Released: Oct 7, 2024

Updates in 9.6.0 Build 6810

Features

• Markdown snippets (in addition to HTML snippets) are now supported.

Fixes

• Problem with HTML export of YouTube videos fixed.
• Batch compilation: if a topic was damaged (invalid XML), the compiler reported the problem citing the unexpected XML tag, but the ID of the topic was missing in the error message.
• Images in HTML and Markdown snippets are loaded from their original location, as referred in the HTML code. It is no longer required to include these images folder into the search path of...

Released: Sep 23, 2024

Updates in 9.6.0 Build 6803

Fixes

• The executable of build 6802 contained an invalid manifest file, resulting in bad scaling on high-dpi monitors.

Released: Sep 19, 2024

Updates in 9.6.0 Build 6802

Features

• Screen Capture: while selecting the capture area with the mouse, the mouse position can be moved by simply pressing the arrows keys. This is helpful on high resolution displays to fine-position the mouse pointer to the edge of a window.
• Screencast: the options dialog for screencasts includes a new option: Enlarge cursor icon.
• Image hotspot editor asks to save changes, if the dialog is cancelled after changes have been made.
• Topic Editor: when using TAB or SHIFT+TAB in a numbered list or...

Released: May 6, 2024

Updates in 9.5.0 Build 6711

Features

• Help+Manual now comes with OCR - Added support for optical character recognition (OCR). OCR has been implemented into the screen capture tool (to capture text anywhere from the screen) and it has been added to the image tools in the editor context menu (to extract text from an image already inserted).
• eWriter output: Preview with Microsoft Edge - Help+Manual now uses eWriter Version 5 Beta for preview. When you create an .ewriter file, Help+Manual uses its internal version to display it...

Released: Mar 11, 2024

Updates in 9.4.2 Build 6657

Features

• Picture Toggles - The context menu now offers a 'Picture' entry with the following commands 'Edit with external editor', 'Show in Explorer' and 'Reload'.
• HTML Export
  • Added role and scope attributes for table headers. Single-cell tables such as toggle tables include the attribute role="cell". Table header> tags include the attribute scope"col" or scope="colgroup" for multiple columns.
  • Compilation of .SNIPX now prefers the local xplainCmd.exe over any installed version of HelpXplain...

Released: Feb 2, 2024

Updates in 9.4.1 Build 6640

Features

• Confluence import has been updated. The Confluence import now recognizes more macros and skips older versions of the same page.
• Topic Editor: Added support for horizontal scrolling: Works with 4-directional mouse and with SHIFT + mouse wheel and support for trackpad gestures (in particular left/right swipe) has been implemented.
• Paste function: Now understands the SnipSVG share format.
• Help context numbers: If a topic contains multiple help context numbers, they are now sorted...

Released: Dec 8, 2023

Updates in 9.4.0 Build 6617

Features

• Added a dedicated import for Confluence.
• Added SnipX file format support for images.
• Topic Editor: When rescaling images, the image displays the new size while the resizer is being moved.
• Topic status: When using darker colors for status indication, the text foreground color automatically changes to white.

Released: Oct 26, 2023

Updates in 9.3.0 Build 6582

Features

• The Ziphelp option for HTML5/Webhelp output was "on" by default and could not be changed. This build update changes the default for Ziphelp to "off".

Released: Oct 19, 2023

Updates in 9.3.0 Build 6580

Features

• Improved HTML5/Webhelp output by adding Ziphelp support.
• eWriter Viewer 4.0 now included.
• HelpXplain command line compiler: Before exporting an Xplain, the compiler now checks if source file and output have the same time stamp and skips compilation if they are equal. This speeds up compilation of projects that contain several Xplains.
• Import Word/RTF: Added new 'Use topic heading as ID' import option which ignores the typical "refXXXXX" references from Microsoft Word and replaces them...

Released: Aug 25, 2023

Updates in 9.2.0 Build 6538

Fixes

• DeepL: Due to an internal change in the DeepL API, translation with API glossaries no longer worked. The DeepL translation plugin responded with an error "400: glossary_id not valid". The problem has been fixed.