EC Software announces the availability of Help & Manual 5.0.3. This is a maintenance update that fixes one critical bug that caused problems when deleting and renaming topics in a newly created help project. This update is recommended for all 5.x users!
Speed improvements
The most important changes concern the overal speed of Help & Manual 5, especially when working with large projects and even more so if you use the compressed XML format (.hmxz). While you won't notice much with small projects on a fast computer, the improvements are dramatic when working with large compressed project files (> 5000 topics). Speed improvements affect opening a project, editing, inserting links, publishing and saving a project.
Bug fixes and minor improvements
Several minor problems have been fixed with this update. I am listing them here for overview:
* Bug fixes in treeview (this should fix some spurious access violations)
* Wrong encoding for special characters in HTML code objects (Webhelp only)
* Help context tool: values > 2147483647 were not imported from external files
* Encoding for Russian a-keywords in HTML Help changed
* Keyword Index Tool: error message when assigning keywords to anchors
* Export dialog: Status was not remembered
* PDF export: cross references to topics in child projects were not exported as links
* Export: memory leak with embedded topics fixed
* Merged projects did not export help context numbers
* Bug fix for horizontal lines which could not be deleted
* When copying styles from another project, styles were not saved correctly
* HTML based outputs: topic init script has been moved to the end of the <head> section to avoid wrong encoding with some browsers * Topic title in CHM files: variables were not replaced
* HMX converter now always converts with compile-time merging option
* Keep lines and Keep next were not highlighted when active
* Template editors: find & replace activated
* Template editors: new context menu item to insert HTML color
* Impict: restore glitch with screen capture fixed
