Help & Manual 4.32 released

August 30, 2007

We are glad to announce the release of Help & Manual 4.32! This is primarily a maintenance update to correct some issues that a few users have reported.

Download:

You can download the update from our download page.

Changes in version 4.32

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A recent Windows update made Internet Explorer 7 start reporting a spurious JavaScript error when the script for auto-collapsing the Table of Contents in Browser-based Help was executed.

Embedding of Type 1 fonts such as Frutiger did not work in the latest update of the PDF engine used in Help & Manual. This has been corrected in collaboration with the PDF engine programmers.

Sorting of index keywords starting with non-alpha characters like "-" has been improved for PDF export. The headings for entries starting with such characters now also use the first alpha character instead of the non-alpha character.

In some circumstances spurious page breaks would be inserted in PDF documents if the first paragraph in a topic was set to "Keep lines together".

When printing PDF documents with topics containing more than 100 pages a warning message is displayed. This message now includes a Cancel button enabling you to abort the print job to save paper.

In some circumstances empty lines/paragraphs following an embedded topic would be deleted incorrectly, leaving no space between the embedded topic and the following paragraph.

In PDF output paragraphs with both background colors and borders with an offset from the text had additional white space between the background and the border. This was another issue associated with the updated PDF engine.

When table cells spanned more than one row vertically the cell borders in the next row were not painted correctly. This was an issue associated with the recent update enabling page breaks inside cells/rows in PDF output.

Inline text toggles (text that expands within a paragraph when the user clicks the toggle link) was not expanded for print and PDF output when Print Expanded was activated.

A new <IFNOT_TOGGLES> condition has been implemented for HTML export as a complement to the existing <IF_TOGGLES> condition. These conditions allow you to include or exclude content in your HTML templates depending on whether or not the current topic contains toggles.