landscape view.
• All TXLF files added to a project now go directly into the “TXLF” folder.
• Segments that are locked in SDLX files are now locked in WFP5 as well.
• Verifying a segment triggers it being written to TM immediately.
• Increased hitbox area for Verify segment action in the Editor.
• Name of export bilingual files now matches the name of the source files in Quicktools.
• TM lookup info popup now wraps text.
• Clarified messages for completion of analysis.
• All warning and error messages can now be copied.
• Changed messages regarding Demo mode throughout app.
• Change icon size to be medium by default.
Fixed Issues
• Fixed issue with curly quotes causing false positives during spellchecking.
• Fixed issue with spellcheck Transcheck which caused Transcheck to fail if language dictionaries were not available.
• Fixed issue where clicking on the source did not put cursor exactly where you clicked.
• Fixed issue where Auto-Suggestion was not working on the 1st word of a segment.
• Fixed issue where is one TM connection is unavailable TM Analyze would fail.
• Fixed false positives generated by parenthesis in the Transcheck Punctuation check.
• Fixed issue that caused spaces to be missing for some Microsoft MT results.
• Fixed issue causing Wordfast Pro to quit unexpectedly on Mac OSX
• Fixed issue with the consistency check where not all source repetitions were appearing in the Consistency report.
• Fixed issues where excessive whitespaces were shown in the TXLF file which caused them to be removed from the target file.
• Fixed issue where if an unsupported file type was added to WFP, the user would be blocked from deleting it from the OS if WFP was still open.
• Fixed issues where the columns throughout the app would not be aligned properly.
• Fixed issue where bilingual exports where not being displayed in a continuous table.
• Fixed issue that caused the Transcheck Report to be missing the Paragraph length check.
• Fixed multiple display issues that appeared while using the app on a Microsoft Surface.
• Fixed Term Highlighting issues that caused highlight to overflow into the different columns.
• Fixed several window resizing issue throughout the app.
• Fixed issue where cursor disappears sometimes with Japanese and Korean target languages.
• Fixed issue that caused the location of reports to be based on the location of the previous project.
• Fixed issue that caused SDLX modified segments to never appear in the Segment Changes report due to an invalid segment status.
• Fixed OSX specific issue that caused some popup dialogs to not be able to scroll.
• Fixed issue where auto-propagation was adding “n” tags to certain segments.
• Fixed issues with Google MT results having too many extra spaces.
• Fixed issue related to copy action not working using a Hebrew keyboard.
• Fixed issue with bullets being saved as spaces in some filetypes.
• Fixed OSX specific issue where accented characters in filename caused target files to not be created.