Help & Manual Basic Releases

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.

Released: Aug 12, 2023

Updates in 9.2.0 Build 6536

Features

  • Mouse wheel: It's now easier to scroll any control without clicking on it.
  • Find and Replace dialog: The 'Current topic/All topics/All from here' selector has been replaced with 3 buttons. Plus, for text searches in the current topic, a 'wrap around' option has been added.
  • Open Project: The recent files list now has a new right-click menu entry: 'Show in Windows Explorer'. This will open Microsoft Windows Explorer and select the project file.
  • Topic Editor, Images: Added a new entry in...

Released: Apr 8, 2023

Updates in 9.1.0 Build 6440

Features

  • Insert Link Dialog: Added a new checkbox that indicates whether the link points to the current topic. Ticking the checkbox (if unchecked) changes to the current topic.
  • Insert Table dialog: Checkbox has been added to tick all border sides of selected cells at once.
  • Save Picture Dialog: The automatic unique file name suggestion (save as “clipXXXX.png”) now includes the username and computer name into the suggested file name, if a project is under version control. With version control, it...

Released: Feb 9, 2023

Updates in 9.0.3 Build 6380

Features

  • eWriter Viewer 3.3: The udpated eViewer.exe version 3.3 is now included for creating eWriter e-books. Note that eWriter Viewer 3.3 is available as a stand-alone installer as well.
  • Insert Picture Toggles: Picture selection dialog now offers custom image formats as well.

Fixes

  • French User Interface: Several bug fixes in the French UI translation.
  • DeepL Plugin: Bug fix for protected word lists.
  • Word/DOCX export: Second-level keywords from snippets were not correctly indexed.
  • Image Styles...

Released: Dec 16, 2022

Updates in 9.0.2 Build 6342

Features

  • In addition to the English and German UI, Help+Manual now comes with a French (beta) user interface.
  • Topic Editor: Improved mouse hints for images formatted with an image style.

Fixes

  • Word Export: Image styles have been added for DOCX/Word export. These were missing in 9.0.
  • PDF Export: If a topic anchor was placed on an empty line, this line became zero height in print.
  • HTML Help (.chm) Export: The new scripts in version 9 caused an error on older Windows versions prior Windows 7.
  • DeepL...