Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How do different CAT tools handle previews?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Wordfast Pro 7
Wordfast Pro 7 (WFP7) has a preview function but it's not "live". To open the preview, while you're in the editor, go File > Preview. There are three options, namely Live, Office, and Word. The preview called "Live" is not actually live, but it is convenient because it opens a pane in WFP7 itself with a preview of the translation at that time:
If you want the preview to update with your latest translations, you need to click the Sync Preview button on the preview pane. (The button is called "sync" but it doesn't actually synchronize -- it merely reloads the preview when you click the button.) It takes about 10 seconds to generate the preview of your test file.
You can zoom in an out on the preview pane. You can move the preview pane to the left, right and bottom of WFP7. You can also undock the preview so that it's a separate window on the Taskbar. You can close the preview, but you can also minimize the preview (i.e. it's no longer visible but it's still there, so you don't need to regenerate it each time you want to make it visible).
The Live preview does not scroll down to where you are in the file, nor does it remember your position in the file when you reload it -- it always opens at the top of the document. This means that the main purpose of the preview is more to be able to see the file while you translate and not so much to be able to see what your translation looks like in the file.
The preview called Office generates a PDF file and opens it in a PDF viewer built into WFP (not an external one). The preview called Word opens the file in its current state in Microsoft Word. I'm not sure if the Word option is always available.
[Edited at 2022-09-27 07:09 GMT]
Topic: How do different CAT tools handle previews?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Wordfast Pro 7
Wordfast Pro 7 (WFP7) has a preview function but it's not "live". To open the preview, while you're in the editor, go File > Preview. There are three options, namely Live, Office, and Word. The preview called "Live" is not actually live, but it is convenient because it opens a pane in WFP7 itself with a preview of the translation at that time:
If you want the preview to update with your latest translations, you need to click the Sync Preview button on the preview pane. (The button is called "sync" but it doesn't actually synchronize -- it merely reloads the preview when you click the button.) It takes about 10 seconds to generate the preview of your test file.
You can zoom in an out on the preview pane. You can move the preview pane to the left, right and bottom of WFP7. You can also undock the preview so that it's a separate window on the Taskbar. You can close the preview, but you can also minimize the preview (i.e. it's no longer visible but it's still there, so you don't need to regenerate it each time you want to make it visible).
The Live preview does not scroll down to where you are in the file, nor does it remember your position in the file when you reload it -- it always opens at the top of the document. This means that the main purpose of the preview is more to be able to see the file while you translate and not so much to be able to see what your translation looks like in the file.
The preview called Office generates a PDF file and opens it in a PDF viewer built into WFP (not an external one). The preview called Word opens the file in its current state in Microsoft Word. I'm not sure if the Word option is always available.
[Edited at 2022-09-27 07:09 GMT]