Posts Tagged Help+Manual
How to bookmark topics in Help+Manual
Posted by Alexander Halser in Training on January 23, 2020
You know, when something has been right in front of your eyes for years, it’s not always the most obvious thing. Today we got a feature request from a customer to implement a favorites list for topics. Read the rest of this entry »
HelpXplain integration in Help+Manual
Posted by Alexander Halser in Documentation Authoring, HelpXplain on January 21, 2020
We are working on a closer integration of HelpXplain into Help+Manual. Additional print options will be available soon. How about printing all slides in a tabular order? That’s something you can’t do with a video.
KM Technology, spol. s r.o. offers Support and Training for Help+Manual
Posted by Alexander Halser in Training on October 23, 2019
We are happy to announce that KM Technology is ready to provide full support, training and licence distribution for Help+Manual in Slovakia! The website is up and running:
eWriter 2.0 released
Posted by Alexander Halser in HelpXplain, Software Updates, Utilities, WebHelp on October 17, 2019
eWriter is a converter application to turn HTML pages into a self-contained Windows executable or eBook. This output format is integrated into Help+Manual as well (and will soon become available in HelpXplain). The eWriter converter application is the free stand-alone version.
Redesigned Runtime Viewer
The viewer for eWriter eBooks is now a stand-alone app. We have completely rebuilt the viewer app with this version and made it (optionally) available as a separate installer. The viewer looks more modern, but more important is the new code base which it is built on: it is more or less platform-independent.
The eWriter Viewer app is currently available in 32 and 64 bit versions, and it is listed in the Microsoft Store:
HelpXplain 1.1.0 and Help+Manual 7.5.3 Updates
Posted by Alexander Halser in CHM HTML Help, HelpXplain, Software Updates on September 7, 2019
We are glad to announce two updates for both, HelpXplain and Help+Manual. HelpXplain has full audio support and Help+Manual needs a few changes to support this, too.
HelpXplain 1.1.0
- HelpXplain 1.1.0 has full audio support! Audios in Xplains work in the regular HTML output, in Help+Manual’s Webhelp, eWriter eBooks and in HTML Help (.chm) files. All player skins include audio controls.Check out the “Fun with audios” demo here:
https://www.helpandmanual.com/help/gf_gettingstarted_audio.html
Other changes and bug fixes in version 1.1.0:
- Publish deletes all files in data folder.
- Original JPEG/PNG images were not exported as original but recreated, sometimes resulting in larger image files
- Several undo/redo bugs fixed
- Scrolling of slide list after slide deletion improved
- When pasting slides, the pasted slides are inserted at the current position in the slide list, not at the end
- File drag & drop on welcome page implemented
- PDF export did not support Unicode file names
Help+Manual 7.5.3
Changes in Help+Manual:
- Insert HelpXplain dialog: defaults for Xplains changed to lightbox mode (this is really important for Xplains with audio support)
- All CHM skins have been changed to elevate the internal rendering engine to Internet Explorer 11 instead of 10 (this is important for Xplains with audio support to make the audio work inside CHM files)
- Publishing tasks: include comments in PDF was not working
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Both are free updates if included in your maintenance plan! Please download the update(s) and install it over your existing version.
HelpXplain 1.0.3 and Help+Manual 7.5.2 Updates
Posted by Alexander Halser in HelpXplain, Software Updates on July 27, 2019
We are glad to announce two updates for both, HelpXplain and Help+Manual. The latter includes two small bugfixes, HelpXplain comes with new translation functions.
HelpXplain 1.0.3
- This update has a dedicated Translation tab added to the File menu. The translation tab features an XLIFF export and import for external translations. In the Properties section, a Language option has been added (the language setting is required for XLIFF).
- Another new feature related to translation is that player skins have an option to load translations from an external text file. Player skins may contain translatable text like “Play”, “Pause”, “Previous/next slide”. English, German and French translations are included.
- New Slide menu: we’ve added a screencast option here. It was already possible to add a screencast to an existing Xplain. However, many users could not find this function. It’s now placed in the Slide menu for better visibility.
- Bugfix object link: the option “go to website” could not be selected
- Bugfix screencast: when adding spotligths to a new screencast, the spotlight was in the wrong place if the screencast layout was text-left or text-right.
- Bugfix group/ungroup: z-index of objects sometimes wrong
- Bugfix: when the slide list was selected, copy to clipboard and cut to clipboard did not work
- Bugfix: the zoom slider was wrong on high-res monitors and the [-] button did not work as a result
- Update build 1090: the command line compiler for Help+Manual could not export Xplains that were currently being edited in HelpXplain.
Help+Manual 7.5.2
The changes made in this update of Help+Manual are really minor. It includes two small problem fixes:
- Bugfix in table selection: copy/paste was sometimes confused and when converting selected text (e.g. a link) in a table cell to plain text, the entire table cell was converted.
- Word/RTF Import: in some rare cases, an image was considered a duplicate when in fact it was not duplicate
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Both are free updates if included in your maintenance plan! Please download the update(s) and install it over your existing version.
Help+Manual 7.5.1 Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in HelpXplain, Software Updates on June 22, 2019
We are glad to anncounce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 7.5.1. This is a free update for all 7.xx user and ships with a few improvements – mostly concerning HelpXplain – including:
- Editing tables and table cell properties could generate an index-out-of-bounds error
- Setting column width by dialog window did not immediately refresh table
- Undo after table change could cause strange effects
- PDF manuals with double-rendering loops: snippets placed directly in the print manual template (MNL) had duplicate page referrers
- Open picture dialog: HelpXplain files can as well be used as static images – similar to Impict pictures
Update Build 4713 (June 28, 2019)
- Problem fix for style preview in tables
- PDF export: in some case, page referrers of links in tables were missing
- Error when converting a table to plain text
- RTF/Word import: a special bullet character was not read correctly
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.5.1 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
Help+Manual 7.0 Build 3630
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on July 13, 2015
We have updated Help+Manual 7 build 3630!
This update fixes an error that occurred when importing RTF or CHM files and makes a change to the table columns sizing rules: when a table column has a dedicated (small) width and the table cell contains a fixed-sized image that is larger than the dedicated width, the image stretches the table column to the required width, like a web browser does. This is the desired behaviour and that’s how it was in H&M version 6. With the new responsive images, this little detail went missing and was hard to detect, because in most cases, table columns are sized to fit their content. But it broke a few older H&M projects with table colums that were (unintentionally) too small.
Another change has been made to the syntax highlighter and the spell check configuration to automatically read the configuration of a previously installed version 6. Those settings are highly customizable and carrying them over from an older version is just more convenient.
New Style Shortcuts
The shortcuts customization list in Program Options includes 3 new shortcuts to directly open the style list and font name/size lists with the keyboard:
Help+Manual 7 Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on July 7, 2015
We have updated Help+Manual 7 build 3625! This update fixes a couple of smaller issues in the recent 7.0 release and is recommended for all 7.0 users.
- Manual designer: drawing error with tiled bitmaps
- Topic editor: executing links to anchors in the same topic with CTRL+Click did not work
- Project explorer, TOC: 2 icons were mixed up
- Spell check configuration dialog: access violation error in some rare situation fixed
- Spell check dictionaries: German dictionary changed
- $ symbols at the beginning of topic IDs are permitted again, except for TFS, because TFS cannot handle files starting with a $ symbol
- DOCX export: variables were not always replaced when publishing the document
- RTF import: problem with Unicode bullets fixed
- Variables in the publish tasks were not used in command line mode, if the variable replaced a pre-defined variable
- Comments when shown as icon could not be made fullsize again in the dialog.
- Improved Find & Replace function
Furthermore, we have updated the responsive skins that are shipped as standard skins with Help+Manual to improve compatibility with older mobile browsers.
This is, however, not the last update on the new skins. After the release of Help+Manual 7, we got a lot of feedback on the new responsive Webhelp and we are still working on new skins, to integrate your wishes and requirements. Stay tuned for updated and new skins with more configuration options in the next couple of weeks. Those upcoming minor updates, as well as this one, are of course free for registered v7 users.
New Major Release: Help+Manual 7 is Here!
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on June 22, 2015
We are happy to announce the official release of Help+Manual 7!
We literally worked on every detail and implemented many user suggestions in this release. Help+Manual 7 is fully compatible with ultra-high resolution monitors and the editor supports a real zoom. Completely new is the Microsoft Word output in DOCX format, ePUB 3.0, Amazon Kindle, and the eWriter eBooks for Windows: a new format with the potential to be a full replacement for CHM files as documentation for Windows.
Key Features in Version 7
- Responsive Webhelp, responsive images, web videos and SVG
- Multiple TOCs and version control
- New publishing formats: Word (DOCX), ePUB 3.0, Amazon Kindle, EWriter eBooks
- PDF output: support for PDF/A, better font embedding, improved table rendering, chapter feature images
- Lots of detail changes to the user interface, improving usability
Feature overview:
http://www.helpandmanual.com/products_hm_new.html
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