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64-bit version of Studio

Jay Young
- Under Community Review
- 64 Comments
Please create a 64-bit version of Studio. At present only a 32-bit version is available, and therefore it can theoretically only access 2-3GB of system memory, meaning that upgrading your machine with more memory then this does not have any beneficial...
- 22 May 2017 9:31 AM
Source file System field in SDLTMs

Miriam Santos Freire
- Under Community Review
- 9 Comments
Hi, Creating a new idea just for the Source file System field in Studio. Please do consider having a Source file system field in SDLTMs which capture at least the file where that segment was first created. Filepath and name would be ideal but filename...
- 5 Sep 2017 2:14 PM
File types and filters for Graphics

Pawel Lakner
- Idea Delivered Partially
- 12 Comments
Would it be possible to develop File Types for Illustrator (.ai, .eps) and Photoshop (.psd)? Tech Delivery has multiple projects where has to use external tools (which are not perfect and time-consuming) to export text from Graphics (Illustrator and...
- 21 Nov 2017 9:17 AM
TM Management Tool

Maite Sádaba Champetier de Ribes
- Under Community Review
- 17 Comments
With client's TMs growing bigger every year, it is inevitable to have obsolete segments, old terminology, incosistencies, etc., which pollute TMs over time. In order to maintain the quality of TMs it is crucial that SDL develops a tool to perform TM...
- 1 Aug 2017 12:19 PM
Show character count for selected text (also across segments)

Ladislav Hlavatý
- Under Community Review
- 7 Comments
Until now Studio is showing character count only for active target segment (after last update without spaces, but this is different topic). It would be nice to also display character count for selected text only (+ enable this even across segments)....
- 25 Sep 2017 2:08 PM
Multiple termbases for term verification

Yuji Yamamoto
- Under Community Review
- 0 Comments
It would be nice if we could use multiple termbases for term verification.
- 24 May 2017 7:24 AM
Enable shortcuts for all formatting options

Tammy Koopmans-Lee
- Under Community Review
- 1 Comment
Currently, Studio support for formatting shortcuts are somewhat limited. It would be great if we could enable creation of custom shortcuts for all formatting types, especially those under the Quick insert tags, such as highlighting. Example. Currently...
- 23 Jul 2019 1:41 PM
Get rid of the information message "This project has already been opened"

Thomas Vackier
- Under Community Review
- 1 Comment
Just make the project active instead of showing this message.
- 26 Sep 2017 2:27 PM
Target language selector in the new project wizard, auto-substitution settings and some other remarks

David Lopez Del Precinto
- Under Community Review
- 2 Comments
Dear community, I am writing this message, since we are about to migrate to SDL Trados Studio 2019 and noticed some issues that we would like to share with you. On the one hand, the new language selector for the target languages in the project wizard...
- 20 Feb 2019 12:52 PM
Shortcut to select all shown segments in one go

Jerzy Czopik
- Idea Delivered
- 9 Comments
Our competitor allows you to select all segments by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+A. In Studio however, you have to click, scroll, shift and click. Why not a shortcut for this?
- 8 Feb 2019 1:03 PM