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most of the time, the "translate" button in the deepl plugin window is just grayed out. This is because the plugin uses the text displayed at the bottom, after you select the individual item. You must then select the text shown in the field at the bottom for it to appear in the plugin win...

There are some important things you need to set up for international fonts with special character sets to work correctly. Also, when working with Asian languages you need to configure your Windows environment for the ancient CHM system that has not been updated since 1998. You need to set up both yo...

Hi Ingrid, This is already possible: Open Styles > Edit Styles and then select the Copy Styles From... button to import the styles from your other project. They will come in along with their shortcuts. Alternatively, and even more efficiently, you can use a central style repository for your styles a...

Hi Ingrid,

Sorry, but column layout is a page setting in PDF Manual Designer, so it applies to the entire page. There's not currently any way of having it start within the page.

appleton wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:13 pm Thank you for the offer. It is very much appreciated but it looks like I'll be OK now.

You're welcome -- glad to hear you've managed to get it sorted.
Also: Daily backups on external media are your best friend.

I also tested the Kindle Previewer 3 on Windows and the Kindle App on Android. Also I just searched for epub online viewer and tried a few free sugestions. All had problems, but one could display it properly but then hung.. Thanks a lot -- ePub is unfortunately still decades behind any other HTML r...

Hi Gerold, Which viewers specifically are you testing? I can reproduce this in Calibre, and it is a Calibre error that it is not displaying the embedded bitmap correctly. Since this appears to be quite common we are probably going to switch to exporting PNG only to ePub and Mobi in the next update. :?

Update: There is a roundabout way to achieve this. If you have a Mac available you can use the Mac eViewer to open it. This viewer works by unpacking the contents to the Mac's standard temp directory, from where you can then recover all the HTML files and images while the viewer is still open. If yo...

Hi Apple,

I'm not sure about this. I'm checking with our developers and we'll get back to you on it. You may have to resort to your latest daily backuip.

Hi Gerold,

I can reproduce this issue as well, also in Calibre. We're on it.

Hi Gerold,

Thanks for posting this. I can reproduce the behavior in SnipSVG => Help+Manual and we'll get it fixed asap. (I've moved this topic to the SnipSVG section as it's more relevant there)

IF_ISDEFAULT_PAGE still not mentioned in documentation, can this be fixed? Somehow it never got added, but both <IF_ISDEFAULT_PAGE> and <IFNOT_ISDEFAULT_PAGE> are definitely supported since build 841 of version 8. I've made a note of this for updating the help. Thanks for reporting it. 8)

Andrew Sowerby wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:39 pm Later: Yes of course it is! Again, the answer appears a little while after posting. Apologies!

No problem, glad you got it sorted.

Hi Martin, My guess is that those chapters and snippets either weren't excluded from publishing or were left over and not deleted from an earlier publish operation. Since the search index is generated from whatever files are in the output folder, they would also be included in it if they were presen...

Hi Andrew, This is a bizarre little bug that took a while to locate because it only affects the last topic in the project. Actually, it should affect every topic -- this behavior appears to be another weird quirk of the CHM system, that hasn't been updated since 1998. It's caused by a missing closin...