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...