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HelpNDoc Version 6.9.0.577
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This file contains useful information about HelpNDoc, an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive environment to create help files and documentations.

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CONTENTS
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1. Welcome!
2. System Requirements
3. Installing HelpNDoc
4. First steps with HelpNDoc
5. Purchasing HelpNDoc
6. Version Information
7. Obtaining technical support

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1. Welcome!
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IBE Software would like to welcome you to HelpNDoc. We, at IBE Software, believe that you will never see the creation of help files and documentations the same way as before using HelpNDoc.

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2. System Requirements
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Recommended Configuration:
  - Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10
  - 512MB of RAM 
  - 80MB of free disk space
  - 1024x768 screen resolution or higher
  - Help Compiler: Microsoft HTML Help Workshop. Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14188
  - MobiPocket/Kindle Compiler: Amazon KindleGen. Download: http://www.amazon.com/kindleformat/KindleGen
  - Qt Help Compiler: https://www.qt.io/download

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3. Installing HelpNDoc
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Just run the helpndoc-setup.exe file and follow the instructions. You can install HelpNDoc over a previously installed version. Don't forget to backup any existing project prior to updating.

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4. First steps with HelpNDoc
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You can use the help file to help you get started with the environment.

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5. Purchasing HelpNDoc
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You can find more information about ordering HelpNDoc by following this link:
https://www.helpndoc.com/store

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6. Version Information
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V6.9.0.577 - May 5, 2020

+ New BarCode library item: create and customize EAN-8, EAN-13, MSI, QR Codes... and place them within your topics
+ Project analyzer now lists all anchors defined within the project and provides a way to rapidly locate them
+ Project analyzer reports the number of anchors and Barcodes used throughout the project
* Inserting new library items using the "Insert" ribbon tab, placed them at the start of the topic instead of the cursor position
* Picture properties (Alt text, size, position...) were not always updated when selecting pictures in the topic editor
* Picture format and table layout ribbon tabs now keep focus when selecting images or tables in various parts of a topic (e.g. moving in, out and between table cells...)
* Command line interface didn't always work when selecting builds by name as part of the following options: -except; -only; -output; -status; -tags; -template
* Overriding output path from the command line could fail for some documentation formats when using relative paths
* Focusing topics in the table of contents could be slow for large projects
* Fixed incorrect column width saving for some projects for Word and PDF documentation format
* Changing URL of "URL topics" or File path of "External file" topics could cause exceptions
* Optimized and removed flicker of "Picture Tools" and "Table Tools" ribbon groups when moving the cursor in various parts of a topic
* Fixed memory leaks when importing CHM help files which could produce "Out of Memory" errors when importing large files
* Resized images could be distorted when exported to PDF
* Faster import of large CHM help files
* Improved HTML and RTF/Doc/DocX importers
* Various user interface tweaks, fixes and enhancements, including for High DPI screens

V6.8.0.521 - March 10, 2020

+ It is now possible to directly import CHM help files' HHP source projects
+ Options dialog now includes a keyboard shortcut editor to simplify the definition of some commonly used keyboard shortcuts
+ The following styles keyboard shortcuts are now customizable: use normal style, promote or demote paragraph, apply heading 1 to 3
+ Ability to reset any part of the application settings from the "File" / "Options" dialog: General settings, compilers, UI, custom folders, keyboard shortcuts...
+ The floating license server is now available for x64 and ARM64 versions of Windows, in addition to the existing x86 version
* Image width and height ribbon edit fields didn't always behave properly
* When converting an image map to an image and vice-versa, the library item wasn't updated in all topics
* Improved CHM help importer: handle additional edge cases to make sure that links between topics are correctly imported
* Customized image alignment didn't always work using the default HTML template
* Multiple enhancements to license management system: improved network card detection; better proxy support; optimizations and fixes
* Enhanced speed of the CHM importer
* Improved table saving in RTF documents
* Topic properties panel's size, position and visibility didn't always behave correctly
* Optimized find / replace action which is now faster when replacing multiple instances in the same topics
* Enhanced HTML import: paragraphs with IDs will automatically create anchors

V6.7.0.479 - January 28, 2020

+ Automatic generation of customizable YouTube and Vimeo embed codes when entering a video URL of those services
+ Documentation generation dialog now warns before starting generation if the output directory doesn't exist or isn't writable
* Report template editor's table of contents preview and editor could display page size in the next line instead of same line as title
* Project analyzer always reported zero words count
* Project analyzer print preview and PDF export was not fully translated to German / French / Spanish
* Word document page size was not correct when exported on a high DPI screen
* When pictures were too large to fit in the PDF document, they were not correctly resized on high DPI screens
* PDF generation is more consistent when generated on different DPI screens
* Table of contents pages could be displayed on the next line for PDF documents generated on high DPI screens
* Enhanced Word document's table of contents page number estimation
* Adding a right indent to table of contents entries displayed the page number on the next line in PDF documents
* Right indent in table of contents entries was discarded in generated Word documentation
* Improved CHM importer: links to HTML files placed in sub-folders were not correctly imported
* Picture width and height ribbon fields were not always correctly updated when pictures were resized

V6.6.0.444 - December 13, 2019

+ Topic editor zoom control: Zoom the topic editor from 10% up to 500% using either the zoom slider or keyboard shortcuts
+ Project analyzer reports can now be printed, or exported to PDF or Excel files
+ Added the ability to quickly run a script from the main window: click the popup from the script editor button and choose the script to run
+ The snippet editor and templates' cover page editors can now optionally show hidden characters
+ Locating a library item from the project analyzer will now select it within the topic editor
* Enhanced High DPI support for the topic editor: pictures were not always correctly displayed + various drawing enhancements in various DPI settings
* Improved HTML and RTF importers
* Improved robustness, speed and security of HND project files
* Improved clarity of "General information" tab in the project analyzer
* Anchors could produce extra spacing when exported to HTML documentation formats
* The code generator incorrectly mentioned that it added banners to the generated output

V6.5.0.399 - October 29, 2019

+ Updated application look and feel with Microsoft Office 2019 inspired appearance
+ New ribbon search field: enter a command to find it and execute it
+ Template editor can now be used to create and edit HTML tags for HTML based templates
+ HelpNDoc will now warn in the build output if a documentation format is generated with banners
+ Project analyzer now reports the number of snippets and image maps used within the project's content
+ Project analyzer window now appears on the task bar and doesn't stay on top anymore
+ WinHelp importer now correctly imports WMF images too
+ It is now possible to select multiple hyperlinks in the project analyzer window for copy/paste purposes: use double-click to locate an hyperlink instead of single-click
* When multiple document library items were placed on a topic, some of them could be replaced by the file name instead of the file content
* Work-around to some Windows systems incorrectly reporting mime types for common file extensions, making the built-in web-server sometimes return incorrect mime types in response headers
* Removing the styles gallery from the quick access toolbar could result in an exception
* Caption and icons of the styles gallery were empty when added to the quick access toolbar
* Updated some vendors libraries in default HTML template to fix security issues and web-browser bugs
* Removed the FastClick mobile library from the default HTML template as it wasn't needed anymore on most mobile devices and could cause problems with some web-browsers
* Improved WinHelp importer compatibility: some HLP files only imported pictures and not content
* Better hyperlink import in WinHelp files: some hyperlinks were not imported as they were using specific unhandled formats
* Using the Right-Alt + x keyboard shortcut on a Polish keyboard did replace the previous character with a numeric value
* CTRL + Clicking on a link to an anchor in the topic editor didn't work when the anchor was placed in a table

V6.4.1.367 - September 25, 2019

* An exception error message could be shown when adding a topic to the table of contents
* Word and PDF generation could fail if templates included variables in cover pages, headers or footers

V6.4.0.357 - September 17, 2019

+ The "script" command line can be used to run a script using the HelpNDoc API to automate project creation or modification
+ The single page HTML template can now optionally generate a table of contents, making it more versatile as an off-line template
+ Project name is now displayed in the Windows task-bar to rapidly identify multiple running instances of HelpNDoc
+ HTML based templates can be customized to generate different HTML code (HTML Tags) based on the movie extension. See documentation to learn more
* Snippets or documents library items placed within table could not always be replaced at generation time
* Updated the generated movie tags to use the latest HTML 5 specification (except for CHM help files)
* Producing much smaller CHM files when using movies: movies are not included anymore as they can't be played from within CHM files
* Qt Help generation could fail when the project title contained the "&" character and no custom namespaces were provided
* Qt Help generation could fail when about or application icons were not used in any topics
* Better WinHelp HLP file import: file with file names longer than 8.3 couldn't be imported
* Enhanced WinHelp Index/Keywords importer: keywords hierarchy wasn't always correctly imported when a custom index separator was used
* A "List Index Out Of Bounds" exception could be raised when replacing library items under rare circumstances
* Faster generation for all documentation formats when using snippets or documents library items
* Various enhancements in the named and floating licensing systems

V6.3.0.298 - July 24, 2019

+ External file pictures are now drawn in the topic editor
+ For HTML based documentation formats, it is now possible to optionally clean the output directory before generating documentation: select build settings to never clean, always clean, or ask before cleaning
+ Library items now display an icon overlay when they are imported from a file at generation time, or an URL at viewing time
+ The hyperlink analyzer now selects the full hyperlink in the topic editor when an item is selected, making it easier to spot problematic hyperlinks
* Imported documents now correctly import anchors to that document
* Imported split documents now correctly re-create hyperlinks to other topics from anchors in that document
* Copying topic content between two instances of HelpNDoc didn't correctly copy images
* Unicode characters having codes greater than $FFFF (E.g. symbols, emoticons...) were not correctly exported to HTML based documentation formats
* After importing a CHM help files, anchors could be broken when exported to another documentation format
* An error message is now displayed when trying to install a dictionary in a location which cannot be written to
* Editing a script in the template editor didn't warn when closed without saving
* Improved speed and memory usage when generating all HTML based documentation formats (CHM, HTML, ePub, Kindle and Qt Help) for projects using at least one picture library item
* Optimized topic loading speed when they contain tables

V6.2.0.255 - June 11, 2019

+ Topics can now have aliases: the HTML documentation will automatically generate URLs for those aliases
+ Using the default HTML template, it is now possible to link to a specific context number: the URL format is /context/HELP_CONTEXT.html
+ The logo of the default HTML template can now optionally be defined as a URL instead of a library item
+ Security feature: template scripts cannot write anywhere on disk anymore
* Fixed input fields behavior in image map editor: updating title before link cleared the title and better size and position editing
* The list of image map shapes was corrupted when one or more of them were deleted
* Color icons (font and paragraph background) were not correctly drawn on High DPI screens
* The HndTopicsMeta API object wasn't available to scripts and templates
* The CTRL-SPACE keyboard shortcut didn't work within tables in the topic editor
* The script custom path defined in options wasn't correctly saved / retrieved when the application was closed
* In some cases, variable substitution could mess up the text layout in the generated documentation

V6.1.0.206 - April 23, 2019

+ Define default topic properties in the project options, and new topics are automatically created using those properties
+ HTML code library items can now be external and therefore loaded from disk at generation time
+ It is now possible to export all the items contained in a library item folder to disk
+ Added script to bulk edit the status of all topics in the currently opened documentation project
+ Qt's assistant.exe program is now run to show the generated Qt Help file when clicking "Open file" after generation is complete
+ Updated all spelling dictionaries to their latest versions
* It wasn't possible to edit the Spanish name and description of variables in the template editor
* For English spell checkers, the live spell checker will now treat straight and curly apostrophes similarly: both "don't" and "don't" will be treated as correct
* Topics without content were showing "not found" errors for Qt Help files
* Optimized HTML generation which should generally result in fastest build times
* Word / RTF documents import or paste could produce an exception
* In rare conditions, generated Word DocX files could be corrupted
* In CHM help files, links to files didn't show the "hand" cursor
- HelpNDoc is not tested on Windows Vista anymore: Microsoft dropped support for Windows Vista on April, 2017


V6.0.1.167 - March 20, 2019

* Changing some topic properties such as topic kind, header or footer didn't update the user interface
* When more than 64 tags were defined for a project, showing the "Insert / Edit condition" dialog did show an error message
* When a new version is available, the RSS feed now links to the "check update" URL instead of download URL for better information about what's new
* The HndStatus object was not accessible from scripts
* HndStatus.GetStatusByCaption wasn't documented in the scripting API help page

V6.0.0.154 - March 7, 2019

+ HelpNDoc and its web-site have been translated to Spanish. It now supports: English, French, German and Spanish
+ Each topic can now have an optional description which is exported to HTML's description meta tag for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
+ Topics can now have status and it is possible to perform conditional generation based on topic status
+ Topics can now have custom properties which can be useful for advanced scripts and templates purposes
+ The "Find and replace" dialog can now search using regular expressions or library items
+ Lengthy search operations (searching the whole project) can now be aborted in the "Find and replace" dialog
+ Most lists and grids now include a find panel to rapidly search for items. It can be opened by hitting the CTRL+F keyboard shortcut for supported lists (e.g. toc, library, keywords...)
+ Enhanced support for screen readers in the topic editor
+ Better Per Monitor DPI awareness in various dialogs
+ Redesigned insert symbol dialog: supports for all Unicode characters, character groups and categories, hexadecimal character support, select font with same character...
+ Faster and more secure data access to HND project file
+ Project analyzer now contains actions to rapidly delete all selected keywords
* Image maps are now responsive in the default HTML template: whenever the image size is updated, the interactive areas will be updated too
* An "Invalid caret position" exception could occur when importing Word, text or HTML files
* Better import of RTF tables
* Enhanced HTML importer
* Find and replace can now find content in text with multiple styles
* Reworked the scrollbars as it wasn't always easy to select the last item when using the "Automatically hide scroll bars" option
* Deleting library items will now delete all selected items
* Topics and builds using custom tags larger than 32 characters were not correctly saved to the project file
* Overall speed improvements in the topic editor regarding to Unicode processing
* Icons where not always visible in Ribbon groups when the main window's size was small
* Default output file name now removes invalid character in project title to avoid generation failure
* Updated vendor libraries used in default HTML template to remove any known vulnerabilities
* Enhanced internal / external URL parsing in default HTML template
* Updated default HTML template to avoid deprecated method calls which will be removed in future versions of Google Chrome
* Resized pictures in HelpNDoc's topic editor could appear distorted using the default HTML template
* Updating the page numbers in a generated Word document's table of contents produced "Error!! Bookmark not defined." for topics with dashes in their Help Id
* Enhanced WinHelp HLP importer: some pictures were not correctly imported
* Read-only HND project files could be opened but never saved: HelpNDoc won't open read-only project files anymore
* Default topic override list in generation dialog could have an invalid topic selected
* Updated and vastly improved documentation for API methods available to templates and scripts

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7. Obtaining technical support
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Website: https://www.helpndoc.com
E-Mail: support@helpndoc.com

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8. Join us on social networks
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helpndoc
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/helpndoc
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helpndoc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HelpNDoc
RSS Feed: https://www.helpndoc.com/index.xml

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