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by Tim Green
Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Updates for Help+Manual, HelpXplain and Help+Manual Translation Assistant
Replies: 0
Views: 1812

Updates for Help+Manual, HelpXplain and Help+Manual Translation Assistant

February brings a slew of updates for Help+Manual 9, HelpXplain and Help+Manual Translation Assistant. They include a wide range of improvements, some fixes for issues and the addition of even more extensive support for the SnipX image format of our upcoming SnipSVG screen capture and screenshot enh...
by Tim Green
Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: Best way to handle a composite manual?
Replies: 2
Views: 196

Re: Best way to handle a composite manual?

Hi Chris, The Title property is down in common properties... frequently we forget to change this before publishing, so we publish a Tutorials manual with the "Admin Guide" title on the titlepage etc. How can we set the title by either build tags or table of content selection? I would sugge...
by Tim Green
Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: How to find where styles are used?
Replies: 1
Views: 164

Re: How to find where styles are used?

Hi Dexter, There isn't any function to show you where specific styles are used, unfortunately. However, you can achieve this quite easily with any code editor (like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code, both of which are free and excellent) that can search through multiple files. Just search through all ...
by Tim Green
Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: Cannot find dead anchor link!
Replies: 3
Views: 240

Re: Cannot find dead anchor link!

Hi Laini, The easiest way to find things like this is to open the topic file or snippet file affected and then select the XML editor tab on the left of the main editor window. Click in the XML code to activate the XML editor, then press CTRL+F to search and you can then search for things like anchor...
by Tim Green
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:12 am
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: SnipSVG
Replies: 1
Views: 170

Re: SnipSVG

Hi Tim, We're going to open up a separate forum section after the release. Until then, posting here is fine. Is there going to be a way to obfuscate. pixelate, or blur a small area of a screen shot? Or have I not yet searched for the right word to describe this? This is not only already there, it is...
by Tim Green
Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: HelpXplain Infographics Tool
Topic: How can I set the spotlight size for a presentation uniformly?
Replies: 1
Views: 232

Re: How can I set the spotlight size for a presentation uniformly?

Hi Tolzmann, You can't globally set the size of an element in multiple slides like that, but here are two tips that may help: You can copy and paste a spotlight just like any other element, so you can clone it to other slides, along with any attributes and its animation. If you use the Chain animati...
by Tim Green
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: Inaccessible chapters and snippets are also included in the search
Replies: 3
Views: 311

Re: Inaccessible chapters and snippets are also included in the search

Hi Martin, There is definitely something wrong here. Please mail me a demo project to support AT ec-software.com (replace the AT with @) with some sample topics that reproduce the issue. You can create this project as follows: ​1: Select Save As.. in the File menu and save the project in the single-...
by Tim Green
Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:46 am
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Improvements for adding links to other topics
Replies: 2
Views: 773

Re: Improvements for adding links to other topics

Hi Marc,

We've already improved this -- now you can activate the variable directly with a checkbox in the link tool:

TargetTitle.gif
You can get this change right away with the current stable beta of HM9 if you wish:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/download/ ... p-v941.exe
by Tim Green
Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: New Screenshot and Graphics Tool
Replies: 0
Views: 1995

New Screenshot and Graphics Tool

There's something new coming in February: SnipSVG, our new SVG-based screenshot and graphics tool for both Windows and macOS. See this news blog post for the first details about what it is and what it can do, and a beta :

https://www.helpandmanual.com/news/2024 ... -february/
by Tim Green
Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:48 am
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Improvements for adding links to other topics
Replies: 2
Views: 773

Re: Improvements for adding links to other topics

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your suggestions, which I'm passing on to our developers. Note that we get a lot of suggestions (most of them by email) and there is a very long list of things that may or may not be implemented, so we can't promise if and when something will actually turn up in the program. :?
by Tim Green
Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:44 am
Forum: Help & Manual 7 Forum
Topic: Configuring Several Tables
Replies: 1
Views: 221

Re: Configuring Several Tables

Hi "Jakerola", I just checked this and in the current version 9 Help+Manual definitely does import a CSS class with a table, and if you define that class in your table styles in Write > Styles > Edit Styles it will definitely be used. The style settings for tables are pretty basic, however...
by Tim Green
Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Help+Manual 9 Forum
Topic: Inaccessible chapters and snippets are also included in the search
Replies: 3
Views: 311

Re: Inaccessible chapters and snippets are also included in the search

Hi Martin, It will just be a coincidence that this is happening with your new update. It has nothing to do with any change in Help+Manual. There are several possible reasons for this, which may also be combined. First, the special case of your snippet files, which is also covered in 2) below: You mu...
by Tim Green
Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:56 am
Forum: Help & Manual 7 Forum
Topic: Iframe
Replies: 1
Views: 279

Re: Iframe

Hi Paul,

Which skin are you using? Please show your iFrame HTML and CSS code.
by Tim Green
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Help+Manual 8 Forum
Topic: Condtional text in the first list item
Replies: 2
Views: 611

Re: Condtional text in the first list item

Hi Anti, Unfortunately, Marc's solution is currently the only workaround for this. Because of the way both lists and IFDEF tags work, they are not compatible with each other when they are in such close proximity. The IF tag needs to be in the previous paragraph and should also have a space directly ...
by Tim Green
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: Help & Manual 5 Forum
Topic: Hidden topic appears only in search in compiled webhelp
Replies: 4
Views: 4187

Re: Hidden topic appears only in search in compiled webhelp

I'm getting the same issue. I've now hidden all topics except one simple one so they included in "None" builds Yet the CHM file generated only contains that one topic in it's TOC and the search/index includes lots of entries which open topics that should not have been included. Please see...