Transit NXT Evolution from Service Pack 0 to Service Pack 8
April 2009: Transit NXT Service Pack 0 (Version 4.0.0.671) Additional versions of DTP programs supported: InDesign CS3 and FrameMaker 9 Additional terminology databases supported: MySQL Version 5.x User requests implemented and usability improved for: Installation Setup Segment filters Alignment Editor Reference-based spell check 2
September 2009: Transit NXT Service Pack 1 Additional versions of QuarkXPress supported: QuarkXPress 7 Additional working languages: Khmer Additional interface languages: Chinese, Spanish and Japanese Greater flexibility in project handling: UNC names supported in the project browser 3
September 2009: Transit NXT Service Pack 1 (contd.) Improved usability for alignment projects Improved usability for review processes User requests implemented and usability optimized for: Installation Statistics Editor Role concept Terminology filters 4
December 2009: Transit NXT Service Pack 2 Additional versions of XML supported: DITA format 5
September 2010: Transit NXT Service Pack 3 Additional versions of MS Office supported: Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 Additional versions of DTP programs supported: InDesign CS5, QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 8.1 More efficient handling of QuarkXpress documents: Batch processing for conversion and PDF generation with XGate 7 XTension Additional terminology databases supported: MS SQL Server 2008 More navigation options for alignment projects Optimized project management: set any folder as the default folder for project data 6
September 2010: Transit NXT Service Pack 3 (contd.) More flexible statistics: Separate evaluation of internal repetitions Additional review processes: Check end punctuation Check for untranslated character strings Allow exceptions when checking for unmodified segment portions Greater flexibility in quality assurance: Allow exceptions for terminology checks More efficient quality assurance during translation: When confirming segments, check spaces/end punctuation and clear next segment More terminology background search options More options for filtering internal repetitions 7
September 2010: Transit NXT Service Pack 3 (contd.) Improved handling of user roles: Password protection and hiding of unused function groups Expand terminology: Add terminology from markups to dictionary More formats for terminology sharing: Import TMX files as terminology Export terminology as a TMX file More filter options for terminology More filter options for terminology import/export More flexible merging of term bases: Use multiple languages for synchronization 8
January 2011: Transit NXT Service Pack 4 Additional versions of MS Office supported: Word 2010, Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 Additional versions of Quicksilver supported: Quicksilver 3.5 Better overview during translation: Target-language preview with dynamically created documents for Word Excel PowerPoint 9
December 2011: Transit NXT Service Pack 5 Additional versions of DTP programs supported: FrameMaker 10, InDesign CS5.5 and QuarkXPress 9 to 9.1 Additional file types for software localization supported: WPF-based DLL files Additional terminology databases supported: MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Express SP1 More formats for project sharing: Create XLIFF packages in conjunction with STAR CLM 10
December 2011: Transit NXT Service Pack 5 (contd.) Greater flexibility for InDesign and QuarkXPress projects: Exclude hidden or individually defined levels from translation More optimization options for segmentation: Split/join source language segments More output formats for quality assurance: Export reports in Excel Export reports in HTML Use reports for navigation More machine translation interfaces 11
November 2012: Transit NXT Service Pack 6 Additional versions of Windows supported: Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Additional versions of InDesign, QuarkXPress and AutoCAD supported: InDesign CS6, QuarkXPress 9.2 and AutoCAD 2005 2012 Better overview during translation: Synchronized PDF display now for RTF documents as well Additional working languages: Nine new regional Indian languages and the official languages of Sri Lanka (Punjabi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sinhala) 12
November 2012: Transit NXT Service Pack 6 (contd.) Simpler spell check with OpenOffice dictionaries: Dictionaries for 80 languages and language varieties automatically installed Higher pretranslation quality through expanded prioritization options: Reference segments with higher segment status Expanded handling of virtually linked segments Greater flexibility in importing client-specific terminology: Import multiple entries and sub-entries for a language into one term base 13
September 2013: Transit NXT Service Pack 7 More efficiency during pretranslation: Adjust the pretranslation even more precisely to the needs of your project More efficiency in the Transit editor: Process your translations even more efficiently and keep track of everything More quality: Integrated spellchecking based on MS Office spellers More user-friendly: Many small enhancements from daily experience to make work with Transit easier Machine translation (MT): Enhanced support for customer-specific trained MT systems or online MT systems, transparency and quality control on MT suggestions 14
September 2013: Transit NXT Service Pack 7 (contd.) More versions of FrameMaker supported: Additionally FrameMaker 11 More office applications supported: Additionally OpenOffice, LibreOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony and more OpenDocument formats More file formats supported for subtitling: Optional filter for SubRip and text files with synchronized play in Transit's integrated Media viewer More efficiency for XLIFF and TTX projects: Translate XLIFF project and Trados TTX files efficiently by using the Internal Repetitions Mode 15
September 2013: Transit NXT Service Pack 7 (contd.) Enhanced terminology extraction: Extraction of compounds and enhanced suggestion display More languages for morphological search: Find also declined and conjugated forms in more than 80 languages and language variants More possibilities for TermStar: New features for project exchange and expanded the database model with additional entry types and entry fields Additional TMX features: Regard segment status during TMX export, export current project quickly and easily Enhanced Command Line Interface: Additional commands and parameters for the well-proven Command Line Interface 16
September 2013: Transit NXT Service Pack 7 (contd.) New Application Programming Interface: Additional interface that provides a function library to external applications Archive reference material: File project language pairs in a comfortable and structured way to the file system TM Container well-proven approach in new technology: Store the translation memory in the TM Container and fully preserve structural and textual context information 17
January 2015: Transit NXT Service Pack 8 Added efficiency in the Transit editor Added quality: Reuse of configurable check routines Added transparency: Segment revision tracking Additional MT systems supported: Editor MT: MyMemory, Microsoft Translator Import MT: STAR MT, Asia Online Additional file types supported: Office 2013 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) Adobe InDesign CC 2014, Adobe FrameMaker 12 WebVTT (Subtitling) SDLPPX (SDL Trados)
January 2015: Transit NXT Service Pack 8 (contd.) Project exchange: Added flexibility and efficiency Additional project information Even less translation effort for PPX, XLIFF, and SDLPPX Terminology: Additional options for dictionary management Added quality through improved duplicate control Additional working languages: Additional language variants for Bosnian and Serbian More Asian languages, including Armenian, Burmese, Filipino, and Lao The additional language variant "German (plain language)"
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