SymWriter
Contact Widgit
Email: support@widgit.com
Tel: 01926 333680
2024 Widgit Schema Update: We have made changes to the Widgit Symbol Schema for family and gender. See the 2024 Widgit Schema Update page for more information.
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 and Widgit Online users. Find out more about Widgit Health Symbols.
Widgit Symbol Update: Improvements to Eyes, Emotions and Expressions (More information)
April 2022
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:
2021 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
New Coronavirus Symbols
Support for changing the formatting for Boxed Picwords
Support for using the system set proxy
Support for Page Breaks
Boxed Words
Scottish voices
Symbol Schema Update
We have made changes to the Widgit Symbol Schema for family and gender. See the 2024 Widgit Schema Update page for more information.
Symbol Acknowledgements
We have added symbols and acknowledgements for the following organisations:
Visit Widgit Symbol Acknowledgments for more information.
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
New Symbols
- We have added an option to enable our legacy symbols
New Coronavirus Symbols
- We have added 51 new Coronavirus related symbols.
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
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
Bug fixes
- Updated the Symboliser Core, including general bug fixes and improved translations for some languages
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
Improvements
- Updated Norwegian SDB to latest
- Updated Norwegian .ts files to latest
Bug fixes
- Updated Xelda license to not expire until 1st January 2031
Bug fixes
- Added SSL support to activator
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
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
New Language
- Support for Finnish
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
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