Since Studio's Embedded preview is effectively broken, can you improve your HTML previewer?

Since Studio's Embedded previewer is broken on most people's computers (as I assume 90% of us are running Click-to-Run copies of MS Office), can you please improve the HTML-based previewer so that it is at least as good as the memoQ one. That is, the main thing that I am missing (and which I really need) is for my current segment to be automatically connected/highlighted in the preview document. Of course, you will say, just use the Word-based previewer, but I tried this, and it introduces much too much lag when trying to go quickly from segment to segment. So I tried the HTML-based one, but to my surprise noticed that it is entirely static, i.e., the highlighted portion doesn't follow your current segment, rendering it semi useless. In its current form, it isn't much better than saving your document  as HTML, and opening that.

So my questions are:

1. When will Studio's Embedded previewer work again (with Click-to-Run copies of MS Office, which is where Microsoft is heading)?

2. Can you please improve the HTML-based one!?

...and a third question just came to me:

3. would it be possible to modify the current Word-based previewer, so that we could optionally disconnect the automatic linking, and just have Studio jump to the relevant part when pressing a shortcut. This would allow me to translate without slowing me down, but then if I needed it, immediately find the relevant spot in the preview document. I actually already have an AutoHotkey script for this, but I wrote it for use with memoQ/CafeTran, and I haven't had time yet to make it work with Studio.

Michael

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  • Hi Michael,

    There is work planned to enhance the current preview capabilities, so I have given this feedback to the development team so it can be considered.

    Part of the problem, to answer your first question, is that we needed a component provided by Microsoft to be able to render the quality preview we did in the past... this is not included with the click to run version anymore. So finding alternatives that offer the same quality is very difficult. But the development team are on it.

    Regards

    Paul

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  • Hi Michael,

    There is work planned to enhance the current preview capabilities, so I have given this feedback to the development team so it can be considered.

    Part of the problem, to answer your first question, is that we needed a component provided by Microsoft to be able to render the quality preview we did in the past... this is not included with the click to run version anymore. So finding alternatives that offer the same quality is very difficult. But the development team are on it.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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