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Help+Manual 7.0.7 Released!


Right before the holiday season, we have completed Help+Manual 7.0.7! The update is free for all users of Help+Manual version 7. If you are still using version 6 or older, check out our upgrade options.

This update is mostly a bug-fix and maintenance release, no significant new features have been added (new features will be in the upcoming 7.1 release, in January 2016 – stay tuned for that).

A couple of smaller issues have been fixed in the PDF export, particularly in combination with ultra-high resolution monitors. Furthermore, the support for SVG images has been improved: our SVG library now supports texts on curved paths.

SVG images with curved text now supported
SVG images with curved text now supported

Changes, bug-fixes and improvements in 7.0.7

  • PDF: One important change concerns top-level intro pages in PDF. In H+M version 7.0 we introduced a rule that single top-level topics (topics without sub-entries) should not generate a top-level intro page. What initially seemed to be a good idea turned out to be counter-productive for many users, who place single topics in the top level of the TOC to print multi-page introductions or appendixes, which in fact qualify for an “intro” page. We have reversed this printing rule – top-level entries (when used in the PDF template) are again always printed.In the PDF output, on ultra-high resolution displays, fixed-sized tables and the caption height of images was not calulated correctly, resulting in some tables being cut and image captions adding an unwanted gap below the caption. Toggle images that were part of numbered lists were shifted a few pixels to the right when used inside tables. Last, a very small glitch: in a rare case, single keyword index page numbers were printed but not linked.
  • Word/DOCX export: minor bug fix with lists
  • Table properties dialog: the table dialog has been made more intelligent and the message that offers reseting individual cell properties when changing the table in general, is only displayed if really necessary.
  • SVG images: an updated SVG library is now capable of displaying text on a curved path.
  • Topic editor: on ultra-high resolution monitors, conditional text tags were displayed too large. The editor has received an additional zoom state of 300%. The image dropdown gallery painted PNG thumbnail images with the wrong proportions. Line spacing values between 1.01 and 1.09 did not work. File links with execution parameters are now displayed in the project report.
  • Bullet lists: two Wingding bullets were converted to the wrong Unicode character in Webhelp and HTML Help when running on Asian or East-European Windows versions.
  • Batch compilation: a new command line parameter was introduced to use the STDOUT output instead of creating a new console: /stdout (see online help for details)

Get the update

If you have installed Help+Manual 7 already, please download and install the 7.0.7 update over your existing installation. The setup will recognize the previous installation and update it accordingly:

http://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads.html?upd

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