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Version 3.3.0.123 - Jan 12th, 2012
  • New "Paste as text" and "Paste special" commands for finer paste control
  • New template to export HTML documentation based on JQuery mobile
  • Pictures pasted or imported as part of a document are now automatically compressed before being saved to the HND project file
  • Reintroduced the extended table of contents feature
  • New visual identification about panel docking similar to Visual Studio
  • Opening project files containing a single quote displayed a SafeCall error
  • F1 shortcut didn't display the help file
  • Expand and compact shortcut keys only worked from the numerical keyboard
  • An error could sometimes happen when CTRL+Clicking on hyperlinks
  • Restored windows' height on launch was always smaller than when closed
  • Text contained in tables couldn't be added as keywords
  • Regression as the Brazilian dictionary couldn't be installed anymore
  • Cleaned-up keyboard shortcuts for Ribbon items in accordance to MS Word
  • Default HTML template did show an error with keywords containing quotes
  • Using the insert table popup from the quick access toolbar displayed an error message
Version 3.2.0.65 - Nov 8th, 2011
  • Reintroduced the CHM purge option: uncheck the "Keep temporary files" to remove any temporary file or directory generated by the CHM template
  • Template inheritance support: specify the parent template and only override the specified files
  • A table of contents with page numbers can be generated at the top of Word and PDF documentation formats
  • Reintroduced the "Add as keyword" context menu item in the topic editor
  • Currently selected text is used as default caption when adding a keyword
  • Use CTRL+Click in the topic editor to follow an hyperlink
  • HTML documentation can now display the index or search tabs by default by adding the #_index or #_search tag at the end of the documentation URL
  • HTML template was not correctly mentioning the UTF-8 charset in the head section
  • iPhone template had some issues with topic titles
  • Selecting an output path for the generated documentation didn't default to the currently specified one
  • An error happened when activating the Turkish dictionary
  • The progress bar didn't show on lengthy project find/replace operations
  • The horizontal scrollbar was shown in the topic editor for no reason on small screens
  • Topic editor's popup menu now correctly displays spelling errors first using a bold font and cut/copy/paste last to mimic Word's behavior
  • Provide a link to Microsoft HTML Help Workshop when not installed
  • Find/Replace within the project is more reliable
  • Some pictures could fail optimization when generating CHM and HTML and block subsequent content from begin generated
  • Better handling of project related errors while opening/closing/saving
Version 3.1.0.23 - Sep 26th, 2011
  • Added the vacuum command in project options to clean the project and gain some file weight from deleted items
  • New table functionalities: split table, sort table rows and convert table to text
  • Option to automatically compress uncompressed pictures included in the library to generate smaller documentation files
  • Links to e-mail address containing a dot were considered as links to Internet addresses when edited
  • Paragraph border action wasn't available anymore
  • In some rare cases due to Windows user name, HelpNDoc could show an error when launched and stop after that
  • Hungarian letters with double acute were not generated correctly in CHM
  • Underline font style property was not correctly saved
  • V2 projects with big context numbers could not be imported
  • Slash shortcut "/" is reintroduced to recursively collapse all children
  • Performance improvements when getting the list of anchors in the topic link dialog
  • Listed anchors in the topic link dialog didn't include anchors in table cells
  • Changing the background color of the paragraph did reset some other attributes such as alignment
  • Locating a search result didn't select it in the topic editor if it was not in the currently edited topic
  • Pasting or dropping an image into the topic editor could generate file names without a valid extension
  • Table background pictures were not displayed in HTML based documentation
  • Under some conditions the styles applied in topic editor was not correctly saved and restored
  • Renaming a topic with non ASCII characters could generate an empty Help ID
  • OpenOffice.org's Brazilian Portuguese dictionaries couldn't be installed
Version 3.0.2.24 - Sep 6th, 2011
  • Command line option is back with the possibility to specify template names
  • Topic editor ruler has been restored. Visibility is controlled in options and is hidden by default
  • Performance improvement when using and scrolling through the table of contents hierarchy
  • Configuration options were saved even when the cancel button was clicked
  • CHM and HTML documentation could show an horizontal scroll bar with 100% tables
  • Padding wasn't always respected in table cells
  • Topic title variables were not correctly substituted
  • Documentation now contains the list and description of available methods from within templates
Version 3.0.1.14 - Aug 30th, 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
  • Opening the link dialog for large projects could cause heavy memory usage
  • External library items file are now relative to the project's location if a relative path is specified
  • Directly calling an HTML page with an anchor didn't work
  • Topic with content from an external file had no content in HTML and CHM
  • After opening an existing project, the topic footer was not generated anymore
Version 3.0.0.223 - Aug 23rd, 2011
  • Initial release of HelpNDoc 3.0
Version 2.9.0.144 - Nov 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
Version 2.8.0.53 - Sep 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
Version 2.7.0.18 - Aug 6th, 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
Version 2.6.1.9 - Jul 2nd, 2010
  • The Word documentation generator could create corrupted files in some cases