We are glad to announce the availability of Help & Manual 5.5!
Although this update is classified as a free maintenance release, we have implemented some really exciting new features!
Google Analytics Support
Google Analytics (GA) is an enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your Webhelp traffic. By integrating Google Analytics, you can track how the content of your Webhelp system is used. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. Google Analytics gives you the information you need to write better help.
Help & Manual's direct integration of Google Analytics offers even more detailed insights. In addition to the tracking content, landing and exit pages, you can track exactly what your Webhelp users are searching for, and finding. Additional tracking capability includes keyword usage and exits from topics that point to external locations, including download links.
Google Analytics Example
PDF with Named Destinations
In the 5.4 update earlier this year, when we completely revised the integrated PDF engine and the manual layout designer.
With this update, we have added more functionality and automatically create PDF with so-called named destinations for every page, section and topic. Named destinations are PDF bookmarks that you can address directly by a HTML link. Simply put, it is context sensitive help for PDF files.
Additional effort has been made to improve synthesized fonts in PDF. Many Windows fonts include only a regular typeface but no dedicated bold and italic typefaces. Windows simulates those effects on the fly. So do we in PDF with Help & Manual 5.5.
Minor improvements and problem fixes
Project overview: the list of recently edited topics in the project overview has a "Copy to clipboard" link to copy a link list of those topics to the clipboard.
Webhelp: minor changes to XHTML export. Improved cross-linking of merged projects.
ePUB (e-books): small bug fix for the ePUB header file.
HTML Help (.CHM) import: ambiguous image names (same file name in different internal folders) are now properly resolved. Title tags of images are preserved.
PDF: improvement for numbered lists with numbers in bold typeface (baseline of the text was not 100% correct). Long dashes were written as short hyphens.
Help 2.0 (.HXS): in the <HelpCollection> tag, the project title and copyright were HTML encoded instead of XML
Robohelp import: build tags are now applied to TOC and topics.
Bug in keyword sorting in topic editor fixed.
Sandcastle import: text at the bottom of import pages removed.
