We are glad to announce the release of Help & Manual 4.51!
This update is recommended for all users of Help & Manual version 4.x and introduces a couple of new features as well as a fix for the XML export. See below for details.
Changes in version 4.51
Webhelp export: script changes to prevent automatic TOC synchronization Topic redirection script changed to prevent automatic switching. When a topic is opened with the search string "toc=0", it does not automatically load the TOC. The string "toc=0" is hardcoded and must be lowercase.
User interface: tree view can be locked To prevent unintentional drag & drop operations in the Table of Contents, you can intentionally lock the tree view. This is a new command button right above the table of contents.
Print manual designer: new font button A new font button was implemented in the font dialog box for text objects, offering a broader font color selection.
XML Export and Import Help & Manual can export XML data directly to a ZIP archive. To improve compatibility, the file name encoding inside the ZIP archive has been changed and now works with the local codepage.
Bug fix: custom HTML code in movie objects was not imported correctly from a translated XML source.
Bug fix: if a help window did not have a header, this setting was not preserved.
Find & Replace: small fix When searching for text in image file names, the found image was highlighted (selected), but not automatically scrolled into view.
Copy & paste of entries in the table of contents When copying and pasting TOC entries in the same project, the internal node IDs were copied too, resulting in duplicate node IDs. This problem may affect project synchronization and XML export/import.
The Tools > Repair function fixes the problem and assigns new node IDs where duplicate IDs are found.
Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements
Insert Toggles dialog: Small bug fix in initialization section that may have caused an error.
Image toggles: When converting a picture to an image toggle, "print expanded" is not selected by default.
eBook export: an error sound occured when clicking on chapters without text.
Batch export: When the predefined variable <%TITLE%> was overloaded by an external configuration file, the overloaded value was not used in some situations.
Project Synchronization: New option to synchronize TOC by topic IDs. This option is intended to synchronize projects that have never been synchronized before and were created independently.
HTML import: improvements to anchor handling and import of dedicated <div> IDs.
