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Navigating a TM: Last Page button?

Pepe Pérez

Hello all,


When navigating a recently created TM, I wanted to move immediately to the last page of the translation memory, but I only see 3 buttons: First page, Previous Page and Next Page. I can't see a Last Page button. How come?

Thanks,

Pepe
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  • 0 in reply to Travis Loveless
    Hi Travis,

    I actually find the price of Studio upgrades reasonable.

    I purchased Studio in 2009 for a little more than CAD 600. The upgrades for the 7 years from 2010 to 2017 have cost me an average of CAD 80 per year.

    I cannot complain about this.

    I will probably be criticized by many Studio users for saying this, but Studio is valuable enough to me that I would be willing to pay a higher annual upgrade fee.

    The annual upgrades for Dragon Professional Individual, a similarly large and productive application, have been running about CAD 100 per year. (The initial price was lower than for Studio.)

    My average annual cost for computer hardware is more than this.

    Of course I would prefer to get everything free, but sometimes one has to think about the price as a reward to the company for providing valuable goods or services. Without payment, those companies cannot survive.

    If SDL had more revenue to pay more coders to get rid of the coding backlog and bring the application up-to-date then I am sure that Studio would be worth much, much more to me than the product is in its current buggy and out-of-date condition.

    In other words, I believe that a higher upgrade fee would be rewarded by making the product much more valuable.

    So, I was actually quite serious.

    If we continue paying the current upgrade price for Studio then we will probably be complaining forever about Studio being buggy and out-of-date.

    SDL might be able to convince its user base to pay slightly more each year if the product was not so buggy and out-of-date. (Classic chicken-and-egg problem.)

    I think if we could somehow arrange for enough Studio users to make a one-time donation to pay for additional coding, then SDL might be able to put Studio into decent enough shape that we would all be willing to pay a slightly higher annual fee. (I.e. get Studio into good enough condition to solve the chicken-and-egg problem.)

    Of course, I don't know how big the Studio user base is. Maybe there aren't enough users to make such a plan viable.

    Or maybe we are all so cheap that we prefer using a bug-ridden program instead of paying slightly more.

    I can dream anyway :-)

    Best regards,
    Bruce Campbell
    ASAP Language Services
  • 0 in reply to Bruce Campbell
    Hi Bruce,

    Rethinking it, that is actually an interesting idea.
    If they did do a fundraiser type thing, that would incur only a one-time cost, instead of forcing everyone to pay a higher price.

    And it sounds like individual licenses are much cheaper, as you said.
    I am coming from a corporate license package perspective, which have annual fees that are not so cheap.

    That is an interesting question, too. I wonder how big their customer base is.
    I know they are the leaders in the industry, but I wonder how many users and corporations this involves.

    Best Regards,

    Travis
  • 0 in reply to Bruce Campbell
    Instead of a donation, another way to entice one-time funding from users might be to treat the money as investment capital with a potential return.

    The ultimate goal would still be to make Studio valuable enough for SDL to increase the future annual upgrade price.

    Users would be taking a risk by giving SDL some capital, but if SDL could increase its future user base or future upgrade fees, then it could afford to reward the users who made this possible by giving them a discount on future upgrades for a number of years.

    But with no guarantee.

    In the worst case, i.e. if SDL gets Studio up-to-date but does not increase its user base or is unable to increase future upgrade fees, then the users would not receive anything back for their "investment".

    In other words, in the worst case the money would essentially turn out to be a "donation" instead of an investment with returns.

    Best regards,
    Bruce Campbell
    ASAP Language Services