Released: Sep 29, 2021

Updates in 8.4.1 Build 5881

Features

• Added new IFDEFs for Templates:  <IF_ISDEFAULT_PAGE> and <IFNOT_ISDEFAULT_PAGE> are true if the current page that is being exported is the default topic or not.
• Publishing dialog - Added a button to clear recently used skins from the drop-down gallery.

Fixes

• The XML parser has been reverted to the previous version (without support for 4-byte Unicode chars).
• Equations as inline SVG: the <svg> tag did not include an xmlns= attribute, which is required in XHTML (but not in...

Released: Aug 9, 2021

Updates in 8.4.0 Build 5872

Features

• Equation Editor:
  • The LaTeX-based equation editor introduced with Help+Manual 8.0 has been updated and now supports a much wider range of LaTeX commands.
  • Added the ability to export equations as SVG in HTML - This version exports all equations as scalable vector graphics, which significantly improves the display quality on high resolution display.
• Link Lists - The link list object now has a new option to display the topic description of the target topic below the link.

Fixes

• PDF Problem...

Released: Mar 22, 2021

Updates in 8.3.1 Build 5794

Features

• PDF Export - In the manual designer, the Tables section only had a 'new page' break option. Now all Table sections support 'new odd page' and 'new even page' as well.
• Robohelp Import - Help+Manual now supports multiple Robohelp-TOCs and multiple keyword files.
• Workspaces
  • When opening a workspace with multiple projects, the projects no longer open with a fully expanded TOC, but are expanded on a project level.
  • You can now rearrange the order of multiple projects within a workspace by...

Released: Jan 22, 2021

Updates in 8.3.0 Build 5750

Features

• Improved handling of Asian fonts.
  • Added a new global option to automatically translate Asian font names when a project or topic is loaded.
  • Chinese characters in style names are now supported.
• eWriter eBooks: updated viewer application, now supports <track> tags for video subtitles.
• Inline Text Toggles support optional icons.
• Image Shortcuts Gallery: the drop-down image gallery load method has been modified to better distribute the load time when accessing remote drives.
• Equations...

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...