Posts Tagged Help+Manual
Help+Manual 9.1 Released
Posted by Alexander Halser in Help+Manual, Software Updates, Translation on April 8, 2023
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 9.1 and Translation Assistant 9.1.
Help+Manual 9.1
- Insert Link Dialog: New checkbox implemented that indicates whether the link points to the current topic. Ticking the checkbox (if unchecked) changes to the current topic.
- Insert Table dialog: Checkbox added to tick all border sides of selected cells at once.
- Save Picture Dialog: The automatic unique file name suggestion (save as “clipXXXX.png”) includes the username and computer name into the suggested file name, if a project is under version control. With version control, it is otherwise very likely to generate identical file names on different computers
- Publishing tasks: In the Variables tab, import/export buttons for publishing variables have been re-implemented
- SVG images: Colors defined with an RGBA() color definition are now correctly rendered.
- Export dialog: The number of recently used skins is now limited to 15. The list was (unintentionally) not limited.
- Import: Improved memory management when importing large chunks of HTML files
- HTML Export: If an image contained one or more hotspots, had a caption, a flexible width and was centered on the page and did not use an image style with a border, the HTML written for the image contained one </div> tag too many and was invalid.
- eWriter Export: The udpated eViewer.exe version 3.4 is included. When creating an .EXE file, the output file is created in the Windows temp folder first, then customized, then copied to the destination, to avoid interference with Dropbox, OneDrive, AV programs interuptions.
- PDF Export: If the table of figures was printed before topics and the TOF spanned more than 1 page, the TOF entries after the first page did not contain page numbers.
- PDF Export: Some special characters such as the Ohm symbol (Ω) where rendered with a replacement character in certain cases.
- DeepL Plugin: Korean and Norwegian added.
Translation Assistant 9.1
- DeepL Plugin: Korean and Norwegian added.
- DeepL Plugin: Protected words (formatted with the lock symbol) were not correctly escaped in the processed XML and were returned including the <hmprtct> tags.
- Bulk translation: improved error handling and error report implemented.
eWriter Viewer 3.4
- eViewer 3.4 fixes a problem with topics that contain a “+” in the file name.
All updates are available from our download page.
Help+Manual Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in eWriter, Help+Manual on February 9, 2023
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 9.03 and Translation Assistant 9.03.
Help+Manual 9.0.3
- French User Interface: several bug fixes in the French UI translation.
- eWriter Viewer 3.3: the udpated eViewer.exe version 3.3 is included for creating eWriter e-books. Note that eWriter Viewer 3.3 is available as a stand-alone installer as well. See below for details.
- DeepL Plugin: bug fix for protected word lists.
- Word/DOCX export: second-level keywords from snippets were not correctly indexed.
- Image Styles: images with rounded corners – if the picture had round corners and no spacing between image and border, the border radius was wrong in PDF export.
- Insert Picture Toggles: picture selection dialog now offers custom image formats as well.
Translation Assistant 9.0.3
- DeepL Plugin: bug fix for protected word lists.
eWriter Viewer 3.3
- eViewer 3.3 has an About dialog showing the version number. This About dialog is displayed along with the “Recent Files” menu option. Self-extracting EXE eBooks or custom deployments of the eViewer executable (which do not show a recent files list), don’t show the About dialog, either.
- Bug fix: window position on start was moved by 20 pixels. This should have been applied to secondary viewer windows to offset them from the first window, but was applied to the initial first window as well.
- eWriter Help System for Delphi / RAD Studio updated for eViewer 3.x
All updates are available from our download page.
December Updates
Posted by Alexander Halser in eWriter, Help+Manual, Software Updates on December 16, 2022
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 9.02 and Translation Assistant 9.02.
Maintenant, Help+Manual parle français
Version 9.0.2 comes with an optional French user interface. This is a somewhat risky step for us, because nobody here speaks French and we neither can evaluate the quality of the translation, nor can we provide email support in French. But we wanted to give to a try, though. Please consider the French user interface as “beta test”, you can always switch back to English, if something doesn’t work. The translation is courtesy of Christophe Willefert, a French user of Help+Manual. Translation errors are courtesy of EC Software.
We expect this to be the last update for 2022 and wish all our customers around the world a happy and peaceful holiday season! Read the rest of this entry »
Help+Manual 9 and Translation Assistant Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in Help+Manual, Translation on November 29, 2022
This is a maintenance update for Help+Manual 9 and Translation Assistant 9.
Help+Manual 9.0.1
- New: PDF export has a new option in Config > Publishing > PDF > Options: Tab Display defines whether the PDF viewer displays the document file name or document title
- New: Version Control multi-level check for hidden folder in CUSTOM VERSION CONTROL implemented
- Repositories: binding a new help project to an existing repository raised an error
- Link dialog: when inserting a topic link, selecting an anchor from the drop-down list has caused an error in some cases.
- HTML Export: images with a flexible width had a “max-width” too large, when image borders were applied by style
- PDF snippets in topics: in Word/DOCX and HTML export, only the first page of an external PDF was included, if the page range was unspecified.
- Insert picture with copy & paste from clipboard did not auto-assign the “Default” picture style
- Webhelp configuration, Google Analytics session: when GA was set, a switch-back to “no GA” was only possible by deleting the GA key (ticking the box “Do not use GA” did not clear the key)
- Markdown Import: markdown files are assumed to be generally UTF-8 encoded.
H&M normally determines the text encoding from the file’s byte order mark. But it is very common for markdown files to be UTF-8 encoded without an explicit byte order mark. - German User Interface: misspelling and glitches in the German translation fixed.
Translation Assistant 9.0.1
- Link dialog: when inserting a topic link, selecting an anchor from the drop-down list has caused an error in some cases.
Both updates are available from our download page.
Help+Manual 9 – New Major Release!
Posted by Alexander Halser in eWriter, Help+Manual, PDF, Skins, Software Updates, Version Control, WebHelp on November 19, 2022
With great pleasure we announce the release of Help+Manual version 9!
This is a major release with plenty of new features, most importantly: support for GIT.
What’s new in Help+Manual 9
- Version Control with GIT Support
- Image Styles
- Figure Tables and Figure Links
- PDF Merging
- Premium Pack 5
- And a lot more…
GIT Support in Help+Manual 9
Click here to learn more about this major update!
If you are currently using Help+Manual 8…
Please note that version 9 uses the same license keys as Help+Manual 8 – your current license keys remain valid! Version 9 is a free update for all users of Help+Manual 8 with active maintenance.
How can you find out if your version 8 license still includes maintenance?
- Start your current version of Help+Manual 8
- In the Help tab, click “License and Maintenance”
- If maintenance includes November 19, version 9 is included as free update
- If it has expired, click “Extend Maintenance Period” to renew it
Help+Manual Translation Assistant – Build 450
Posted by Alexander Halser in Help+Manual on November 16, 2022
We have released a small maintenance update for Help+Manual Translation Assistant. This is a free update for all users of the TA.
Version 9.0 build 450 is available from our download page:
https://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads.html
Changes in this build
- Topic Editor: if a topic was present when opening the project but has been deleted in the meantime, the editor displays a meaningful error message when selecting this topic.
- Refresh Project: the currently loaded node was not auto-refreshed, e.g. a selected topic was not updated if it had been changed outside the TA.
- DeepL Plugin: the tags <embedded-image> and <embedded-object> have been added to the ignore tags. This solves the problem that embedded images were treated as plain text streams.
Happy Anniversary: Help+Manual is 25 Years Old!
Posted by Alexander Halser in Help+Manual, HelpXplain on November 14, 2022
Can you believe this? Help+Manual is 25 years old! And we are excited to celebrate this anniversary with you:
25 Years!
25 Days!
25% Discount on all products!
Help+Manual Translation Assistant Released!
Posted by Alexander Halser in Help+Manual on October 19, 2022
We are glad to announce the immediate release of our newest product!
HMTA complements Help+Manual
Help+Manual Translation Assistant, or HMTA, is a tool for for translating and updating the translations of Help+Manual documentation projects. It gives you direct side-by-side comparisons, and when you need to update an old translation it gives you an additional content-based comparison between the old and new versions of the original project.
Translating a project side-by-side with the master
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eViewer 3.2 for Windows – Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in eWriter, Software Updates on October 1, 2022
We just released an update to the eViewer executables for Windows (both 32 and 64 bit). The installer of Help+Manual 8.5 has been updated as well to include the new eViewer exe. This is the second maintenance update for eViewer since the release of version 3 (see also: v3.1 update).
eViewer Version 3.2 for Windows
- Self-contained exe-ebooks created with Help+Manual did require the explicit file name in the command line syntax (e.g. myebook.exe myebook.exe 1234 to load a context number). This has been eliminated and the old syntax is supported again (e.g. myebook.exe 1234 to load a context number).
- When the viewer application was called with a file name that did not exist, it got stuck as an invisible task and did not automatically terminate.
- The app-button dropdown arrow is now hidden, if the app button does not have a menu.
- Internal file links from one .ewriter book to another .ewriter book: data file names without a full path are now expanded (based on the current source).
- Internet links in topics, that address other ewriter books with the “ewriter://” protocoll are now supported by the Windows viewer.
Downloads
eViewer 3.2 for Windows (stand-alone installers for 32 and 64 bit)
eWriter as Application Help (redistributables)
Help+Manual 8.5 as released per Aug 21, 2022
(Help+Manual remains unchanged but includes the updated eViewer.exe)
eViewer 3.1 for Windows – Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in eWriter, Help+Manual, Software Updates on September 13, 2022
We just released an update to the eViewer executables for Windows (both 32 and 64 bit). The installer of Help+Manual 8.5 has been updated as well to include the new eViewer exe.
eViewer Version 3.1 for Windows
The viewer did not properly pick up the system-wide title bar accent color. Instead, the title bar of the viewer window remained dark gray. This bug has been fixed with the new version. Read the rest of this entry »