Help & Manual 4.51 released

Topic redirection script changed to prevent automatic switching. When a topic is opened with the search string "toc=0", it does not automatically load the TOC. The string "toc=0" is hardcoded and must be lowercase.

Example with synchronization:
http://www.helpandmanual.com/help/hm_welcome.htm

Without synchronization:
http://www.helpandmanual.com/help/hm_welcome.htm?toc=0

To prevent unintentional drag & drop operations in the Table of Contents, you can intentionally lock the tree view. This is a new command button right above the table of contents.

A new font button was implemented in the font dialog box for text objects, offering a broader font color selection.

Help & Manual can export XML data directly to a ZIP archive. To improve compatibility, the file name encoding inside the ZIP archive has been changed and now works with the local codepage.

Bug fix: custom HTML code in movie objects was not imported correctly from a translated XML source.

Bug fix: if a help window did not have a header, this setting was not preserved.

When searching for text in image file names, the found image was highlighted (selected), but not automatically scrolled into view.

When copying and pasting TOC entries in the same project, the internal node IDs were copied too, resulting in duplicate node IDs. This problem may affect project synchronization and XML export/import.
The Tools > Repair function fixes the problem and assigns new node IDs where duplicate IDs are found.

• Insert Toggles dialog: Small bug fix in initialization section that may have caused an error.
• Image toggles: When converting a picture to an image toggle, "print expanded" is not selected by default.
• eBook export: an error sound occured when clicking on chapters without text.
• Batch export: When the predefined variable <%TITLE%> was overloaded by an external configuration file, the overloaded value was not used in some situations.
• Project Synchronization: New option to synchronize TOC by topic IDs. This option is intended to synchronize projects that have never been synchronized before and were created independently.
• HTML import: improvements to anchor handling and import of dedicated <div> IDs.

Impict 2.40, which is included in the latest update of Help & Manual, now supports XML export of text objects and callouts in images. When saving an image in Impict in the native IPP format, Impict optionally exports an additional XML file that contains the text objects only. The XML file can be translated externally and then imported again to update the text in objects. The files use the standard Help & Manual XML schema, so they can be edited with a translation program like Trados or Across as well as regular XML editors or normal text editors.

The current version of Browser-based Help has a Javascript vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject and execute external Javascript code. If you create browser-based help, we strongly recommend that you install this update.

The vulnerability is in the frame script and is automatically replaced with a safe version of the script, if you use standard templates.

If you have manually edited the frame template for browser-based help, please reset the template to update the script changes.

This is a new convenience function: in previous versions, it was possible to drag selected text from the topic editor to the table of contents (TOC), to create a link. This function has been extended - if  you drop the text between two TOC entries, Help & Manual now creates a new topic and inserts a link to the new topic at the current position in one operation.

The insert command for symbols and special characters on the Tools menu now has its own menu with some additional options to make insertion of frequently-used characters easier: You can now insert hyphens, soft line breaks and soft hyphens directly. Soft line breaks are breaks that do not begin a new paragraph, hence space before and after a paragraph is not applied. Soft hyphens are invisible hyphens designed to mark a possible word break.