HelpXplain Releases
Released: Oct 17, 2024
Updates in 1.8.4 Build 1854
Fixes
- Fixed a problem with text objects sometimes being cut off at the bottom. If you face this problem with existing Xplain files, please re-apply the font size for the text objects affected by this problem.
Released: Aug 16, 2024
Updates in 1.8.4 Build 1851
Features
- Creating screencasts - The layout and options dialog for screencasts now includes a new option: Enlarge cursor icon. The cursor symbol of screencasts recorded on displays with high resolution (Windows scaling > 100%) had a different size than in screencasts recorded at scaling 100%.
Fixes
- Paste text from clipboard - If the text on the clipboard contained HTML tags (brackets), the special characters were not escaped.
- Formatting text - If the text contained literal HTML code (e.g."<...
Released: May 14, 2024
Updates in 1.8.3 Build 1851
Features
- You can now paste images from the clipboard in HTML format.
Released: Mar 11, 2024
Updates in 1.8.2 Build 1850
Features
- Image Crop Tool - Added new rounded corners button.
Fixes
- Microsoft Powerpoint Import - German umlauts and some special characters were not converted correctly
Released: Feb 2, 2024
Updates in 1.8.1 Build 1840
Features
- Improved mouse wheel and trackpad support: Mouse scroll works with 4-directional mouse and with SHIFT + mouse wheel. Trackpad gestures for left/right and up/down swipe as well as pinch-to-zoom have been implemented.
- New SVG library implemented: If you add SVG images to slides in HelpXplain, the design-time display offers better support for gradients and shadows.
- Object shadows: Made small modifications to match SVG shadows more closely with design time.
- Copy and Paste operations...
Released: Nov 23, 2023
Updates in 1.8.0
Features
- Favorites Tool - Added a favorites tool, where you can store objects that you want to re-insert regularly. Favorites are stored in a hidden Xplain file, which you can open and edit to modify your favorites list.
- Format Painter - Added a new Format Painter that works in the same way as in Help+Manual, or in Microsoft Office.
- Minor Changes:
- Added new additional numbering steps - with text label attached.
- Canvas background: A transparent background option has been added. This option is...
Released: Oct 22, 2023
Updates in 1.7.1
Features
- Added support for Ziphelp in the Publish dialog.
- Added three new line types:
- bent curve.
- s-curve.
- zigzag.
- When inserting an overview slide, the function now optionally inserts links to all other slides.
Released: Jul 2, 2023
Updates in 1.7.0
Features
- HelpXplain is now 64 bit. The setup includes both the 32 and 64 bit versions with English and German user interface.
- The setup can install either for all users (requires admin rights) or just for the current user (without admin rights).
- You can now choose the examples folder during the setup.
- Insert shape dialog: Added new basic shapes and new numbering tags with auto-numbering in several styles.
- Callout shapes now support multiple pointers.
- You can now export a single slide in SVG...
Released: Feb 7, 2022
Updates in 1.6.0
Fixes
- Script errors: Typewriter animations of text were invisible when played again, fade-in animations that were placed on the very first slide and started at 0:00 seconds became invisible in subsequent loops.
- Screen Capture tool: Optical glitches fixed in screen capture UI, when Windows UI style was set to “classic” Win2000 style (this causes Windows to switch off Aero and transparent drawing, which parts of the UI have relied on).
- User Interface: Optical glitches in UI fixed when Windows UI...
Released: Apr 14, 2021
Updates in 1.5
Features
- Added custom HTML meta tags for easier social-media integration.
- Added new arrange functions for objects.
- Added support for 13 new languages in the DeepL translation tool, including: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.
Fixes
- Fixed a technical issue with audio files sometimes not playing on iOS Safari.
