Wordfast Pro 5.15 - I'm underwhelmed
Thread poster: Comunican
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Jun 8, 2020

Have just looked at the release notes for the new Wordfast Pro 5.15 at https://wordfast.com/support_release_notes - and I'm underwhelmed.

There are a whole load of issues that I don't think I've ever encountered and apart (possibly) from "Fixed issue with performance of opening Live Preview for PowerPoint files", I can see no benefit in upgrading.

It looks like - yet
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Have just looked at the release notes for the new Wordfast Pro 5.15 at https://wordfast.com/support_release_notes - and I'm underwhelmed.

There are a whole load of issues that I don't think I've ever encountered and apart (possibly) from "Fixed issue with performance of opening Live Preview for PowerPoint files", I can see no benefit in upgrading.

It looks like - yet again - they have included not even one of the many suggestions and complaints that I've made over the last year or so. Sigh.

What do others think?

[Edited at 2020-06-09 00:43 GMT]

[Edited at 2020-06-09 00:47 GMT]
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Tom in London
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Jean Dimitriadis
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  Jun 8, 2020

Is this an update or an upgrade for you? I does not look like an upgrade.

Aline Amorim
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Paolo Sebastiani
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Totally agree Jun 9, 2020

Comunican wrote:

Have just looked at the release notes for the new Wordfast Pro 5.15 at https://wordfast.com/support_release_notes - and I'm underwhelmed.

There are a whole load of issues that I don't think I've ever encountered and apart (possibly) from "Fixed issue with performance of opening Live Preview for PowerPoint files", I can see no benefit in upgrading.

It looks like - yet again - they have included not even one of the many suggestions and complaints that I've made over the last year or so. Sigh.

What do others think?

[Edited at 2020-06-09 00:43 GMT]

[Edited at 2020-06-09 00:47 GMT]


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Samuel Murray
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@Comunican Jun 9, 2020

Comunican wrote:
Have just looked at the release notes for the new Wordfast Pro 5.15 at https://wordfast.com/support_release_notes - and I'm underwhelmed.


Did you have to pay for the update?

I can see no benefit in upgrading.


Did they fix bugs? I'd rather have them focusing on fixing bugs than introducing new features.

It looks like - yet again - they have included not even one of the many suggestions and complaints that I've made over the last year or so.


The WFP5 team are doing their own thing.

So long as the program remains functional and usable, I will continue to download the updates. Or, if a client needs me to use a later version. This is in fact what happened recently with WFP5: a major client of mine upgraded their WFP server version, so it no longer works with certain older versions of WFP5.


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Comunican
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@Samuel Jun 9, 2020

Samuel Murray wrote:

Comunican wrote:
Have just looked at the release notes for the new Wordfast Pro 5.15 at https://wordfast.com/support_release_notes - and I'm underwhelmed.


Did you have to pay for the update?

I can see no benefit in upgrading.


Did they fix bugs? I'd rather have them focusing on fixing bugs than introducing new features.

It looks like - yet again - they have included not even one of the many suggestions and complaints that I've made over the last year or so.


The WFP5 team are doing their own thing.

So long as the program remains functional and usable, I will continue to download the updates. Or, if a client needs me to use a later version. This is in fact what happened recently with WFP5: a major client of mine upgraded their WFP server version, so it no longer works with certain older versions of WFP5.


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Hi Samuel, no, there's no cost for downloading the new version. Mostly, my 10-12 feedback comments have not been for new features, but instead for them to fix things. For example, when I cut and paste a word or phrase out of WPF5 to then paste into another site (wikipedia, dictionary etc), I don't want all the HTML formatting gubbins that goes with it. None of my clients use WFP5 (most use Trados), so that reason for moving to a new version doesn't apply to me.
Cheers


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John Di Rico
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HTML formatting copy/paste issue workaround Jun 9, 2020

Comunican wrote:

For example, when I cut and paste a word or phrase out of WPF5 to then paste into another site (wikipedia, dictionary etc), I don't want all the HTML formatting gubbins that goes with it.


This drives me crazy as well. I found a workaround during a recent translation which was to switch text formatting to show formatting as tags. It depends on how attached you are to WYSIWYG formatting and how much formatting your files have. In any event, I think this is an extremely high priority and should be fixed soon.


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