Help+Manual 10.2 and Translation Assistant 10.2
Posted by Alexander Halser on April 23, 2026
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual and Translation Assistant v10.2. This update includes an important bug fix for secondary TOCs, LibreOffice compatibility and an update of the DeepL plugin.
Help+Manual 10.2 Changes
- Secondary TOCs: when a project was refreshed (in multi-user mode or after synchronize from VCS), new secondary table of contents created by other users did not show up. It was required to close the project and re-open it again to make the new TOCs visible.
- Secondary TOCs: the source XML file names for secondary TOCs are no longer enumerated, but created with a unique file name ID.
- Topic Editor / Program Options: the setting for editor ruler units has a 5th option: NONE/HIDE to hide the ruler completely.
- Paste image from clipboard: the suggested screenshot name no longer includes a number or the username, it follows a naming convention of date+time, similar to the naming of screenshots on macOS.
- Webhelp Export: Sitemap now has a more detailed <lastmod> entry that includes a UTC time stamp.
- DOCX / Word Export: full compatibility with LibreOffice.
- Robohelp Import: error when importing old-style keyword index fixed.
- Close project: when pressing the ESC key in the “Do you want to save” dialog, the dialog took this as a “no” instead of “cancel”.
- Insert Variable: OK button was initially enabled despite no variable was selected.
- ChatGPT Plugin: attaching .TXT files did not work.
- DeepL Plugin: several new languages implemented, including Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Maltece, Irish, Swiss German and a dozen more.
- SnipSVG 2.2 included (features OCR in Windows 10/11).
Translation Assistant 10.2 Changes
- ChatGPT Plugin: attaching .TXT files did not work.
- DeepL Plugin: several new languages implemented, including Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Maltece, Irish, Swiss German and a dozen more.
All updates are available from our download page.
SnipSVG 2.2 – Extract Text from Images
Posted by Alexander Halser on April 15, 2026
We are glad to announce the immediate availablility of SnipSVG version 2.2!
What’s new in SnipSVG 2.2?
SnipSVG can extract text from images. This function is new in the Windows version and requires Windows 10 or Windows 11, it makes use of the OCR engine that comes with Windows.
Other Changes in SnipSVG 2.2
- When an image has been edited (e.g. cropped) and the image is the only item on the canvas, the canvas is auto-sized to fit the new image
- Copy as image to clipboard: when nothing was selected, the copy-as-image function created a picture that was too large.
- The image effects editor (crop & bitmap effects) now has 8 drag handles instead of just four, making it easier to place and resize effects.
Download
All downloads for Windows and macOS are available from the SnipSVG website.
Premium Pack 6 Released
Posted by tim green on March 11, 2026
Premium Pack 6 has now been released and is available for purchase and upgrade. If you purchased or upgraded to version 5 within the last 6 months the upgrade is free and you will receive a free upgrade code shortly, if you have not already received it. Otherwise you can purchase it here or get an upgrade here.
Note on upgrades:
If you have purchased or upgraded to version 5 within the last 6 months your upgrade will be free and you will be getting an email with details in the next few days.
Premium Pack 6 includes:
- Full keyboard operation for unsighted users
- DeltaFTP utility for smart WebHelp updating
- Elimination of separate eWriter Help skins
- Keyword index: filter instead of search
- Comparison slider for images
- Sortable tables in all skins
- Google Fonts in all skins
- Updated V2 skins for eWriter Help
- New Simplicity skin
- Style overhaul with SVG icons
Help+Manual 10.1.0 Released
Posted by Alexander Halser on February 9, 2026
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.1.0! This update is particularly interesting if you want to use the ChatGPT plugin with custom LLMs.
ChatGPT Plugin
We fixed a proxy bug with the ChatGPT plugin: the plugin did not use the proxy defined for Help+Manual in general. With this update, ChatGPT uses the global proxy by default and lets you set custom proxy settings in the plugin directly. 
Help+Manual 10.1.0 Miscellaneous Changes
- Paste picture from clipboard: the save dialog that lets you specify the file name for the picture now uses the extended version, so you can directly add an image style, caption, zoom, etc.
- Insert Variable: the dialog now features a recently used list with the last 7 variables inserted, making variables easier to insert
- eViewer 5.6 included
- SnipSVG 2.1 included
- PDF snippets in PDF export: when a “raw PDF snippet” was the very first item in a topic, the snippet was not printed.
- Word/DOCX export: Cyrillic characters in style names were not exported correctly on a Russian Windows.
- Webhelp Export on Chinese Windows versions: UTF8-BOM for topic pages was wrong encoded.
All updates are available from our download page.
eWriter Viewer v5.6 and Viewer Distributables
Posted by Alexander Halser on February 6, 2026
eWriter Viewer (for Windows) has been updated to version 5.6.
v5.5: This update fixes a bug that occurred when the eViewer Windows app was running in Internet Explorer mode and the computer did not have an internet connection. This has caused an error message when opening an eWriter ebook.
v5.6: This update eliminates the need to distribute the additional “WebView2Loader.dll” with the viewer executable. The viewer now includes the DLL as a resource file and uses it implicitly. This means that on most Win10 and Win11 machines, eViewer runs in Microsoft Edge (Chromium) mode.
Download:
https://www.helpandmanual.com/ewriter/index.html
SnipSVG 2.1 Released – Syntax Highlighter for Code Snippets
Posted by Alexander Halser on January 11, 2026
We are happy to announce the first software update for 2026: SnipSVG version 2.1!
What’s new in SnipSVG 2.1?
The biggest change in this update is a syntax highlighter for source code examples. Our documentation tool Help+Manual has long offered syntax highlighting features. Now SnipSVG has the same functionality, for images.
Worried about using images for code snippets? Don’t be. SnipSVG exports SVG files that can be embedded directly into any HTML page. Because SVG text remains real text, users can still select and copy your code examples with ease. And the image remains editable after publishing.
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eWriter Viewer and Viewer Distributables
Posted by Alexander Halser on December 2, 2025
eWriter Viewer has been updated to version 5.4.
This update fixes a sorting issue in custom menu items and, if the eWriter file includes a custom icon with multiple resolutions, it uses the larger resolution for the taskbar icon.
Download:
https://www.helpandmanual.com/ewriter/index.html
Black Friday Weeks: 25% Off
Posted by Alexander Halser on November 24, 2025
Our Black Friday sale is on!
We offer a 25% discount on all products, upgrades and maintenance extensions from 24 November through 7 December. Visit the online store for details:
Help+Manual and Translation Assistant v10.0.3 Update
Posted by Alexander Halser on November 22, 2025
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.0.3 and Translation Assistant 10.0.3! This update comes with a few bug fixes and one very convenient new feature.
Automatic Image Refresh
When you edit a picture in a topic with SnipSVG (or any other image editor), Help+Manual automatically refreshes the image, once you switch back to the application. We have put a great effort into this check-and-auto-refresh function, to make it lightening fast. It is on by default, but you can switch it off in Program Options.
Problem Fix with Open Dialogs
Help+Manual 10 has new open and save dialogs, that match the skin (light/dark) and feature an integrated preview for many file types. These new dialogs have caused delays with two customers. The symptom was a delay of more than half a minute, before the dialogs appeared. We were able to track this down to an incompatibility with 3rd party apps, that inject custom overlay icons in Windows Explorer. If you happened to experience such a delay with any of the open/save dialogs, the problem should now be solved.
YouTube Videos
YouTube has once again changed their policy and sometimes refuses to show embedded videos. The typical YouTube error is “501 Configuration Error”. For local HTML, that is unfortunately normal. For HTML pages running on a web server, it should work. We have implemented two modifications to avoid this problem. If you still experience issues with YouTube videos on a web server, please contact us.
Help+Manual 10.0.3 Changes
- Automatic image refresh after external changes to pictures in topics.
- Open and save dialogs: problem fix for 3rd party overlay icons.
- Save dialogs: changing file type now changes filename extension.
- Publishing tasks / task editor: scrollbar for include options was sometimes not visible.
- Print Manual dialog: access violation in dropdown lists fixed
- Sorting glitch in topics files list fixed
- YouTube videos: attribute referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” added to the <iframe> tag. Furthermore, you can replace the hard-coded YouTube url with www.youtube-nocookie.com. This mod is still experimental and must be activated with a registry setting. Please contact us for more details if you face problems with embedded YouTube videos.
- Russian CHM and PDF files: meta data encoding problem fixed.
- SnipSVG: the version integrated with Help+Manual (build 502) received a small change regarding the autosize function: when applying a shadow to a picture, the autosize function calculates the required margins. The margins are now rounded to full integer pixels to avoid placing objects on sub-pixel positions, which led to a slight interpolation in some cases.
Update December 1, 2025
- eViewer 5.4 included
Translation Assistant 10.0.3 Changes
- Open and save dialogs: problem fix for 3rd party overlay icons.
- Save dialogs: changing file type now changes filename extension.
All updates are available from our download page.
Help+Manual and Translation Assistant v10.0.2 Update
Posted by Alexander Halser on October 22, 2025
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.0.2 and Translation Assistant 10.0.2!
Help+Manual 10.0.2 Changes
- Publishing Tasks: in dark mode, publishing multiple task entries created an error.
- Insert Snippet dialog: mouse wheel support did not scroll the listbox of snippet topics.
- The syntax editor always converted tabs to spaces. Syntax editors are used for XML topic source code and for HTML code in various dialogs.
- German UI: visual glitches in Insert Link dialog and bullet list selection fixed.
- Additional symbols implemented in Customize List Style dialog.
- Config > Common > Text Variables: spacing of variables grid was larger than normal.
Translation Assistant 10.0.2 Changes
- Side selection in session window did not work on a single mouse click: a single click on any tree column must activate this side.
- Copying (new) topic sub-folders from one project to another had a small bug: the resulting topics were copied but not correctly listed under this folder in Help+Manual. Instead, the topic files were listed separately.
- Dialogs updated to match Help+Manual 10.0.2 (Customize List Style, Insert Snippet, etc.)
All updates are available from our download page.