We are glad to announce that Help & Manual 5.0.5 is available. This update introduces several minor improments.
We recommend to update to version 5.0.5 to all 5.x users!
Improvements and additions
Editing skins enabled for the Standard version! This feature was previously included in the Professional edition only.
Export with skins: the standard skins now include a preview image. There are more professionally designed skins to come and the preview will make selection a lot easier. Furthermore, the export dialog box loads custom build options from skins, if used. This enables conditional compiles with skins based on simple build switches.
Export with merged projects: better warning message if a child project could not be found.
Improved project report: better style and more information about merged projects.
Insert topic dialog: better topic ID suggestion
Translation: new configuration file for SDL Trados included
User defined variables: variables now have a "protected" option to prevent the variables from unintentional editing (for translation - the switch is saved as the translate attribute). Furthermore, custom variables are sorted.
Richtext (Word) export: better handling for multiple TOC references to the same topic
Adobe PDF export: support for extended link syntax that points to a particular page. Furthermore, an updated PDF engine comes with improved rendering capabilities. Synthesized fonts such as Tahoma Italic are now supported.
E-book export: support for Adobe Digital Editions (EPUB format) implemented. This output format is still in an experimental state and works in addition to the regular Windows e-book output.
Bug fixes
Multi-user editing: we have implemented a few fixes for concurrent multi-user authoring, to avoid situations where topic file locking failed to work. Furthermore, when changing a topic ID, the automatic scan of all links to this topic locked other topics despite they were not changed.
Spell checker & live spelling: live spelling did not work with some east-european special characters, causing the words to be red underlined, despite they were correctly spelled.
A few minor fixes for XHTML output: width attribute was exported in some cases, although it is depricated
Baggage file handling: case sensitive bug fixed, overwrite warning implemented
Syntax highlighter was not properly initialized. The syntax highlighter now treats keywords loaded from an external list without spaces
Saving a skin as skin with a different name did not work.
Topic title in CHM files was encoded with entities instead of plain text.
Webhelp export: standard icons have been renamed to match the old naming scheme from version 4.
Minor tweaks to the Find & Replace function as well as to Edit Styles and Create Style from Selection.
Bug fix for a rare AV that occured with multiple monitors
XML parser did ignore empty paragraphs
Convert for HMX files did not read multiple help context numbers assigned to the same topic
HTML code objects: the HTML code was exported with a trailing line break after the object code, causing unwanted spaces if used in text.
Bulleted lists with custom bullets: it was possible to select an invalid bullet character, causing an AV on the attempt to change it
