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

• Floating licenses with proxy settings - For companies that use a mandatory corporate proxy server to manage Internet access for all employees, floating licenses did not work, because Help+Manual could not access the license server to book a floating license. Now you can tell Help+Manual to use a dedicated proxy server for logon and logoff. A link to the proxy settings editor is included in the View tab.
• Project Synchronize - User defined variables, topic status and custom builds are now...

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

• New Plugin System (PDF Review, Translation) - Help & Manual 8 has a new interface for external plugins that allow a wide range of external HTML-based enhancements, including things like translation tools and grammar checkers. The initial release comes with the first two plugins:
  • DeepL Machine Translation Plugin - Just select the text you want to translate in your topic and click Translate in the plugin pane.
  • PDF Review Plugin - Open PDFs and see all comments side-by-side with the...