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PowerTrans Release Notes
Translator and Vocabulary Trainer



11/11/97 - PowerTrans 3.2

  • Multi-lingual Switchable User Interface
    for German, English, Italian, Spanish and French. For each localized language a huge on-screen help is available. By this we react on common customer's requests from Germany and South-Europe.

  • More Improved User Interface
    much better, more Newton-like, flags everywhere, many detail improvements.

  • PowerTrans Keyboards separated Packages Now
    Now all PowerTrans Keyboards are available as separated Newton packages . Freezing PowerTrans will no longer ends in loosing these keyboards in other Newton applications. PowerTrans Keyboards are now released as Freeware.

  • Improved Dictionaries
    English dictionary now enhanced with British and US variations (both marked)

  • Portuguese
    Portuguese is now featured with the language combinations English-Portuguese and German-Portuguese.

  • New Language Combinations
    Spanish-French and Italian-French

  • More than 30 Newton Packages for Memory-saving Use on all Newton devices
    PowerTrans is shipped now by Hybrid CD-ROM (Windows and Mac OS). Install only the parts you need.

  • A lot of other improvements and fixed bugs.


04/15/97 - PowerTrans 3.0

  • Memory Consumption reduced 700%
    Dictionaries now densly compressed. Use up to 50,000 entries (in four languages) on a MP120/130 without a storage card. No installation time necessary any longer. Also PowerTrans users with a 1 MB flash card can use the entire vocabulary. The time consuming import of a vocabulary is no longer necessary. Just install the vocabulary, start up PowerTrans, you are up and running!

  • PowerTrans Keyboards now available in all Newton applications
    Use a German, French, Spanish or Italian keyboard layout in each international MP 2000 application.

    Moreover, 18 new keyboard layouts for nearly all important roman based languages have been included. All keyboard layouts are usable in other Newton applications as well. Thus PowerTrans enables all European users to work with an international Newton MP 2000 without having to renounce the use of keyboard they are accustomed to. The keyboard support includes external keyboards as well.

  • Userinterface improved
    Toolbars, Landscape, Newton on-screen keyboards anywhere, the entire user interface has been optimized and is now even easier and faster to use.PowerTrans can also be rotated now and therefore larger sentences can be viewed completely in landscape mode.

  • Full support of Newton MP2000 & eMate 300
    Speech, Newton 2.1 External Keyboard Interface, eMate 300 Classroom Support

  • Vocabulary Trainer improved
    The PowerTrans Vocabulary Trainer has been improved considerably. A learn result slip has been added besides other improvements.

  • Speech
    You can record and playback speech for all words now. PowerTrans is one of the first applications which support the new sound functions of the Newton MP2000 and eMate 300.

  • Personal Notes for each Word
    Personal notes, e.g. for pronunciation, can be attached to each word.

  • New Filters
    The filter function has been extended for the new features, so that private dictionary entries can be filtered now.

  • eMate 300 Classroom Support
    PowerTrans is one of the first K-12 and higher education application supporting eMate.

  • Newton 2.1 External Keyboard Support
    PowerTrans fully supports the use of external keyboards with Newton 2.1. This includes support for shortcuts, default buttons and full cursor navigation in dictionaries. Use PowerTrans 90% with external keyboard only.

  • Build-In Help
    The detailed online help assists you while using the program.

  • Compatibility
    PowerTrans 3.0 is downward compatible with PowerTrans 2.0. PowerTrans 3.0 runs both under Newton 2.0 and 2.1. But not all new features are available under Newton OS 2.0, e.g. such as speech and keyboard support.
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