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  • SDL Trados Studio 64-bit Release

    Former Member
    Former Member
    • In Progress
    • 2 Comments
    Trados probably is one of the slowest program running on my computer. It's ok for most translation/review and basic project management tasks. But a lot of tasks are very slow when working with big files / lots of files, whereas CPU / RAM usage is...

  • Make "Cancel" instantaneous

    Lieven Lannoo
    • Under Review
    • 0 Comments
    It sometimes takes ages to cancel a running process in Studio while there seem to be no steps that must be undone. When analysing files for example, there seems to be no reason for Studio taking minutes to cancel the analysis task.

  • Allow QA Checker > Inconsistencies to Check Against TMs

    Jesse Good
    • Under Review
    • 2 Comments
    As far as I know, the current QA Checker > Iconsistencies function does *not* check against the registered TMs for the project. It would be great to have this feature especially for server-based TMs. While this feature is possible with the API, connecting...

  • More color schemes for Studio and MultiTerm

    Alexa Dubreuil-Storer
    • Under Review
    • 12 Comments
    The color scheme currently available for Studio/MultiTerm 2019 (and 2017) is limited to White, Light Gray and Dark Gray . These three colours are within the same range so it makes it difficult to differentiate interfaces at a glance , for instance if...

  • Possibility to manually add a new translation unit to a TM

    Maite Sádaba Champetier de Ribes
    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 18 Comments
    It would be very practical in certain cases to be able to manually add a new translation unit to a TM, where you type in (or paste in) your source and target segments. In terms of settings information, the TM could automatically add some default parameters...

  • Create a possibility of adding variables and abbreviations to language resources on the fly

    Jerzy Czopik
    • Under Review
    • 8 Comments
    When working with Studio it is quite often necessary to add variables and/or abbrevations to the language resources list of your working TMs. Especially when working with project TMs it ends up in quite a hard job, as you have to open the language resources...

  • Make "length limitation" visible in "Comments" window for Bilingual Excel file type

    Naoko Jones
    • Under Review
    • 4 Comments
    It is very common text for translation comes with length limitation . Also common is that in Excel spreadsheet . Furthermore, our customers would like it translated via TMS / ManTra. In order for us to meet their requirements, we generally set up a TMS...

  • Confirmation prompt when closing Studio with batch tasks running

    Matthew Keppie
    • Idea Delivered
    • 0 Comments
    At present, Studio will allow you to close it unprompted even if certain batch tasks are running in the background (e.g. setting up projects). Please introduce a prompt which requires the user to confirm they wish to close Studio if any such tasks are...

  • Dark Mode or night Mode in SDL

    Amit Aryan
    • Under Review
    • 6 Comments
    Can SDL editor template be made into Night mode as its very white no matter how much line colors are changed. If affects my vision.

  • viewing more than 200 segments in a TM, and jumping to last segment

    Adelaide Barbey
    • Idea Delivered
    • 4 Comments
    Last segment in TM and view segments When importing a TMX in an existing TM, currently we can see only 200 segments, and we have to navigate from 200 to the next 200, which takes for ever to do to check the imported segments which are at the end. Could...