May 14th, 2012· Generate eBooks in ePub and MobiPocket / Kindle format; Re-introduced shortcuts to move, add or delete topics; generate Word and PDF documentation in landscape mode; Various enhancements in documentation output; Translated to French; Many fixes and enhancements
March 30th, 2012· Better optimization of pictures when generating HTML and CHM documentation
March 26th, 2012· Less memory and GDI resources used while generating documentation;
· Better PNG transparency for generated Word documents;
· Cursor was moved to the beginning of the topic after pasting;
· Library items were not always correctly replaced;
· Various other bug fixes and performance improvements
March 6th, 2012· Advanced documentation generation customization;
· Enhanced CHM and HTML templates;
· Headings numbering for Word and PDF templates;
· Pasting multiple topics now works correctly;
· Bug fixes and enhancements
January 12th, 2012· Generate JQuery mobile based web-sites;
· Extended table of contents;
· Enhanced past options;
· Automatic compression of imported pictures;
· New Visual Studio like docking system;
· Bug fixes and enhancements
November 8th, 2011· Automatically add a table of contents in PDF and Word documents;
· Introduction of template inheritance;
· Keep or delete temporary files produced for the CHM documentation;
· CTRL+Click to follow hyperlinks in topic editor;
· IPhone generation fixes;
· Better topic editor's popup menu;
· Fixes and improvements
October 1st, 2011· The PDF generator could fail under certain conditions;
September 26th, 2011· Purge option to reduce HND file size;
· Automatic compression of uncompressed pictures;
· New table tools to split, table, sort or convert to text;
· Better style support;
· Performance improvements
September 7th, 2011· Command line generation options;
· Ruler in topic editor;
· Table of contents performance improvements;
· Template and documentation enhancements
August 31st, 2011· CHM importer can now correctly import and interpret links to topics;
· Rewritten project file creating/opening mechanisms to avoid errors;
· HTML template had a few graphical glitches in Internet Explorer 7 and 8;
· Importing files could produce projects files larger than necessary
August 24th, 2011· First public release of HelpNDoc 3.0
· HelpNDoc will now display an error message if opening an unknown project file
· JavaScript search engine didn't return any results in IE7 and IE8
· The paragraph borders and backgrounds button didn't work
August 24th, 2011· Fixed possible exception when creating / opening projects
· Fixed typos in RSS display panel
August 24th, 2011· There were no options for bullets and numbering. They have been added to the context menu
· Changed the sample project to a tutorial project in the installation
· Some Czech characters were not correctly handled in the CHM table of contents
· Can now install OpenOffice.org dictionaries
· Dictionary list is sorted in the popup
· V2 Importer didn't import nodes from external file
· PDF generator didn't take user and owner passwords into account
· PDF generator didn't use the specified encryption level
· Creating an hyperlink for a text in a table sometimes didn't work
· The day long variable behaved incorrectly and could cause Exceptions
· Numbered lists were not reset to 1 at the start of a new topic at generation time
· Adding a link to a variable didn't work at all
August 24th, 2011· V2 Importer: topic with links were set up as normal topics
· V2 Importer: topics without Help ID were created with a non-unique one. We now use the caption to generate a new unique one
· V2 Importer regression between Beta2 and Beta3: topics containing PNG images were not imported correctly
· V2 Importer: variables with links were not correctly imported
· Generator can now generate to relative paths
· Generator will generates to a temporary path if specified output is not accessible / malformed
· HelpNDoc could take a long time to load if recent folders and projects where not accessible
· Color buttons are now behaving correctly with a new color popup
· Working with subset font embedding in PDF now correctly exports bullet points
· The "cannot find default connection" problem should hopefully be fixed
· Topic header / footer kind popup are now correctly selected by default
August 24th, 2011· Added code template for Power Basic. Thanks to HansDieter
· Corrected sample template and VB enum template
· Now all templates info file have an extension entry to specify the file extension to generate to
· Generation output folder edit were spell checked in project option and generation dialog
· CHM can now correctly generate to folders including non-western characters
· oPictures are now correctly resized to fit in PDF and Word documentation as they did in HelpNDoc 2
· Pictures were not correctly aligned vertically in tables in CHM / HTML documentation
· Variable value was not displayed in hint when variable was in a table
· System variables didn't display any hint at all
· Hungarian characters enhancements: some characters where not correctly exported to the CHM table of contents
· An exception could occur when library item names ended with many numeric characters
· PDF generator didn't create links to an anchor in a topic
· oSometimes a topic's position in the table of contents could change unexpectedly and be restored on project saving
· Main form's position is now saved and restored. Bug from V2 with disconnected monitor has been fixed
· Moved registry settings to the "V3" sub-folder to avoid bad interactions with HelpNDoc V2
· Templates can now specify the format of their links to topics and anchors: greater flexibility of generated output
· Help file contains a detailed tutorial on how to create a single page HTML documentation and this sample has been included in the setup
August 24th, 2011· Added tips for the tool-bar buttons
· Imported HelpNDoc v2 projects with accented characters were messed up
· Imported HelpNDoc v2 projects' help id are not synchronized by default and are correctly imported
· Map file was not imported in CHM project
· Insertion popups for library items now show the "Insert another" first to avoid scrolling to the bottom of a very long list
· TXT library items were not inserted and could result in an out of memory exception
· Place-holders for image library items were drawn in Word and PDF documentations
· Local image files were not inserted in Word and PDF documentations
· Library items couldn't be dropped to table cells
· A division by zero exception could occur in some conditions when generating some PDF documents
· Better handling of unicode generation: compiler won't complain again about the [option] line
· Better handling of unicode generation: code won't show additional characters at the beginning
· CHM generator now warns if you are trying to export to a directory containing non-ASCII characters
· Project title is now correctly shown in CHM window
· Adding an URL to the Home / Jump1 / Jump2 buttons of the CHM windows won't cause a compiler error anymore
· Fixed problem with some dictionaries which were displayed as "unknown" when activated
August 24th, 2011· First private beta of HelpNDoc 3
November 2nd, 2010· Better unicode support for the PDF generator
· Speed and file size optimizations in the PDF generator
· Better PDF subset font embedding
· Reported file name in main form's caption was wrong after using "Save as"
· The RSS feed reader sometimes reported an error
· The PDF exporter now correctly generates internal relative links
· The CHM importer now correctly imports link topics
· The CHM importer can now correctly recognize links to internal topics
· The CHM importer sometimes incorrectly imported the table of content in the new project wizard in Windows Vista and 7: only the first item was imported
· The CHM importer sometimes incorrectly imported topic contents in Windows Vista and 7
· HelpNDoc now correctly warns when the opened HND file is not recognized
· Improved the "New project" wizard to handle the TAB and SHIFT + TAB shortcuts for faster indentation / de-indentation
· Inserting a link will now default to the topic caption if the text has not been modified
· Uninstaller is now a signed executable
September 7th, 2010· Initial addition of the library container to manage Flash files
· Local and distant flash files export to HTML and CHM documentation
· Saving to read-only files didn't work and didn't warn about it
· Better table merging algorithm with wide items in the topic editor
· Speed increase in the topic editor
· Enhanced RTF table import
September 7th, 2010· Import of existing compiled CHM Help files
· Word and HTML generators now defines the titles' outline level
· Added Enum and Define C/C++ code generator
· Enhanced the C/C++ const generator
· The table of content is fully expanded when a new project is created
· Better RTF importing
· Improved table resizing using the mouse
· Different resolution JPEG Image size is better exported by the Word generator
· List handling has been enhanced to continue numbering of a previous list if needed
· Enhanced HTML Importer: cell border colors, images and table alignments
July 3rd, 2010· One bug fix as the Word documentation generator could create corrupted files in some cases.
June 13th, 2010· This new version includes a new project wizard for an easier and faster help project creation.
· The new project wizard can import existing CHM table of content and the CHM exporter can be configured to not delete the HHP project files.
March 30th, 2010· This new version is mainly a maintenance release with both bug fixes and documentation enhancements.
· HelpNDoc 2.5 fixes relative links which are now consistently handled between all the documentation formats and generates better HTML, PDF and Word documentation. You can download the completely free HelpNDoc 2.5 from this web-site's download section.
January 31st, 2010· Improved JavaScript search engine which can now search multiple words
· JavaScript search engine words are now highlighted
· Added missing edit popup menus throughout the application
· HTML and Word importers now correctly set up links to external URLs and anchors
· PDF generator did draw curly underlines under substituted variables
· PDF generator did not correctly export anchors in some cases
· Report generator did not always resize images to fit in page's width
· HTML generator now correctly sets up the default topic even if the directory is not purged
December 9th, 2009· Added PDF font embedding configuration to control how the fonts are embedded in the PDF documentation
· Left and Right floating images support (only in CHM, HTML and PDF documentation)
· Text appeared with black background in the PDF option panel
· Variables were not always correctly substituted in PDF and Word documentation
· First implementation: PDF export now resizes images to fit in the content page
· Improved spell checker
· HelpNDoc program file and setup are now signed EXE files
· Improved memory usage
· Maximum picture size in dialog was too small
· Fixed 32-bit PNG image handling
September 5th, 2009· Extended Table of content: Easily and rapidly edit topic ID and Context number
· HTML Table of content can now optionaly be collapsed when generated
· Advanced PDF output options: document encryption, compression and fine layout tuning
· Possibility to insert / remove extra page breaks within the documentation
· HTML search engine did not provide search results for numeric characters
· HTML keywords would not always correctly show up with quoted topic titles
· Incorrect character escaping in HTML table of content
· Topic ID field didn't allow the underscore character
August 2nd, 2009· Search functionality in HTML documentation
· PDF Encoding bug
· PDF Generation exception when bookmarks were not correctly set
· Word generator produces smaller file sizes
· External file's DOC import is more robust
· External file's HTML import wasn't working properly
· Fixed relative links in CHM generation so it behaves the same way as HTML documentation
June 8th, 2009· PDF generator creates the documentation's table of content
· HTML documentation generator outputs the project Keywords
· Spell checker button wasn't always enabled
· Fixed the check for updates link
· Access violation in some rare conditions when exporting Word and PDF documents
· Exported PDF documentation wasn't always generated in the specified path
June 8th, 2009· Microsoft Word DOC and RTF export formats
· Adobe Acrobat PDF export format
· Find and replace now allows the replacement of text by a variable
· New variable kind: Topic title
· Main form's caption now include the currently opened file's name
· Added Variable panel in the topic editor: manage variables and quickly addthem
· Added enum output to the Visual Basic code generation
· Better spell checking option dialog and various spell checkingenhancements: New and improved UI for spelling and configuration dialogs;
· Greatly improved phonetic suggestions; Unicode dictionary support
· Enhanced HTML Export with a better table of content, Search engine optimization (SEO), old browser fallback...
· Better CHM unicode support
· RSS Feed reader in the welcome page to keep informed of HelpNDoc news
· "Purge HTML Files" is now saved with the project
· Download dictionary link was incorrect
· Anchors were badly displayed in the topic editor
October 5th, 2008· New options for CHM export: window size, position, visible buttons and navigation options are now customizable
· CHM Topic HTML file wasn't standard compliant
· Added the /silent command line switch to avoid user inputs during batch compilation
· Fixed the spell checker to be more Windows Vista compliant
· Default font and default table of content font were not correctly saved with the project
July 20th, 2008· Keyword index was not working with new file names
· Specific links to relative topics were not working with new file names
· Command line was not working anymore
· Various fixes and enhancements in the Topic Editor
June 1st, 2008· Exported HTML files can now optionally have its topic ID as a name
· Smart popup in the topic editor to easily change a variable
· * Fixed a bug when assigning an image to a topic and moving with the arrow keys
· * Better handling of PNG images: some transparent PNG were not resizable
July 23rd, 2007· Fixed the export of background images in the topics
· Possibility to use subscript and superscript formatting options
· Various bug fixes
May 28th, 2007· Better Windows Vista compatibility
· Fixed HelpNDoc's help file display exception under Windows Vista
· Fix for the & character in project title when exporting to CHM
· Right Alt A was selecting all the topic's text and caused problems with certain keyboard layouts
· Lower memory usage for GIF images
· Better table support
· Better HTML Import / Export
· Topic Editor enhancements and bug fixes
May 30th, 2006· Live spell checker could take 100% CPU time on certain condition; Support of relative URLs when exporting; Interface layout is now saved between sessions; Various bug fixes
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