Help & Manual 5.3.2 Maintenance Update

March 3, 2010

We are glad to announce the availability of Help & Manual 5.3.2! This is a maintenance release, free for all version 5 users.

The update focuses on minor improvements and and is recommended for all Help & Manual 5 users.

Together with Help & Manual 5.3.2 we have also released a maintenance update for Premium Pack, which now has the version number 1.24. 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. See the user forum for details on the changes.

Improvements and bug fixes in Help & Manual 5.3.2

  • Spelling check: new Czech dictionaries are included. Furthermore, the path for the default user dictionary has been changed from "%Userdocs%" to "%UserDocs\My HelpAndManual Projects".
  • Webhelp: image files names with German umlauts were not encoded properly, links from secondary windows back to the main window attempted to open a new window.
  • Webhelp and HTML Help: export order of picture hotspots has been changed to better support overlapping hotspots.
  • Webhelp: in right-to-left projects, the indentation of the TOC icons was incorrect.
  • Import: when importing CHM files, Help & Manual automatically uppercased the first character of every HTML file.
  • Image Hotspot Editor: a bug in the German translation caused English strings to be written to data
  • PDF Export: optional no keyword sections implemented. If the keyword section list is an empty string, Help & Manual will print the keywords in alphabetical order without keyword sections headings.
  • Open Picture dialog box: optical glitch in Windows 7 fixed.
  • Topic Editor: when editing a table, the table ID and table style are displayed in the status bar.
  • Topic Editor: reading topics with special bullets was broken - the bullet symbol was incorrect
  • XML format: some XML files happened to miss the UTF-8 byte order mark at the beginning of the file, causing problems when editing topics with a simple text editor.
  • Insert Image menu command: the dropdown gallery for recently used images and bookmarked pictures has been improved to open more quickly.
  • HTML Help Export with Toggle objects: when a dropdown toggle was expanded because of a search highlight, the corresponding icon has the wrong state.
  • Exporting HTML code objects to file: overwrite confirmation was missing.
  • Richtext Import: minor problems fixed
  • Command line compilation improved for quicker compilation and more stability
  • General: under certain circumstances, Help & Manual did not properly clean up its temporary files.

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.

Version 1.24 of the Premium Pack includes an attractive new feature and two small corrections for the ToggleJump function:

  • Show/Hide TOC: You can now activate a slide-out button with which users can show/hide the TOC in Webhelp.
  • ToggleJump to some anchor targets occasionally failed in Internet Explorer on some slower computers.
  • ToggleJump now also works with links in image hotspots linking to targets on the same page as the link.

This is a free update if you already own the Premium Pack. However, you need to download the Premium Pack 1.24 update separately (it is not included in Help & Manual installer). You can download using the link you received when you originally purchased the Premium Pack. 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.

Download Help & Manual 5.3.2