1.1 What's New
New in version 1.5.3 (released 2009/12/16)
Felix version 1.5.3 includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements, especially relating to remote memories and adding glossary terms. See below for details.
Improved Support for Remote Memories
- Bug fix: Editing a remote translation/glossary entry from Felix added a new one, instead of editing the existing one
- Bug fix: Mixed half/full-width glossary entries were not always found in Memory Serves
- Bug fix: Name showed up as [New] in Memory/Glossary Manager
- Bug fix: Name showed up as [New] for concordance searches
- Bug fix: Created by/modified by information was not preserved in remote entries
- Bug fix: The source and target languages were not shown in the Memory/Glossary Manager dialog boxes
Easier to Add Glossary Entries
- If the a glossary text box is empty, the selection on the left is used as the source/translation
- Bug fix: F3 button brought up blank Add Glossary dialog when reviewing translations or viewing a query with no translation candidates
- Bug fix:Text was not preserved between source and HTML tabs
- Bug fix: When editing advanced properties in the Add Glossary dialog, it is not necessary to enter a source or translation
- The Advanced dialog for glossary entries has a “Make defaults” checkbox, to set default values for all glossary entries added
- Bug fix: If all text was removed from the glossary text boxes, the formatting was retained
- The “Add to” list box setting is preserved after closing the Add Glossary dialog box.
Improvements to Search Window
- Keyboard shortcuts: New Search (Alt+N), Search Page (Alt+S), Replace Page (Alt+R), and Show/Hide Help (Alt+H)
- When all filters are deleted, does not show all records
- The number of records changed is displayed after the Replace All button is pressed.
Other Felix Improvements
- Bug fix: Switching views in glossary windows did not always cause new search to be conducted
- Bug fix: Glossary window background color preferences were not reflected in saved preference files
- Bug fix: Match coloring did not use CSS preferences for the word-based algorithm
- Bug fix: Needed to run as admin to use “Check for updates” feature from Windows Vista/Windows 7
Improvements to the Microsoft Office Interfaces
Excel:
- Maximum cell length for adding glossaries/TMs increased from 1,024 to 32,767 characters
Word:
- Common abbreviations are no longer recognized as ends of sentences (“Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Ms.”, “Dr.”, “e.g.”, and “i.e.”)
- Bug fix: Canceling Felix Preferences dialog in Word still changed settings
New in version 1.5.2 (released 2009/11/24)
Felix version 1.5.2 features several small improvements to the user interface, and improved support for PowerPoint.
A list of the main improvements follows.
Felix
- Dependency on DHTML Edit control removed.
- “Switch views” toolbar button
- “Close active memory/glossary” toolbar buttons (or press Ctrl+W)
- “Close active memory/glossary” menu items
- Keyboard shortcut for adding entries (F2)
- Keyboard shortcut for registering glossary entries (F3)
- Menu entry for registering glossary entries (Edit > Register to Glossary)
- When registering glossary entries, the current selection (if any) is used as the source
- Customized context menus for memory and glossary
- Press F4 key to cycle focus between Felix and glossary windows
Word Interface
- “Add to Glossary” menu command brings up dialog box, with selection as source (translation mode) or translation (review mode). Just type in the translation/source and click Add to add the glossary entry.
See the manual for details about the new add-to-glossary feature.
PowerPoint Interface
- “Add to Glossary” menu command brings up dialog box, with selection as source. Just type in the translation and click Add to add the glossary entry.
- Improved support for PowerPoint, especially PowerPoint 2007
New in version 1.5.1 (released 2009/11/09)
Felix version 1.5.1 is a minor release, with several bug fixes and improvements.
- Improved support for PowerPoint interface (especially 2007)
- Register Glossary Entry dialog box allows you to select the destination glossary
- Use the “Advanced” button the Register Glossary Entry dialog box to set default values for added glossary entries (such as context, validated flag, and reliability value)
- Concordance view now starts numbering matches as 1 (was 0 before)
- Bug fix: When loading preferences, remote glossaries were not removed
- Bug fix: Removed behavior to delete identical glossary entries when a memory entry was deleted
- Bug fix: Remote memories always had the name “New” in the Memory Manager dialog
- Bug fix: Background color setting in Edit Record dialog box did not work
New in version 1.5 (released 2009/10/08)
Felix version 1.5 is a major release. The main new feature in this version is a new Search and Replace window.
Felix
- New Search and Replace window.
- Bug fix: Dropped information when importing and exporting TMX memories.
- Bug fix: F6 did not work to switch views in glossary window.
- Smaller memory footprint
New in version 1.4.7 (released 2009/05/18)
Felix version 1.4.7 is a minor release adding several changes and improvements.
Felix
- Remote memories/glossaries loaded on startup.
- Preference files (.fprefs) include remote memories and glossaries.
- The latest Trados text format for translation memories is supported.
- Bug fix: Cannot change lock property.
- Preference files (.fprefs) associated with Felix.
- Bug fix: Template files not copied over.
- Languages picked up when importing MultiTerm glossaries
- After installation, Felix starts in the installer language
PowerPoint Interface
- Bug fix: Skip settings for full-width characters ignored.
New in version 1.4.6 (released 2009/05/03)
Felix version 1.4.6 adds a number of new features and improvements.
Felix
- Check for updates online.
- Felix scrolls to top of window after search.
- Matches re-calculated after being edited in Concordance view
- Bug fix: Searching in fields
- Template for glossary matches
- Source and target languages picked up from TMX memories
- More efficient memory usage
- Bug fix: Alt + C in Felix window
Word Interface
- Stability improvements
- Translation history works with Memory Serves.
- Keyboard shortcut on/off setting saved between sessions
- Auto-add behavior changed
- Bug fix: Errors when getting translations as plain text
New in version 1.4.5 (released 2009/03/17)
Felix version 1.4.5 adds new features, fixes several bugs, and makes some performance improvements.
Felix
- Bug fix: Fixed problem with number-placement feature.
- Bug fix: Sometimes glossary matches were not shown when fuzzy glossary matching was selected.
- Bug fix: Editing a query without a match in the Felix window caused an error.
- Bug fix: It was not possible to correct translations for 100% matches.
- Added ability to import and export settings (Tools >> Load/Save Preferences).
- Improved handling of bad entity references in XML memory files.
- Remote memories and glossaries are no longer saved in list of last opened memories/glossaries.
- Added menu item for zoom.
- Various GUI and message improvements.
- Improved TMX export feature.
Word
- Bug fix: Text containing angle brackets was sometimes cut off.
- Bug fix: Some format styles caused errors.
- Bug fix: Queries with parentheses sometimes caused errors.
- Bug fix: Opening multiple documents in succession sometimes caused errors requiring Word to be restarted.
- The Translation History component is not loaded when it is not selected in the preferences.
- Added stability improvements.
Excel
- CTRL + ALT + F9 to toggle keyboard shortcuts
PowerPoint
- Bug fix: Sometimes PowerPoint would mistake decimal points for end-of-sentence periods.
- CTRL + ALT + F9 to toggle keyboard shortcuts
New in version 1.4.3 (released 2009/01/15)
Felix version 1.4.3 adds several new features requested by users, and fixes some long-stanging bugs as well as others introduced in recent releases. It is recommended that you upgrade to this version if the new features listed below interest you, or if you’ve been bothered by the bugs fixed in this release.
Felix
- Bug fix: When you edited a record, the match text sometimes got duplicated
- Bug fix: On the review translation view, register entries link didn't work
- Users can now customize user names
- Each translation record (or translation unit: TU) has a creator and modified-by field
- When you've just added a translation, adding a translation again corrects the existing translation, instead of adding a new record.
- The Felix templating engine now has a looping construct. See Appendix B: Customizing Felix Templates for details
- Added template files for most of the data views in Felix
- Bug fix: Added .ftm and .fgloss file extension filters for Memory/Glossary manager dialogs
- Bug fix: Cleanup Menus would fail if PowerPoint or Excel was not installed
- Bug fix: The Save As dialog for the glossary window did not save glossaries in other than fgloss format.
- Bug fix: There was an error overwriting existing preference files on Vista
Word
- Press
CTRL + ALT + F9 to toggle shortcuts between enabled and disabled. Each time the shortcuts are toggled, there is a system beep. Any other bindings to CTRL + ALT + F9 are preserved.
CONTROL+ALT+↑ corrects the current translation, even in translation mode- Bug fix: Word would sometimes stay in memory after quitting
- Translation history is now disabled by default
Excel
- Bug fix: Saving as excel gave "wrong format" error
- Bug fix: Excel would sometimes stay in memory after quitting
- Translation history is now disabled by default
PowerPoint
- Bug fix: PowerPoint would sometimes stay in memory after quitting
New in version 1.4.2 (released 2008/12/29)
Felix version 1.4.2 includes several useful features requested by
Felix users. This version is also meant to fix some library issues that were noted
on some older Windows configurations. It is recommended that you upgrade if you have interest in the
added features in this version.
Felix
Word Interface
PowerPoint Interface
- Bug fix: The toolbar was not visible by default the first time PowerPoint was started.
New in version 1.4.1 (released 2008/12/19)
Felix version 1.4.1 is a minor update. It adds error
logging and reporting features. Users can now send a report if a program
error occurs, making it possible to quickly pinpoint and fix the problem.
New in version 1.4 (released 2008/12/08)
Felix version 1.4 is a major update. It is recommended that
you upgrade if you have interest in the added features in this version.
Felix
- Bug fix: Editing memory or glossary entry sometimes left pre-edit version as additional entry.
- Bug fix: There were sometimes errors when saving translation memories as Excel files.
- Created more intuitive dialog for merging TMs/opening as separate TMs, with "Don't ask me again" option.
- Added new and updated data views.
- Improved scripting API. The scripting API is now more versatile.
See Appendix A: Scripting Felix for details.
- Bug fix: Improved feature for trimming spaces when selecting strings in Register Glossary Entries dialog box.
Word Interface
- New feature: Translation history. See 5.6 Translation History for details.
- Bug fix: Numbers with commas are treated as numbers when skipping number-only segments.
Excel Interface
- New feature: Review mode. See 6.3 Review Mode for details.
- New feature: Translation history. See 6.5 Translation History for details.
- Bug fix: Switching languages in the Properties dialog box did not always change the UI language.
- Bug fix: Numbers with commas are treated as numbers when skipping number-only segments.
PowerPoint Interface
- Bug fix: Switching languages in the Properties dialog box did not always change the UI language.
- Bug fix: Numbers with commas are treated as numbers when skipping number-only segments.
New in version 1.3.1
Felix version 1.3.1 is a bug-fix update. It is recommended that
you upgrade if you have experienced any of the bugs listed.
Felix
- Increased maximum number of memories/glossaries for "load last memories/glossaries on startup" feature from 5 to 10
- Bug fix: First match always deleted when clicking "Delete" in Felix window
- Bug fix: Editing glossary match with "Edit" dialog has no effect
- Bug fix: Adding memory/glossary creates a new empty one as well
- Bug fix: Locked memories can't be loaded
Word Interface
- Bug fix: Can't extend lookup after selecting full-width (double-byte) number + period
New in version 1.3
Felix version 1.3 is a minor update with bug fixes and
new features (mostly usability enhancements).
Felix
- Glossary matches now ordered by reference count (most commonly used entries shown first)
- Deleting a TM entry also deletes identical glossary entry, if any
- Register Now dialog now only shown at first startup
- Bug fix: file extensions not properly saved when file name contained multiple dots
- Bug fix: error calling Register dialog from Help menu
- Bug fix: background color setting not reflected in some table cells
- Bug fix: source shown instead of translation in rare circumstances
- Bug fix: Felix TMs were not valid XML in some circumstances
- Bug fix: Error using Edit mode with Memory Serves memory entries
- Multiterm glossaries, TMs in TMX format, and Felix glossaries can be loaded via the command line (and by dragging and dropping on Felix icon)
- Multiterm glossaries and TMs in TMX format can be dragged and dropped into Felix window
- Changed default settings to ignore case and start numbering glossary matches at 1
- Bug fix: background color of memory window not remembered at startup
- Made dialog text larger and easier to read
- Bug fix: error importing glossaries in MultiTerm version 5.5 format
Word Interface
- Option to select spaces after period
- Better number skipping: skip numbers with decimal points and/or percentage signs
- Bug fix: Rare error when switching between translation and review modes
- Bug fix: double-byte numbers with periods were mistakenly recognized as end of segment
- Bug fix: segment lookup buggy when switching between several documents
- Made dialog text larger and easier to read
- Better error handling
PowerPoint Interface
- Added Properties dialog
- Select whether to go to next slide or back to top of slide after reaching end
- Segmentation option: select spaces after period
- Segmentation option: skip numbers
- Segmentation option: skip segments with/without double-byte characters
- Segmentation option: ignore formatting at fine-grained level
- Segmentation option: user can specify end-of-segment characters
- Holding down Shift key retrieves glossary entries as lower case, without formatting
Excel Interface
- Added Properties dialog
- Segmentation option: skip numbers
- Segmentation option: skip segments with/without double-byte characters
New in version 1.2
Felix version 1.2 is a major update with several new features.
Felix
PowerPoint
Excel
- Added a Felix tool bar like the ones in the Word and PowerPoint interfaces
New in version 1.1.6
Felix version 1.1.6 is a minor bugfix release (problems with
the word search algorithm). There are no new features in this release.
New in version 1.1.5
Felix version 1.1.5 is a minor release with some usability
enhancements and bug fixes. Below is a list of the improvements since version 1.1.
Felix
- Fixed a bug with outputting memories in TMX format
- Dragging a memory into the Memory or Glossary window opens it
PowerPoint
- Bug fix: Some shapes in PowerPoint 2007 were not properly recognized by the add-in
- The position of the tool bar in PowerPoint 2003 and below is remembered when you restart the program
Word
- The position of the tool bar in Word 2003 and below is remembered when you restart the program
New in version 1.1
Felix version 1.1 is a minor release with several usability
enhancements and bug fixes. Below is a list of the improvements since version 1.0.
Felix
- Memory window layout revamped
- Memory window layout templates moved to external files
- Auto-selection feature for matching algorithm
- Glossary matching algorithm choice removed
- Register glossary entries dialog: Trim spaces when adding entries
- Bug: Toggle markup link for fuzzy matches
- Bug: Glossary strings shown for memory tool tips
- Bug: Switching languages failed to make tool tip language switch
- GUI: Gave memory and glossary preferences pages consistent labels
Word interface
- Bug: Canceling a lookup did not work as expected
New in version 1.0
Felix is a new and improved version of the
TransAssist translation
memory program.
It has all the features of TransAssist and more. Now it is easier than ever to incorporate a powerfull translation memory system into your translation workflow.
Below is a list of the main improvements in Felix.
Felix
- Searching is now much faster than in previous versions. Use memories
consisting of hundreds of thousands of entries without significant slowdowns.
- Specify the color of the query, source and translation
in the Memory window.
See 3.2.11 Set User Preferences,
View page for details.
- Show all translation matches on the same page, like
with glossary matches
See 3.2.11 Set User Preferences,
View page for details.
- Fuzzy matching for glossary matches
See 3.2.11 Set User Preferences,
Glossary page for details.
- Select matching algorithm for glossary as well as
memory matches
See 3.2.11 Set User Preferences,
Algorithms page for details.
- "Ignore width," "ignore case," and "ignore hiragana/katakana differences"
options for memory and glossary searches
See 3.2.11 Set User Preferences,
Memory and Glossary pages for details.
The Word Interface
- The interface has been revamped. It has new
"translation" and "revision" modes (as well as the classic interface for those
who prefer it), and a toolbar
See 5. Using Felix from Word for details.
- There is an option to automatically skip over number-only segments (useful when translating files with tables of figures).
- Press the Shift key while pressing any of the
keyboard shortcuts to look up/retrieve segments as plain text (for glossary
matches, they are also retrieved as all lower case).
- Specify what level of formatting you wish to recognize
(e.g. ignore the Font Face property if you are using styles to determine
font).
See 5.1 Using Felix from Word – Getting Started
for details.
- Select which characters to use as "stop" characters (end-of-sentence markers)
The Excel Interface
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Auto-translate the current selection, worksheet, or workbook
(all 100% matches are auto-translated).
The PowerPoint Interface
- Text boxes are translated in the order they appear on the screen.
In addition, there have been several bug fixes. These include a fatal error with MS PowerPoint 2007, and some problems parsing TMX files.
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