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Version 2.6.0

Widgit Health Symbols are now available for English UK users. They are available to purchase as an add-on or are included with some subscriptions for InPrint 3 and Widgit Online users. Find out more about Widgit Health Symbols.

Widgit Health Symbols

Version 2.5.4

Widgit Symbol Update: Improvements to Eyes, Emotions and Expressions (More information)

April 2022

Changes to emotions, eyes and expressions. Changes to emotions, eyes and expression symbols.

Version 2.5

April 2021

Symbol Update 2021

Varied Skin Tones

Symbol Update 2021

More Inclusive, More Relevant, More Symbols

To support self-expression and vocabulary comprehension for our users, we've been working on a major update to the Widgit Symbols to better represent the culture and technology of the world we live in.

Legacy Symbols:

Legacy symbols

2021 Symbols:

New symbols

Accessing Legacy Symbols:
For a time-limited period, you will still be able to access the legacy symbols, this may help make the transition easier for some learners. To do this, you can choose to use the Legacy Symbols from Settings, in the File menu. Then select the System tab and tick "Use Legacy Widgit Symbols".

For more information visit www.widgit.com/symbols2021

Version 2.4

June 2020

New Coronavirus Symbols

Version 2.3

October 2018

Support for changing the formatting for Boxed Picwords

Support for using the system set proxy

Version 2.2

June 2017

Support for Page Breaks

Boxed Words

Scottish voices

Version 3.6.0

August 2022

Symbol Update

  • Widgit Health Symbols are available for English UK users

Version 2.5.4

April 2022

Symbol update

  • Improvements to Eyes, Emotions, and Expressions (More information)

Version 2.5.2

May 2021

Hotfix

  • Fixed recolouring of symbols with only one color

Remote support

  • We have removed a TeamViewer executable that we used for remote support from this version

Version 2.5.0

April 2021

New Symbols

  • We have added an option to enable our legacy symbols

Version 2.4.0

June 2020

New Coronavirus Symbols

  • We have added 51 new Coronavirus related symbols.

Version 2.3.3

April 2020

Language update

  • Support for Danish has been upgraded from 2.1 to 2.3

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a communication issue between Widgit Online and SymWriter

Version 2.3.2

March 2020

Symbol update

  • Added Coronavirus related symbols

Language update

  • Support for Latvian has been upgraded from 2.0 to 2.3

Improvements

  • Upgraded communication to our activation servers to use TLS 1.2

Bug fixes

  • Latvian text-to-speech voices should correctly register as available voices
  • Fixed an issue where changing orientation or paper size in print view caused the document to disappear

Version 2.3.1

October 2018

Bug fixes

  • Updated the Symboliser Core, including general bug fixes and improved translations for some languages

Version 2.3.0

October 2018

Improvements

  • Support for using the system set proxy
  • Support for changing the formatting for Boxed Picwords

Bug fixes

  • Provide better error messages when requesting trials
  • Fixed an intermittent Widgit Product Activator crash on startup
  • Crash fixes, bug fixes, and minor improvements to SymWriter

Version 2.2.5

October 2018

Improvements

  • Updated Norwegian SDB to latest
  • Updated Norwegian .ts files to latest

Bug fixes

  • Updated Xelda license to not expire until 1st January 2031

Version 2.2.4

August 2018

Bug fixes

  • Added SSL support to activator

Version 2.2.3

March 2018

Improvements

  • Add TeamViewer to Norwegian builds
  • Session activation should write an activation log in %appdata%
  • Allow typing the dashes in the product key
  • Boxed words margin should be reduced
  • Change order of skin tones menu to match InPrint 3

Bug fixes

  • Mixed boxed word formatting can cause boxes to display over text
  • Document fails to open in 2.2 (which opened ok in 2.1)
  • "ljuset är släckt" doesn't symbolise correctly in Swedish
  • Double clicking to open an environment document from Windows Explorer fails
  • Undo/Redo of a page break results in program crash
  • Displaying symbol chooser results for words with many options is extremely slow (backport)
  • Create the idioms file for Finnish
  • Some words for 'hello' don't symbolise in finnish
  • SymWriter Maintenance 2.2 installers are failing because of missing .qch files
  • Missing capital V symbol in Canadian

Version 2.2.2

October 2017

New Language

  • Support for Finnish

Version 2.2.1

October 2017

New Language

  • Support for Italian

Bug fixes

  • Assert when Graphic Browser Item Size is set to Tiny or Small
  • The text \n[--+ in Swedish crashes the symboliser
  • Swedish Symbolisation stops working after -- and a character
  • Some Italian Idioms do not appear the first time they are typed
  • Show Parts of Speech does nothing in Italian
  • Underline is not shown in the font previewer
  • Widgit Bridge initialises its own resource cache
  • SymWriter no longer obeys the --soap-port parameter

Version 2.2.0

June 2017

New Features

  • Support for Page Breaks
  • Boxed Words
  • Scottish voices

Bug fixes

  • "went" to not working with proper qualifier
  • Qualifier settings for idioms are lost on save & reload
  • Skin tone variants do not work
  • Typing unicode character "゚" locks up the symboliser and corrupts process memory
  • Can't create a desktop shortcut on Windows 10
  • Crash when CTRL double clicking to create a linked grid

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