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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. |