Crystal Translator — Version History

Version 3.30

Supports Crystal Reports 2016
Supports Windows 10
Added command line Rebuilding for the Enterprise edition
Added extraction/support for Group Name formula
Support field in first position in text object
Corrected XLS import not importing some multi-line texts
Corrected issue with section orientations that were reset to default value
Corrected issue if user press "Use Saved data" in "connection details" dialog box, parameters were not carried over to target reports

Version 3.22

Faster pre-translation when using option "Translation from All reports"
Support for 14 additional conditional formula such as date order
New TM\pre-translation\Formula syntax
New "disable design view" option in File\Options menu to support large reports
Support font name in local language (chinese...) with CR 8
Correct an infinite loop in pre-translation when retrieving text from any reports
Correct field in text object losing their color when editing text
Correct "incorrect number of parameters" when using Excel 2000 SP3

Version 3.20

Support Crystal Reports XI release 2.
Compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista.
New truncation automatic resizing option (Translation Memory Pre-Translation).
Support conditional formula of text object embedded fields
Product update notification
Add "password" property to the login dialog box with Oracle driver
Preview available even if the report does not have database connection
Mirroring now changes the alignment of dates
Report filename extended from 50 chars to 255 chars
Improvement of internal handling of carriage return
Correct field element incorrect position if translated text contain carriage return. However a space need to be inserted between 2 fields if on their own one under each other (one field per line)
Correct carriage return issue in translated text with reports for Crystal Reports 8.5
Correct font size increased by 1/5 point with reports for Crystal Reports 8.5
Correct first run of spell checker not apply the correction
Correct issue with the multi-line editor not set in Right-to-Left for Hebrew text with 3.03

Version 3.03

Correct error when closing the application after opening a report connected to an ODBC-SQL Server database under some Windows XP machines

Version 3.02

Correct pre-translation issue in 3.01 when saving translated properties

Version 3.01

New Design View available even if there is no connection to data-sources, providing an overview of the report while translating it
Object selection from the design view
Selected object is automatically highlighted in the design view when moving objects within the grid editor or multi-line editor. The design view auto-scrolls if necessary to show the selected object
Support for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .Net 2005
Includes an updated Crystal Reports engine (22/12/2005)
Correct the issue of translated segments not always re-used between reports if the TM contains several target languages
Correct error when closing the application on certain computers

Version 2.70

Support for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .Net 2002-2003
Change Paper size and paper margins with horizontal resizing of all the report objects
Notification of possible truncated texts when translating, importing XLS files, rebuilding translated reports in batch mode or on demand
Option to restore the original connection details when closing the translated report
Save translated reports into sub-folders or in original folder with a language code suffix
Statistics on the number of reports, words... processed by and stored in the TM database
F2 key or single mouse click to put the grid editor's translated value in edit mode
Input of decimals for size and position of objects if metric set to millimeter, centimeter or inch
Object selection from preview now working under French, German and Spanish Ms-Windows
Correct issue when saving a translated report while one property was still being edited in the grid editor

Version 2.50

Support for Crystal Reports 11
Spell checker for over 30 languages
Keyboard shortcuts to most of the functions
Support for Non text formula, including selection formula (used in Select Expert)
User settings: restore column width, restore multi-line editor position, formula validation, measurement unit selection for position and size of objects, open last TM used...
Reopen previous source reports from the toolbar
Correct issue when mirroring a report which includes sub-reports
Correct issue with editing and pre-translating parameter default values. Only the string values are now extracted.
Correct issue when importing Tool Tips conditional formula from an XLS file

Version 2.25

Character sets support for Crystal Reports 7, 8 or 8.5 allowing translation into Arabic, Hebrew, Russian... for such non Unicode reports
Support for Sub-report tabs and on-demand caption
Date, Time, number and currency formats can now contains Unicode characters
Correct issue with keyboard language always starting as "US English" if this keyboard layout is installed on the OS

Version 2.22

Country flags
Support for graph X, Y, Y2 and Z axis title labels
Minor memory improvement
Text formula displayed properly whatever the language by using the default target language font
Correct issue with some specific time formats
Correct issue with field elements formatting when editing manually a text object or changing its font

Version 2.20

Batch XLS Export (Enterprise edition)
Batch XLS Import (Enterprise edition)
Batch generation of translated reports (Enterprise edition)
Batch workload analysis can now analyse folder and sub-folders (Pro & Enterprise edition)
Faster pre-translation by using in-memory cache
Faster XLS Export (Pro & Enterprise edition)
Extract of parameter default values
Save and load connection properties from .ini files
Restore the property filters to previous session
Auto-open the multi-line editor if the translated value contains a carriage return such as formula
Includes an updated crystal reports engine (13/12/2004)
Correct issue with carriage return in formula that look truncated in Crystal reports even if they function properly
Correct issue with carriage return mismatch when importing certain XLS file
Correct issue with formula tips when exporting/importing to XLS, if text start with '
Correct the issue with text longer than 255 chars appearing as ####### in Microsoft Excel
Correct preview of reports with parameter and saved data for which the source can be previewed but not the target report

Version 2.03

OLE pictures can now be selected from the preview
Correct issue with the formatting of embedded fields in Text object
Includes an updated crystal reports engine (05/11/2004)

Version 2.02

Support for Tool tip text conditional formula
Selection in preview handling sections with OLE pictures
Correct issue in 2.01 with the "Previous Translation" field

Version 2.01

Right to Left languages support with layout mirroring facility. Hebrew example included
Pay per use scheme for infrequent users
Grid editor with property grouping, sorting, filtering and auto-width adjustment
Preview with object selection and multi-line editor opening from double click
Setup Wizard, progress bar, drag and drop
Automatic reopen of the last TM used
Quicker pre-translation
New XP menu, toolbar and buttons style

Version 1.62

Corrects an issue in 1.61 regarding the XLS import and export of text using Unicode characters
Speed of the XLS export has also been improved over 1.61
Progress is provided in the status bar

Version 1.61

Corrects an issue in 1.60 regarding the XLS import and export of text containing carriage returns.
The XLS export has also been improved to protect the columns that should not be touched by the translator and only allow him/her to edit the target values.

Version 1.60

New pre-translation options to get the most of your translation memory
Import of TMX files produced by other translation memory tools such as Trados, SDLX, Deja Vu... (Professional Edition)
Automatic checking of Formula scripts after edition.
New language list conformed to RFC 3066
New "modified" filter
Speed and memory optimization
Smaller download size

Version 1.50

Unicode support. All languages but right to left are now supported
Font replacement
XLS import (PRO edition). You can now export the translatable text to an Ms-Excel file, send it to a translator and then import it back to automatically generate the translated report.

Version 1.20

Generate translated reports that can be opened with Crystal Reports 7, 8 and 8.5.
Open reports created with Crystal Reports 10. Therefore it is now fully compatible with Crystal Reports 7, 8, 8.5, 9 and 10.
Analyze (word count) several source reports at once (Professional Edition).

Version 1.01

Extract the translatable texts from your reports
Translate your reports with an immediate preview
Pre-translate automatically your updated source reports so you only have to translate what has changed
Localize currencies, numbers and dates
Provide you with a word-count before starting the translation
Import reports you have already translated to reuse these translations in the new version of your source reports (Professional Edition)
Export the translatable text to Ms-Excel (Professional Edition)
Export the translations into an industry standard TMX file (Professional Edition)