Category: MarcEdit

I’ve been supporting XP now for close to 15 years in MarcEdit, and I’m finding the number of areas in the code where I have to work around XP limitations is continually growing. The tipping point for me occurred about a month ago, when I had to write a new URI parser because the version…

This weekend, I posted a new MarcEdit update.  This is one of the biggest changes that I’ve made in a while.  While the actual changelog is brief — these changes represented ~17k lines of code Windows (~10K not related to UI work) and ~15.5k lines of code on the OSX side (~9K not related to…

As part of the last update, I added a new feature that is only available in the Mac Version of MarcEdit at this point.  One of the things that had been missing in the Export Tab Delimited Tool was the ability to save and load one’s export settings.  I added that as part of the…

I’ve posted a new update for all versions of MarcEdit this afternoon.  Last night, when I posted the new update, I introduced a bug into the RDA Helper that rendered it basically unusable.  When adding functionality to the tool to enable support for abbreviations at a subfield level, I introduced a problem that removed the…

I spent some time this week working through a few updates based on some feedback I’ve gotten over the past couple of weeks.  Most of the updates at this point are focused on the Windows/Linux builds, but the Mac build has been updated as well as all new functionality found in the linking libraries and…

I posted a small MarcEdit Update for Linux/Windows users that corrects some file path issues on linux and corrects a problem introduced in doing unicode character replacement in the 260/264 process of the RDA Helper.  You can get the update from the downloads page or via the automated updates. I also wanted to take this…

Yesterday, I had someone indicate that there was a problem with the Add/Delete Field function.  An update in the last version to allow for deduplication deletions based on subfields tripped other deletions.  This was definitely problematic.  This has been corrected, in addition to a couple other changes. Change log: 6.2.88 Bug Fix: Add/Delete Field: I…

Update was posted Feb. 27 to all versions.  Update Contains the following changes: 6.2.85 Enhancement: Characterset Detection: MarcEdit is including a tool that will provide a heuristical analysis of a file to provide best guess characterset detection. (https://blog.reeset.net/archives/1897) Enhancement: Build New Tool Function: Adding a find macro to the function so that users can now…

I’m wrapping up a few odds and ends prior to releasing the next MarcEdit update — mostly around the linked data work and how the tool works with specific linked data services — but one of the specific changes that should make folks using the Build New Field tool happy is the addition of a…