Antidote 9 Version history - Windows

Antidote 9 v5.3 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v5.2 :

General Improvements

  • Antidote opens more quickly
  • Better display on monitors with high resolution (HiDPI)
  • Improved handling of the Jump List
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

New integrations

  • Iompatibility with Windows 10 version 1809
  • Integration with Firefox 62
  • Integration with Google Chrome 70
  • Integration with Thunderbird 60

Antidote 9 v5.2 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v5.1 :

General Improvements

  • Integration with Firefox 60
  • Integration with Firefox ESR 60
  • Integration with Google Chrome 66
  • Integration with GroupWise 2018
  • Integration with LibreOffice 6
  • Integration with WordPerfect X9
  • Correction of a potential security risk by http interference

Cumulative Integration Improvements (from previous connector updates)

  • Integration with Illustrator 2018 (22.0)
  • Integration with InCopy 2018 (13.0)
  • Integration with InDesign 2018 (13.0)​
  • MS Outlook 2013 and 2016
    • Fewer instances of error 5153 in inline response mode

Antidote 9 v5.1 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v5 :

New Integrations

  • JS-Connect – (for developers) API for integration of Antidote buttons directly into Web pages
  • Integration with Firefox 55
  • Integration with Google Chrome 60

Improvements to Integrations

  • LibreOffice, MS Word
    • Removal of unwarranted error messages​
  • Thunderbird
    • Preservation of selected text after a synchronization

General Improvements

  • Anti-Oops!
    • Removal of unwarranted error messages
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Antidote 9 v5 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v4.1 :

General Improvements

Corrector

  • Refined language detection
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts
  • Anti-Oops!: new keyboard shortcut to send an email (Alt-S)
  • New keyboard shortcut to browse through the tabs in Style view
  • Improved recognition of ignored words list
  • Improved preservation of the state between two correction sessions

Dictionaries

  • Automatic detection of the right language for multiword searches
  • Improved ordering of results for multiword search
  • Addition of new World Heritage Sites
  • Recognition of territorial reform in France
  • Updated encoding of links to Termium
  • Faster display of word combinations

Various Improvements

  • New setting for automatically saving Antidote’s documents
  • Personal dictionary
    • Import from UTF-16 documents
    • Addition of an existing dictionary by double-clicking on the file
  • Modal dialogues from Antidote no longer prevent the Windows session from closing
  • Improved positioning of windows when a monitor is disconnected
  • Better display on monitors with high resolution (HiDPI)
  • Improved stability, particularly when the Narrator is active
  • Various minor fixes

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Improved correction of capitals (He went up North. > He went up north.)
  • More alerts for uncommon word sequences for speakers with low ability (We feel can’t wait until then.)
  • Improved correction of commas after introductory expressions (When we finally arrived he had left. > When we finally arrived, he had left.)
  • Alerts for possible incorrect question marks (I need more time? > I need more time.)
  • Alert for indicative instead of subjunctive (If I was you, I would try. > If I were you, I would try.)
  • Anti-Oups!
    • Detection of more mentions of attachments
  • New setting for spacing between sentences
  • New setting for flagging words whose meanings change with a capital letter

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 2000 new words (e.g. clicktivism, greenwashing, Latinx)

Guides

  • Updated
  • 7 new articles

New Features for French

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Improved recognition of dates
  • Correction of short greetings (sincère salutation > Sincères salutations,)
  • Improved correction of capitalized words at the beginning of a sentence
  • New setting for correction of capitalized words at the beginning of a sentence

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 200 new words (e.g. climatonégationnisme, ludifier, nihonium)

Guides

  • Updated
  • 5 new articles
  • Improved search when ligatures are present

New Integrations

  • Compatibility with Windows 10 Creators Update
  • Handling of Markdown tags
  • Integration with Grav (Firefox, Google Chrome)
  • Integration with Firefox 54
  • Integration with Firefox ESR 52
  • Integration with Google Chrome 59
  • Integration with Thunderbird 52

Improvements to Integrations

  • Firefox
    • Complete rewrite of integration
    • Faster loading of Web pages
  • Google Documents
    • Improved handling of large documents
  • GroupWise
    • Improved handling of selected text after a replacement
  • LibreOffice (Writer)
    • Recognition of comments and text zones
    • Faster correction of footnotes and frames
  • MS Excel
    • Ability to correct a single column or row
  • MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word
    • Integration with ActiveX controls
  • MS Word
    • Faster synchronization when footnotes are present
  • Thunderbird
    • Recognition of delayed sending
    • Elimination of 6000/6030 errors in a number of cases
  • WordPerfect
    • Faster synchronization
    • Improved CPU usage
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Multi-User Installations

  • Faster opening of corrector window for network user profiles
  • Better contrast in selection highlight on Windows Serveur 2008 R2

Antidote 9 v4.1 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v4 :

New Integrations

  • Integration with Firefox 50
  • Integration with Google Chrome 54
  • Integration with llustrator CC 2017 (21.0)
  • Integration with InCopy CC 2017 (12.0)
  • Integration with InDesign CC 2017 (12.0)
  • Integration with LibreOffice 5.2 (now in 64 bits)
  • Integration with Postbox 5.0
  • Integration with SDL Trados Studio Professional 2015 SR2 and 2017 (SDL connector required)

Improvements to Integrations

  • Antidote Agent
    • Execution of the default action upon double-clicking the icon​
  • MS Excel 2013, 2016
    • Restoration to previous state of windows upon closing the corrector
  • Postbox
    • Quick Reply mode supported
  • Thunderbird
    • Closing of the corrector after an email is sent
    • “Error 6030” eliminated in several contexts
    • “The corrector did not receive any text” message eliminated in several contexts

General Improvements to Integrations (from previous connector updates)

  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Antidote 9 v4 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v3 :

General New Features and Improvements

Corrector

  • Refined language detection
    • Detection of different languages within the same sentence (with quotation marks or parentheses)
    • Correction of quotation marks according to the typographic conventions of the surrounding text’s language
    • Improved recognition of words from personal dictionaries
  • New setting allowing corrections to be disabled in one language
  • The option to display percentages in the Style view

Anti-Oops!

  • New setting to turn off verification in one language
  • Improved recognition of personal dictionaries

Other

  • Better display on monitors with high resolution (HiDPI)
  • Fix for instances of external resources not being retained
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Detection of discontinuity (missing or superfluous words, etc.)
  • New setting for flagging unknown alphanumeric sequences (e.g. LOG-5)
  • New setting for flagging abbreviated decades (e.g. ’90s)

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 7000 new words (102,000 in total) (e.g. bibimbap, botnet, crowdsourcing)
  • 15,000 new synonyms
  • New etymological notes, now more than 200 in total
  • New “Location” field for more accurate definitions of names of places
  • New links to the guides from the definitions

Guides

  • Updated
  • 6 new articles
  • New “Language Matters” guide covers complex subjects

New Features for French

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Links to definitions from the corrector’s tooltips
  • New settings for ‹ single French quotation marks ›​
  • New setting for spacing around dashes

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 600 new words (bibimbap, juricomptable, supraluminique)
  • 1,400 additions to the “Difficulté” section
  • New “Location” field for more accurate definitions of names of places

Guides

  • Updated
  • 4 new articles

New Integrations

  • Compatibility with « Windows 10 Anniversary Update »
  • Integration with Firefox 48
  • Integration with Google Chrome 52

Improvements to Integrations

  • MS Word
    • Improved stability
  • WordPerfect
    • Faster opening of Antidote dictionaries and guides
    • Removal of character shift messages in various contexts

Cumulative Integration Improvements (from previous connector updates)

  • Integration with WordPerfect X8
  • Firefox, Google Chrome
    • Improved handling of HTML lists
    • Fewer communication error messages
    • Clearer presentation of error messages
  • Google Documents
    • Better integration
    • “The corrector did not receive any text” message eliminated in various contexts
  • GroupWise, MS Outlook, Postbox, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail
    • Removal of unwarranted error messages in Anti-Oops!
  • Internet Explorer, Notepad, WordPad
    • Floating toolbar no longer displayed in the background
  • Internet Explorer, Windows Live Mail
    • Better integration
  • LibreOffice
    • Accelerated synchronization with long documents
    • Improved correction of footnotes
  • MS Word
    • Removal of character shift messages for documents stored in the cloud (OneDrive)
    • Correction of accidental carriage returns at the head and foot of a page
    • Improved stability, particularly when a corrector window is closed and there are multiple layers of text boxes
  • Thunderbird
    • Complete rewrite of integration
    • Removal of erroneous “email modified” messages in long emails
    • Removal of overdetection of spaces in saved draft emails
    • Possibility to include signatures
    • Improved stability
  • WordPerfect
    • No more erroneous “euro” symbols in correction
  • Various Improvements
    • Elimination of the Message « The Antidote Agent could not be launched » when loging in
    • Fix for instances of external resources not being retained
    • Reduced use of the processor by the Antidote Agent.

Multi-User Installations

  • Correction of cases where certain Antidote 8 files weren't erased during the installation of Antidote 9.
  • Personalization window eliminated during a silent installation

Antidote 9 v3 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v2 :

New Features for English

  • More accurate corrections
  • Faster Anti-Oops! start-up speed
  • 47 new etymological notes
  • Guides updated
  • Various minor fixes in the dictionaries

New Features for French

  • More accurate corrections
  • 19 new etymological notes
  • Guides updated (including a new Language Matters article)

Improvements to Integrations

  • Word
    • improved handling of forms, faster synchronization
  • MS Office
    • improved software detection by Connectix
  • WordPerfect
    • improved stability

Various Improvements

  • Punctual improvements of language identification
  • Improved Stability
  • Various Minor Fixes

Multi-User Installations

  • Network deployment of Antidote (GPO, Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Server), batch files)
  • Silent installation
  • Ability to use with limited accounts
  • Ability to use with Roaming Profile
  • New settings for managing personal dictionariess

Antidote 9 v2 Windows

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v1 :

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate corrections
  • Correction of double negatives (ex.: I don’t have no time for this.)
  • Correction of non-paired quotation marks and parentheses
  • Correction of position of closing parenthesis relative to period
  • Improved handling of some words beginning with a capital letter

Dictionaries

  • 900 new words (acrospire, Arecibo, palsy-walsy)
  • Dictionaries updated
  • Improved display of some IPA phonetic transcriptions
  • Various minor fixes

Guides

  • Several articles updated
  • One new article (“Middle English”)

New Features for French

Corrector

  • More accurate corrections
  • Personal dictionaries: improved handling of capital letters with accents

Dictionaries

  • 100 new words (bistronomie, orexigène, polyclonal)
  • Dictionaries updated
  • Various minor fixes

Guides

  • Several articles updated
  • One new article

New Integrations

  • Integration with Firefox 42
  • Integration with Google Chrome 47

Improvements to Integrations

  • Google Documents
    • fix for problem relating to misplaced corrections
  • MS Word
    • improved stability
  • Postbox
    • improved Anti-Oops! performance
  • Windows Live Mail
    • correction of subject

Various Improvements

  • Anti-Oops!
    • fixed unnecessary intervention
  • Option to resize dictionaries column
  • Specific improvements to language identification
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes