Help & Manual Basic Releases
Released: Aug 22, 2013
Updates in this release
Updates in 6.3
- Webhelp context numbers.
- Automatically open a selected topic in the browser after publishing.
- Sitemaps are split if they exceed the maximum size of 50,000 urls or 10 megabytes in size.
- Topics that start with an underscore can be excluded from the search.
- Menus now use system font size instead of hard-coded font size.
- Ruler context menus quickly access paragraph options and customize topic editors.
- PNG images show alpha transparency.
- A second link to the screen capture tool has...
Released: Nov 15, 2011
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Updates in 6
- All new Webhelp 2.0 - Help & Manual now creates HTML5 Webhelp output which fully supports jQuery and uses animations for non-static content such as table of contents, toggle text, etc.
- New publishing formats and publishing tasks - Help & Manual lets you create batch jobs that combine several different outputs and/or different output formats. The publishing batch jobs are saved with the project.
- Improved editor and new spell checker - Help & Manual has tabbed editing, so...
Released: Aug 17, 2011
Updates in this release
Updates in 5.6
- Improved Robohelp import: some file and topic links in Robohelp were not correctly resolved, keyword index was not read from particular older RH projects.
- PDF export: high Unicode characters with standard fonts (e.g. Arial) are exported as glyphs to avoid display problems on non-Unicode systems.
- Paragraph dialog: when pressing Enter in numeric entry fields, the last value entered was not applied.
Released: Jan 31, 2011
Updates in this release
Updates in V5.5.1
- Webhelp comes with improved scaling of embedded metafiles and an alignment bug fix for right-aligned images with captions.
- PDF export has been improved - embedded files did not work in some cases, a wrong y-position of labels starting with a blank character has been fixed.
- Topic variables now permit leading and trailing spaces in the variable content.
Released: Jun 8, 2010
Updates in this release
Updates in 5.4
- Microsoft Sandcastle: Source code documentation with Microsoft Sandcastle
Help and Manual now imports a Sandcastle project and converts it to a Help and Manual project. You can then edit it like any normal Help and Manual project, add information, change the structure and so on. You can also publish to any of the formats supported by Help and Manual: not just CHM but PDF, Webhelp, etc. You also get Help and Manual's other features, like team authoring, conditional output, multiple...
