oXygen XML Author 18 released

Released: Apr 22, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 18

  • Collaborate more easily and effectively with others using comment threads. It includes a new “reply to comment” action and it allows you to mark comments as resolved.
  • A brand new visual Image Map Editor allows you to easily add links on specific areas within an image, while automatically generating the corresponding markup.
  • Working with tables has become more intuitive and a new validation engine reports problems in table structure.
  • More Smart Paste strategies have been implemented to allow oXygen to preserve the validity of the document you are editing.
  • The new XML-aware three-way file comparison feature helps you solve conflicts and merge changes between multiple modifications of the same file.
  • DITA content can be published using a new HTML5 publishing system called WebHelp Responsive. This includes a variant that allows readers to send you feedback and is adaptable to any device and screen size to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience.
  • oXygen now officially supports DITA 1.3 and the DITA Open Toolkit version 2.2.3. The DocBook stylesheets were updated to version 1.79.1 and DocBook schemas to version 5.1.