Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 Standalone Edition

Update 4.6.6 – April 5, 2012

A new update for Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 is now available - Version 4.6.6. This is a free update for registered Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 customers.

We recommend that all Version 4 Standalone Edition customers upgrade to Version 4.6.6, which is a cumulative update with all previous updates. For details on chnages in version 4.6.6, see this Read Me file.

All product editions of the Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh product – Standalone, Network (Engine, Administrator and Client) and Web License Client – are now on a DVD instead of a CD. From the DVD window, select the product edition you want and drag and drop its icon to your Applications folder. For more details on installation, go to the Installation Notes section in this Read Me file.

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Update 4.6.5 – March 1, 2012

A new update for Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 is now available - Version 4.6.5. This is a free update for registered Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 customers.

We recommend that all Version 4 Standalone Edition customers upgrade to Version 4.6.5, which is a cumulative update with all previous updates. For details on chnages in version 4.6.5, see this Read Me file.

All product editions of the Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh product – Standalone, Network (Engine, Administrator and Client) and Web License Client – are now on a DVD instead of a CD. From the DVD window, select the product edition you want and drag and drop its icon to your Applications folder. For more details on installation, go to the Installation Notes section in this Read Me file.

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Update 4.6.4 – February 2, 2012

A new update for Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 is now available - Version 4.6.4. This is a free update for registered Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 customers.

We recommend that all Version 4 Standalone Edition customers upgrade to Version 4.6.4, which is a cumulative update with all previous updates. For details on chnages in version 4.6.4, see this Read Me file.

All product editions of the Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh product – Standalone, Network (Engine, Administrator and Client) and Web License Client – are now on a DVD instead of a CD. From the DVD window, select the product edition you want and drag and drop its icon to your Applications folder. For more details on installation, go to the Installation Notes section in this Read Me file.

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Update 4.6.3 – January 5, 2012

A new update for Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 is now available - Version 4.6.3. This is a free update for registered Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 4 customers.

We recommend that all Version 4 Standalone Edition customers upgrade to Version 4.6.3, which is a cumulative update with all previous updates.

All product editions of the Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh product – Standalone, Network (Engine, Administrator and Client) and Web License Client – are now on a DVD instead of a CD. From the DVD window, select the product edition you want and drag and drop its icon to your Applications folder. For more details on installation, go to the Installation Notes section in this Read Me file.

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Changes in Version 4.6 – October 6, 2011

• Updated Read the Web Firefox add-on.
• Enabled "Alex" voice for reading.

Changes in Version 4.5 – June 8, 2011

• Updated 'Read the Web' FireFox extension to support FireFox 4.
• Allow a user to edit zones without having to re-recognize.
• Resolved Issues:
• Bubble Notes not opening with Choose One or Choose Multiple options.
• Bubble Notes not opening when a semi-colon is in title or text.
• Slowness when Word Prediction deals with long unknown words.
• Word Prediction not having as many suggestions as it should.

Changes in Version 4.5 - December 6, 2010

• Multiple bookmarks being created for single word is fixed, allowing users to create only one bookmark per word.
• Fixed issue with bookmarks changing order when renaming a bookmark on a page with multiple bookmarks, and when inserting a bookmark between two other bookmarks.
• Removed repeated beeping sound when moving the mouse while the Bookmarks drawer is opened and has focus, and on start up.
• Fixed bookmarks list not displaying in sort order.

Changes in Version 4.0.3 - March 8, 2010

• In image files, when using the Bookmark tool after clicking the space immediately following a word, multiple Bookmarks would appear for that same word.
• Bubble Notes created in a new text document would either not read while the document was being read or would be overwritten with other Bubble Notes content.
• Using the Eraser tool to remove highlighting on an open text file would cause Kurzweil 3000 to lock up on Mac OS 10.4.
• When opening any existing document, then using any function under Edit Find menu (as well as Command+F) Kurzweil 3000 would quit unexpectedly. This occurred with Kurzweil 3000 v4.0 and v4.0.1 running on Snow Leopard.
• In Kurzweil 3000 v4.0.1, when a document had been saved under one user and then opened under a different user, and the second user used the Scan Next Page function, the last page scanned by the original user would be inserted instead of the page currently on the scanner.
• When adding multiple Bookmarks to a page and another Bookmark was added in between two of the original bookmarks and the user then clicked each of the bookmarks in the right-hand pane, starting at the first one, the bookmarks would re-order.
• A couple of beeping issues: when the Bookmarks drawer was open and had focus, and the mouse was moved; and upon startup when the file opened did not have a thumbnail image.
• Word Prediction crashed when adding space at the end of a document.
• Broken Help > Kurzweil 3000 Help command.
• After using the Bookmark tool in a .kes document, you could not select or use another tool (e.g. the Selector tool) from the floating tools window until the Bookmarks side panel was closed by clicking View -> Bookmarks.
• After using the Bookmarks tool to set some bookmarks in a document, clicking the Selector tool should switch the Bookmark tool to the Selector tool, but Kurzweil 3000 wasn't doing so.
• Bookmarks added in a text document were not using the bookmarked word for the default bookmark name.
• Print, PDF and online documentation have not been updated to 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.0.3.

Changes for 4.0.2.

• If the properties of the KESI file were edited in Windows Explorer, the Mac client would be unable to read the file. This was fixed.

Changes in Version 4.0.1

• Fixed issue with Leopard when in Administrator and taking licenses off Hasp key, but not getting transferred to Server.
• Fixed many issues with running with Mac OS X version 10.5 "Leopard" operating system, including scanning.
• Fixed Help files.
• Fixed feature enabling Tab between Text Notes on image.
• Fixed issue where page numbering changes were ignored.
• Fixed issue when Study Skills Palette would become disabled.
• Fixed reading ability in Word Prediction window.
• Fixed Edit Underlying Text issues and added keyboard shortcut to access (Shift+Command+E).
• Fixed issue with opening files from Classic Literature CD.
• Fixed issue with punctuation before or after words affecting looking up words in dictionary.
• Fixed footnote numbering.
• Corrections for some odd behaviors in the Word Prediction, Find and Replace, and Bubble Notes features.
• Fixed issue in scanning when Rotate Image flips black and white.

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NOTICE - You will not have to re-register the product after upgrading.

If you are planning to run Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh on Mac OS X 10.4, you must run it on version 10.4.1 in order for the scanning functions in the Professional version to work correctly.

If you have any questions about Version 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, or 4.5, please contact Kurzweil 3000 Technical Support at (800) 894-5374 or kurzweil3000macsupport@kurzweiledu.com.

For immediate assistance, please contact customer service at 800-894-5374.