January 10, 2013

New version of Jardic Pro 7.2 is available for download.

Now you can download additional dictionaries directly from Jardic Pro.

To download additional dictionaries press button of the main toolbar or select Dictionary → Dictionaries... menu command. A window with the list of installed dictionaries will appear.

In this window press button. A list of dictionaries awailable for download will appear.

To download a dictionary or to update it select dictionary line in the list and press Install Dictionary button.

October 20, 2012

Jardic Pro 7.1.1 is available for download. The program contains following improvements:

• You can insert formatted text of dictionary articles into other documents. To do this you have to select required words in a list of words, right-click on the list, and press "Copy" in the menu that will appear. After that you can insert a text of dictionary articles into another document using "Paste" command, for example, into Microsoft Word document. With this feature you can add dictionary articles to the text that you translate, like it is shown below:
  
• "Print" function that sends a text to a printer or into a file now can send output to the clipboard.
• The function that translates words of the text and prepares a list of translated words now compares whether words are equal in katakana and hiragana writing. This is useful because Japanese texts often contain animal or plant names written in katakana, but related dictionary entries contain hiragana records.
• In the "Clipboard monitor mode" the program switches to the List of Translated Words every time you copy a word or text into the clipboard.

September 7, 2012 г.

Jardic Pro 7.1 is available for download. The program contains new features and fixes for found bugs.

New features:

• Program settings moved into one common dialog box.
• New parameters are added to specify behavior of the list of translated words. For example, the list of translated words can be partially expanded or collapsed; translation of Japanese words consisting of 1 kana character can be skipped; selected list items can remain the same between list switches, etc.
• Edited dictionary article can be saved with Ctrl-S keys
• Search words are highlighted in the results of full text (instant) search

Fixed bugs:

• If one of the dictionary articles to be printed ended with italics, next printed article erroneously started with italics
• Errors when looking up for translation of grammar forms of -iru/-eru verbs

June 1, 2012

Jardic Pro 7.0 is available for download. Now with abilities to create personal dictionaries and to edit personal dictionary articles.

You can use personal dictionaries in the same way as other Jardic Pro dictionaries. Additionally you can add new articles, edit and copy articles of personal dictionaries. Any number of personal dictionaries can be created, but you can edit articles of only one personal dictionary at a time, that is called Working dictionary.

During Jardic Pro installation the program creates an empty personal dictionary Personal.jdd.

Dictionaries imported from Jardic Lite automatically become personal.

To create new personal dictionary open Dictionary List and press button.

To select a personal dictionary as Working dictionary highlight the line of the dictionary and press button.

Articles of working dictionary can be edited using Editor Window.

Editing rules:

• The text of an article including head words and translations is placed in one multiline input field
• The text is divided into lines. Each line contain one article item (Reading, Sense, etc.). The text can be splitted into lines with Enter key.
• A type of each line is displayed with an icon at the left of the line
• A type of a line can be set or changed with toolbar buttons
• The sequence of lines is not predefined. It may be: Reading - Kanji - Sense, or: Kanji - Reading - Sense, etc.

After pressing New Window button additional editor window appears with a copy of the text of the article from current window. New window text will be saved as separate dictionary article. Multiple additional editor windows can be opened simultaneously. You can use this feature to split one dictionary article into two or more articles.

After pressing Save button the article is stored in the dictionary and a window closes. The program automatically adds edited articles to the list of Selected articles. With this list you can quickly find latest edited articles.

Editor window is a non-modal window. It means that when the window is opened you can perform other functions including: word search, list scrolling, full-text search, edit other articles, an so on.

February 28, 2012

Hebrew-Russian and Russian-Hebrew dictionaries by Anatoly Kaidalov are added to the list of Jardic Pro dictionaries available for download. We used these dictionaries to test correct work of Jardic Pro with languages that have right-to-left writing system. If you need Hebrew dictionary you can try these dictionaries too.

February 22, 2012

Jardic Pro 6.1 is now available for download. Following are the changes that were included in this build:

• Improvements in the graphic interface. The buttons and menu items now are commented with extended tooltips that make the work with the dictionary more easy. The language of program messages, captions and dialogs can be switched on-the-fly between Russian, English and Japanese on non-localized Windows.
• Additional and personal dictionaries now are stored in the folder:
      <User Name>\Documents\JardicPro\Dictionaries
  Files with printed dictionary articles are stored in the folder:
      <User Name>\Documents\JardicPro
  Names of dictionary files and printed files can be in Japanese.
• Some bugs were fixed. For example, previous versions of the program could not translate words under the cursor in Internet Explorer when zoom value was not equal to 100%.

February 10, 2012

Free Jardic Lite 6.1 is now available for download. Following are the main changes that were included in this build:

• Improvements in the graphic interface. The buttons and menu items now are commented with extended tooltips that make the work with the dictionary more easy. The language of program messages, captions and dialogs can be switched on-the-fly between Russian, English and Japanese on non-localized Windows.
• Additional and personal dictionaries now are stored in the folder:
      <User Name>\Documents\JardicLite\Dictionaries
  Files with printed dictionary articles are stored in the folder:
      <User Name>\Documents\JardicLite
  Names of dictionary files and printed files can be in Japanese.
• Some bugs were fixed. For example, previous versions of the program could not translate words under the cursor in Internet Explorer when zoom value was not equal to 100%.

January 01, 2012

We continue active development of Jardic software in 2012. This year we are going to improve Jardic user interface, add the ability to work with phraseological dictionaries (e.g. a with dictionaries of proverbs or with parallel texts), add new functions to Jardic (e.g. an editor of articles in Jardic Pro).

We are not planning migration of Jardic software to mobile devices in the nearest future.

October 19, 2010

Jardic Pro 6.0.2:

• Support of "Tanaka Corpus" Japanese-English dictionary of sentence pairs, with more then 150,000 entries

October 15, 2010

Jardic Pro 6.0.1:

• The program performs new search after switching displayed list of articles
• A bug is fixed in calculation of result relevancy for Instant Search

October 01, 2010

Jardic Pro 6.0:

• New Instant Search function was added. Improved support of Chinese, updated dictionaries.

Jardic Lite 6.0:

• Available for free now

June 28, 2009

Jardic Pro 5.2.1, Jardic Lite 5.2.1:

• Some issues were fixed related to: articles view, additional dictionary opening, correct work under Windows Vista

April 12, 2009

Jardic Pro 5.2, Jardic Lite 5.2:

• Jardic Pro - ability to work with Large Japanese-Russian Dictionary WARODAI

April 15, 2008

Jardic Pro 5.1:

• Ability to print dictionary articles and save them in RTF file
• New "List of Selected Articles" (can be used to select articles for printing)
• Simultaneous multiple list items selection
• Import of dictionaries in PDIC format
• Bugs fixed: saving of column widths; cross-article search (article links)

January 14, 2008

Jardic Lite 5.1:

• Ability to print dictionary articles and save them in RTF file
• Selection of multiple articles for printing, deletion, etc.