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Readability Studio Changes

2007 Release

New Feature:
  • All new Project Assistant sidebar.
  • New Dale-Chall and Revised Spache word lists can now be displayed in a sidebar. This can be a useful reference when reviewing the unfamiliar words in your document.
  • Custom familiar-word tests. You can create new tests using your own word lists, as well as create tests based on Dale-Chall or Spache and append your own words to them.
  • The statistics section now includes warnings for any issues encountered in your document. For example, if your document has a large average sentence length, then this statistic is highlighted and a note indicating the problem is included.
  • The overly-long sentence window now displays the word count after every sentence.
  • Numerous new graph options, including:
    • Ability to apply a color fade to your backgrounds.
    • Ability to control the opacity of your backgrounds.
    • Ability to add a logo or watermark to your graphs.
    • Ability to customize the bar chart appearance.
    • Ability to save graphs in greyscale mode.
  • More control over how difficult words and sentences are highlighted. You can toggle between highlighting the background of the word or set the word’s font to the highlight color.
  • Standard deviation and median are now included in the readability score section (statistics display must be set to verbose).
  • More control over how sentences are deduced.

1.1.2 Release

New Feature:
  • Added list of all words (and their respective frequency counts) to the difficult words section.

1.1.1 Release

New Features:
  • Number of proper nouns added to the statistics.
  • Improved support for proper noun detection. Some tests may produce slightly lower results than previous versions.
  • Updated documentation.

1.1 Release

New Features:
  • Webpages can now be analyzed.
  • Added RIX readability test.
  • Added option to exclude incomplete sentences from the analysis.
  • Added option to toggle the detail of statistics.
  • Added options to change the graph title and axis fonts.
  • Added options to change the graphs' background colors.
  • Added options to set an image as the graphs' background.
  • Added support for printer headers and footers.
  • Improved inclusion of punctuation in the highlighted text windows.
  • Averages of the readability scores and age levels are now included in the results window.
  • Added "technical document" as a document type in the New Project wizard.
  • Added new option "New project from clipboard" as a shortcut to create a new project using the text on the clipboard.
  • UTF-8 encoded files now supported.
  • Added option to word list exporter to save only the selected rows.
  • Improved HTML importer.
  • Improved syllable counter, including better support for acronyms and hyphenated words.
  • New examples and technical notes added to the documentation.


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