Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Frustrated with how slow Wordfast Pro can be
Poster: Paul Reeve
Post title: Sluggishness on every character with both Mac and Windows versions of WFP in even medium-sized files
I have been using WFP for years, never on really large files (usually in the low hundreds of segments), often with quite small TMs, and I systematically have a problem after I've translated maybe a hundred segments: the program begins to respond sluggishly on every single keystroke, with a noticeable, distracting and functionally problematic lag between the keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding character. The delay seems to be cumulative, so the more typing I do the greater the wait until all the characters appear. I have systematically experienced this in both the Mac version, on a recent MacBook Air with decent specs (now a few years old but it was true from the outset), and the Windows version, on different machines I've had to use for this or that reason, basically always with the latest version of WFP. I usually just break up the source file (more or less always a Word file) into small pieces (a few pages) and translate those. But I happen right now to be translating a file with some page layout characteristics that make doing that problematic (copying and pasting won't readily yield a single file that looks like the original). The font change to Times New Roman didn't seem to help. Guess I'll try OmegaT!
Topic: Frustrated with how slow Wordfast Pro can be
Poster: Paul Reeve
Post title: Sluggishness on every character with both Mac and Windows versions of WFP in even medium-sized files
I have been using WFP for years, never on really large files (usually in the low hundreds of segments), often with quite small TMs, and I systematically have a problem after I've translated maybe a hundred segments: the program begins to respond sluggishly on every single keystroke, with a noticeable, distracting and functionally problematic lag between the keystroke and the appearance of the corresponding character. The delay seems to be cumulative, so the more typing I do the greater the wait until all the characters appear. I have systematically experienced this in both the Mac version, on a recent MacBook Air with decent specs (now a few years old but it was true from the outset), and the Windows version, on different machines I've had to use for this or that reason, basically always with the latest version of WFP. I usually just break up the source file (more or less always a Word file) into small pieces (a few pages) and translate those. But I happen right now to be translating a file with some page layout characteristics that make doing that problematic (copying and pasting won't readily yield a single file that looks like the original). The font change to Times New Roman didn't seem to help. Guess I'll try OmegaT!