What's new in ChimpRewriter 3.1.5447
May 28, 2015
- New: Option for persistent sessions (enabled by default) to save on exit and restore on load all open files and unsaved texts. Unsaved texts are saved into a temporary file and restored into new documents on application load.
- New: Ability to load load Chimp Rewriter 2 Thesauri. This dramatically increases the languages available to Chimp Rewriter 3.
- New: Option in the settings form to enable or disable Chimp Spintax Extensions. Spintax extensions are used to increase the number of spin variations and reduce the size of the file. Disabling Spintax extensions allows Spintax to be directly copied from the editor into a third party application. Extensions can be use dby the Tip Creator, N-Spin and Multimedia scrapers.
- Fixed: Resolved several bugs with Rapid Rewrite.
- Fixed: Incorrect identification of Spintax error.
- Fixed: Occasional crash when selecting words in the Synonym Selector.
- New: Added Unicode support for spell checking, selected word highlighting and Quick View pane.
- New: Added ability to select spelling dictionaries. Spell dictionaries are set to Automatic by default and follow the selected thesaurus. However, the user can now manually set a spell dictionary allowing for example English UK spelling to be used with the English thesaurus.
- New: Added startup Tips to assist new users to rapidly learn all the features of Chimp Rewriter.
- New: Added two new save types to the Profile editor. This includes: Save as Plain Text (convert HTML to plain text and remove HTML tags) and save as Rich Text.
- Fixed: Default save profile has been changed to Text to stop inadvertent stripping of HTML tags.
- New: Added dropdown selection to Spin & Preview Save All to allow the user to save as any file type.
- Fixed: Paragraph spin sometimes adds additional leading carriage returns when spun.
- Fixed: Spin All and Replace All in Synonym Selector now work with multi-word selections.
- New: New option in settings form to enable Auto Save to create a backup file of the file when it was last manually saved. Therefore, if auto save inadvertently overwrites the file, the user can restore the previous contents from the backup file.
- New: Added new options in settings form to select Word Run, Copyscape duplication and similarities highlight colors.
- Fixed: Quick View pane sometimes loses synch with the main editor and selects the wrong text.
- New: Spell check may now be disabled on all documents using a dropdown on the Spelling button in the Edit menu.
- Fixed: Fixed several spelling mistakes in the tooltip help.
New in ChimpRewriter 2.1.4914 (Jul 5, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Added a new option to the Editor section of the settings window to enable or disable automatic anchor tag wrapping of URLs when the editor is converted to HTML.
- Added a favorite group to the top of the Synonym Selector allowing all favorites to be applied to a word or phrase with a single click.
- Improved update speed of very large documents. The interface could seem laggy with very large documents (50,000+ words). Several improvements have been implemented to speed background tasks, coloring and responsiveness while editing very large documents.
- Bug Fixes:
- Profile load issue causes two profiles to be removed on each successive start, resulting in only one profile being available after the third start. This has now been resolved. An interim fix has been implemented to return the profiles back to restored state on affected systems.
- Fixed spin cleaner bug stopping removal of synonyms matching the word before the spin if the word before the spin is the first word of a paragraph.
- Removed part of speech determination during a favorite spin operation.
- Spin is now applied to the main editor rather than the current focused editor (for example the variation editor) when performing a spin all, phrase spin all or favorite spin all operation.
- Resolved anchor tag issue causing spin to be incorrectly formatted when spinning URLs.
- Fixed non-English language resource file re-download on startup issue.
- Resolved colortextbox on selection “value not set to reference object” exception occurring on startup in a small number of installations.
New in ChimpRewriter 2.1.4907 (Jul 5, 2014)
- The following bug fixes have been addressed:
- Incorrect license checks close Chimp Rewriter in evaluation mode.
- Spin Tags replaced with empty spin.
- Ordered spin incorrectly defaulting to random spin ordering.
- HTML not properly rendered in the HTML spin viewer in Spin View and Spin & Compare.
- HTML files not correctly saved in Spin and Save and Export features.
- Some users experience a lockup on start at “Registering Plugins”.
- “SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault” fault during startup.
- File manifest crash on MD5 checksum verification.
- Pressing Spin in HTML browser spin view mode causes a NULL fault.
- Auto load after installation causes some issues. Functionality to be removed.
- Threading and object not exist errors experienced by some users.
- Part of speech tokenizer crash on startup.
- Chimp task stays unning after application shuts down.
New in ChimpRewriter 2.1.4904 (Jul 5, 2014)
- New Features:
- The new “Spin Editor” works as follows: If you click in the document editor it spins and loads the current sentence and paragraph into the Spin Editor and highlights the current location within the paragraph/sentence. If you click in the sentence or paragraph box in the Spin Editor then it locates the text in the document editor. Text is colored within the Spin Editor – blue is spun text and black is unspun text. You can generate spin versions or original version by using buttons in the toolbar. You can use the Synonym Selector to spin the current word.
- A crazy new thesaurus is available for the first time in this version. We added some really cool statistical analysis to the previous version of Chimp and using this information we were able to tweak and adjust our weighting algorithms to amazing effect.
- A “Command” attribute has been added to the profile editor. The command can be used to execute a program or script after each profile has finished exporting. Commands may also include the following special syntax: [filename] for export file name and path, [name] for export name only, [path] for export path only, [profile] for profile name
- Improvements:
- Document statistics are now displayed for each document in the Spin & Compare form.
- Spin View now remembers and returns to current vertical scroll location after each spin.
- Memory usage is significantly optimized allowing very large documents to be spun 100’s of times without causing an out of memory error.
- The speed of spinning documents is now significantly increased.The speed improvements are realized in the Spin View, Spin & Compare and export functions.
- A new and updated Part of Speech engine has resulted in greater accuracy of part of speech determination for words and synonyms.
- Document statistics now show total character count in the Spin View.
- New code has been added to allow language resource files to be automatically downloaded for different languages. This will allow language files to set the text of buttons, help text and so on. Stay tuned for regular language specific updates.
- Upgrading from Basic version to Pro version no longer requires the application to be shut down and restarted.
- A checkbox has been added to the upgrade window allowing the current version upgrade to be ignored.
- The auto updater has been re-enabled allowing updates to be applied without downloading and reinstalling each new version.
- Project and density tabs can now be opened/closed from the edit menu.
- Bug Fixes:
- Rapid Rewriter selection sometimes jumps back to a spun section causing Rapid Rewriter to “get stuck”.
- Manually adding synonyms within the Rapid Rewriter textbox causes the synonym to be inserted into the wrong location.
- Copyscape API highlighting disappears during text editing.
- Profile text encoding always defaults to ASCII encoding.
- RTL text causes highlighting and cursor location problems.
- Learning from existing spin does not learn all synonyms.
- Fixed several “index out of range” and null exceptions within the colortextbox control.
- Changes to project values for signatures, tags and snippets do not update until after application restart.
- Pressing the restore button in the options menu does not enable the apply button.
- Profile export HTML file type does not work.
- Overriding the export copy control mode or number of copies in the export manager does not work.
- GDI exception on startup.
- Exception in user class when determining machine code identifier.
- Opening a new tab after all tabs have been closed causes the new tab to be shown in the “restored” state instead of the maximized state.
New in ChimpRewriter 1.3.4075 (Mar 1, 2011)
- Fixed issue where special apostrophes (left or right) in spun text get added to the start of the spin if the word containing the apostrophe was not selected.
- Fixed minor display issue in browser view mode.
- Auto selection of spin and text for the different spinners is now a lot smarter. This addresses several issues such as: not selecting all spin braces, incorrect selection of text using next/previous buttons, better selection of sentences inside sentence spin and more.
- Fixed bug where selecting next text using quickspin next button sometimes caused the application to lockup.
- Fixed bug where “spin all” would cause the spin to replace existing synonyms if spinning a sub-selection of the first synonym.