Released: Oct 17, 2020

Updates in 8.2.1 Build 5670

Features

• WEBP Image Format - Help+Manual natively supports the WEBP image format. You can use WEBP as regular images or toggle images.
• Copy & Paste Operations - When pasting images from the clipboard into a topic and saving it in PNG format, the alpha-transparency of the clipboard image is preserved. In addition to this, you can copy & paste image files from Microsoft Windows Explorer into a topic. You can now copy & paste transparent images from SnagIt by using the “Paste HTML...

Released: Sep 3, 2020

Updates in 8.2.0 Build 5520

Features

• Project Synchronize - User defined variables, topic status and custom builds are now synchronized.
• PDF - Added a new option to print links with a specified color but optionally no underline in PDF Layout.
• Insert HTML Code dialog - This dialog now has dedicated support for static HTML code, merge of external HTML files and web URLs.
• PDF Manual Designer - The “Tables” section now supports page breaks.
• Added the ability to disable automatic calculation in Project Statistics (project...

Released: May 24, 2020

Updates in 8.1.0 Build 5536

Features

• Improved Saving Screenshots - Save dialog for screenshots is now 10 to 50 times faster than before.
• Optional Password for Floating Licenses - The Floating License Manager has been updated with a password/PIN code function. This is an additional security layer, which can be applied to a pool of floating licenses by the administrator.
• Faster loading when printing large JPEG images.
• The function to print a single topic has been improved.
• Improved dialog to pin a floating license for...

Released: Apr 21, 2020

Updates in 8.0.3 Build 5500

Features

• Link lists with Inline Option - Added an inline option to publish a list of links as comma-separated text, instead of a classic list.
• Admin Tool: Change File Associations - The View tab has a button to start a new tool, that sets, changes or removes file associations in Windows. A file association tells Windows which program to start when you double click, for instance, a file with the extension .HMXZ. These file associations are automatically set by the installer. For admins who...

Released: Mar 29, 2020

Updates in 8.0.2 Build 5475

Features

• Design-time comments: when a comment was displayed as an icon only, it could not easily be double-clicked for editing. Double-click editing for icon-only comments has been improved.

Fixes

• Bug fix for the customize-bullet-list dialog.
• Error message “Invalid characters in path” fixed.

Released: Mar 23, 2020

Updates in 8.0.2 Build 5473

Features

• DeepL translation plugin: Japanese and Chinese Simplified are now supported.

Fixes

• Data Loss with Topic Status Change - Version 8.0.2 fixes a bug related to topic-status changes that can cause data loss: if the topic status was changed for multiple topics at once, those topics that had been edited before (and were yet not saved) lost their content. This bug also triggered a problem with the table of contents, a warning appeared that the table of contents could not be stored.
• eWriter...

Released: Feb 28, 2020

Updates in 8.0.1 Build 5461

Features

• Improved Topic Editor performance.
• eWriter eBook Viewer now includes an additional command line option to show the eBook window on top of other windows.
• The configuration for the eBook menu now has an option to specify the color of the application menu button.
• The eBook Viewer app is no longer signed. This is an intentional change, because the signature of the executable is invalid anyway, when packed with HTML data.

Fixes

• An optical viewer glitch on very large monitors has been fixed...

Released: Feb 15, 2020

Updates in 8.0.0 Build 5452

Fixes

• The eWriter Viewer app is now included in the distribution of Help+Manual, no separate installation required.
• Bugfix toggle images: left/right aligned toggle images without image caption were not correctly positioned in Webhelp.
• Bugfix PDF: some OLE objects could have caused an error during PDF export.
• Optical glitch with text conditions on high-res monitors fixed.
• New setting in Program Options to manually specify the link to HelpXplain.
• Batch compilations: extra message about maintenance...

Released: Feb 9, 2020

Updates in 8

Features

• Animated Screencasts and new Screen Capture Tool - This tool supports:
  • Captures on multiple monitors with different resolutions.
  • Multi-part captures (add new captures to the existing capture to create a single image).
  • Capture animated HelpXplain screencasts for tutorials - a series of screenshots with animated transitions showing how to do something on the computer screen.
• New Symbol Dialog - You can add individual and groups of symbol characters to the new Custom Symbols list in the...

Released: Sep 7, 2019

Updates in 7.5.3

Features

• Insert HelpXplain dialog: defaults for Xplains changed to lightbox mode (this is important for Xplains with audio support).
• All CHM skins have been changed to elevate the internal rendering engine to Internet Explorer 11 instead of 10 (this is important for Xplains with audio support to make the audio work inside CHM files).

Fixes

• Publishing tasks: include comments in PDF was not working.