Released: Jun 8, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in 5.4

• Microsoft Sandcastle: Source code documentation with Microsoft Sandcastle
  Help and Manual now imports a Sandcastle project and converts it to a Help and Manual project. You can then edit it like any normal Help and Manual project, add information, change the structure and so on. You can also publish to any of the formats supported by Help and Manual: not just CHM but PDF, Webhelp, etc. You also get Help and Manual's other features, like team authoring, conditional output, multiple builds with command line build interface and so on.
• New manual designer
  The new Manual Designer comes with improved layout features: Now, when you move objects with the mouse, the editor automatically displays blue guide lines to help you align objects with each other. Objects automatically snap to the positions of other objects and the margins. You can now combine objects as groups and then manipulate the group like a single object. "Object anchors" now allow you to anchor each side of an object to the page borders or margins - this gives you "fluid" layouts that adapt automatically when you change the paper size or margins of your layout.
• New PDF Features
  All objects can now be defined as PDF hyperlinks to make them clickable. The links can point to a topic, a page number or a section of the PDF manual, or to external files or a web address. Similarly, you can each section of your PDF template can now have its own editable custom entry in the "Bookmarks" table of contents in the PDF file. This means that you can add Bookmarks entries for custom pages and sections that could previously not be included, like the Index or the Contents (print-style TOC) sections.