We are glad to announce the release of Help & Manual 4.4.0! This is a maintenance update. In addition to some internal tidying of the program code we have also corrected some issues that a small number of users reported and we have made some preparations for the switch to XML as the primary save format (this will not affect the way the program behaves now). See below for details.

Changes in version 4.4

• PDF Export with multiple TOC references.
  Multiple references from the table of contents (TOC) to the same topic with different anchors caused the topic to be printed multiple times in PDFs and printed manuals. These multiple references are now printed as one topic.
• XML import from translation.
  When importing XML, Help & Manual checks topic IDs for consistency and modifies them if necessary. This is designed for checking XML projects not generated by Help & Manual. However, in some circumstances function also changed IDs when re-importing translated projects. The XML import dialog box now has an option to specify whether the XML data was generated by Help & Manual (translation round-trip) or by an external source.
• Check for upcoming file formats.
  We are going to change the database format to uncompressed XML in the upcoming versions of Help & Manual. The single-file database will be supported as well. New file format checks were implemented to support the upcoming format. Help & Manual is yet not able to read uncompressed XML directly (use the import function instead), but will respond appropriately, if you attempt to open a new format. Multi-file-format checks have been implemented for .HMX and .MNL file types.
• Problem fixes.
  HTML: Images with a caption on a single line are now exported with a <div> tag instead of a <p> tag.
  Small bug fix in Impict: A non-critical access violation occurred in some cases when closing maximized image windows.