Just right before Christmas comes this update of Help & Manual 5.3.1! This is a maintenance release, free for all version 5 users.
The update irons out minor glitches in the recently introduced German version and mostly improves performance in combination with version control systems.
Together with Help & Manual 5.3.1 we have also released a maintenance update for Premium Pack 1.2, which now has the version number 1.23. You can check your current version by looking in the main help of Help & Manual -- the chapter for the Premium Pack will display the version number in its title (Premium Pack 1.2, 1.21, 1.22 or 1.23).
Improvements and bug fixes in Help & Manual 5.3.1
German User Interface
The long-awaited German user interface is available since Help & Manual 5.3. The German UI of the integrated image editor Impict, however, still had a bug which created an access violation when selecting non-standard image masks. This problem has been fixed now.
Improved Performance with Version Control
Version 5.3.1 improves performance in combination with version control systems such as Visual SourceSafe. Version control support has received a lot of attention in the 5.3 October update already. This release now significantly improves performance when the projects are bound to a VCS or are stored on a slow file system / network.
Premium Pack Update
The Premium Pack is an add-on for Help & Manual with 14 professionally-designed skins that can be applied to your projects in seconds when you publish. The Premium Pack update requires Help & Manual 5.3 and implements several cool new features, including sortable tables, a drop-down navigation menu in topics (click to scroll to a heading in the topic) and the ability to link to anchors inside expanding text blocks (toggles).
This is a free update if you already own Premium Pack 1.0. However, you need to download the Premium Pack 1.2 update separately (it is not included in Help & Manual installer). You can download using the link you received when you originally purchased Premium Pack 1.0. The installer will automatically back up your old version.
If you don't yet have the Premium Pack click here to learn more about it. You can purchase it directly in our online store.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
Copy & paste sometimes not worked in topic options
Text editor context menu: Insert Image item disappeared on selection
HTML Help: some Thai vowels were not exported correctly
Drag & drop in TOC: when the target was scolled in and not visible before, the dragged item was misplaced
