We are glad to announce a maintenance update for Help+Manual 8.4. If you are using version 8 already and your maintenance plan includes updates until December 17, 2021, just download the setup and run it to update your current installation.
Sandcastle Import Revised
To write source code documentation for Visual Studio, Help+Manual can import VS libraries and build a documentation skeleton for all the classes and units found. The import tool is called Microsoft Sandcastle.
This update includes a revised Sandcastle import with better style support, larger default fonts and optional table styles.
Miscellaneous Changes
- Windows Meta Files (.WMF) on high-resolution monitors: WMF images have a face value of their regular size, which is actually coined for a 96 dpi system. On high-res systems, WMF files will appear larger than they originally appeared. We have to compensate for the difference in Help+Manual, which we do with version 8.4.2. This behavior is on by default, but can be deactivated with an option switch in the Editor tab of the Program Options dialog.
Note that the sizing issue affects old-style .wmf files only. The more modern enhanced metafiles (.emf) are not concerned. - Table of Contents: when copying items within the TOC, topics were always automatically created or duplicated, respectively. There is a new paste option in the drop-down menu of the Paste button, to paste TOC entries only, without duplicating topics.
- EWriter eBooks: the default width and height of the viewer window (like 800 x 600 px) depended on the resolution of the monitor where H&M was being run. It is now treated independent from that resolution.
Furthermore we fixed a very rare problem that could have sometimes cause the eWriter export to fail. - Image toggles in HTML export: the magnifier SVG symbol shown on image toggles was slightly clipped on the top and left side.
- Project Language: “Norwegian Nynorsk” was listed twice in the language list (two times NO-NO instead of NO plus NO-NO)
- Publishing Tasks: optical glitch fixed – the last task entry was hidden by the horizontal scrollbar if the main window was too narrow.
- Hard page breaks with a change of print orientation at the beginning of a topic caused a parasite blank paragraph in HTML export.
- Word/DOCX export: bugfix with Word styles
- Batch publishing: if there is no license at all (demo version) the batch export warns about no license and exits with ExitCode 99.
Download
Help+Manual 8.4.2 is available from our download page: