Import Projects, Organize Topics Faster, Export AI-Friendly Markdown, Style Images with IDs & Classes, and more in HelpNDoc 10.0

We are thrilled to announce the release of HelpNDoc 10.0, a major milestone in the evolution of our help authoring tool. Packed with powerful new features, smarter workflows, and important fixes, this version is designed to make technical writing faster, more flexible, and more reliable than ever. From a brand-new project importer to improved Markdown compatibility, enhanced equation and image handling, and a host of stability and performance upgrades, HelpNDoc 10.0 is here to redefine your documentation experience.
As always, HelpNDoc is free for personal use and evaluation, so now is the perfect time to download HelpNDoc 10.0 and see what’s new.

📥 Smarter Project Reuse: Introducing the New Project Importer

HelpNDoc 10.0 introduces a brand-new project importer that gives technical writers precise control over how they reuse and consolidate content across multiple projects.

With this powerful new tool, you no longer have to copy everything from one project into another. Instead, the importer lets you selectively bring in topics, library items, and keywords. For topics, you can decide exactly which sections to import and how their formatting should be handled, either by keeping original styles or adapting them to the current project’s styles for consistent presentation. When importing library items, you can choose entire sets (such as pictures, barcodes, or variables…), or limit the process to only those items actually referenced by your selected topics. The same flexibility applies to keywords: Import them all or just the ones directly linked to your chosen topics.

This level of control has clear benefits for technical writers. When you’re merging multiple manuals into a single comprehensive guide, you can import only the necessary pieces while maintaining a clean, consistent structure. When starting a new project, you can quickly reuse standard snippets, variables, or company-approved media items without cluttering your workspace with unnecessary content. The importer also makes it easy to migrate legacy documentation into modern templates, eliminating the need to manually copy and adjust every section.

By eliminating duplication and reducing manual cleanup, the new importer helps ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency across documentation projects. It transforms HelpNDoc 10.0 into not only a powerful authoring environment but also a practical tool for managing and reusing knowledge at scale.

📝 Markdown First: Copy, Paste, and Export Like a Pro

Markdown workflows are now fully supported in HelpNDoc 10.0, making it a valuable asset for modern documentation pipelines.

HelpNDoc 10.0 also takes a big step forward in supporting modern documentation workflows with an all-new Markdown template. This template generates complete, single-page Markdown files that go beyond plain text by including optional AI-friendly metadata. Project details such as the author, version, and language are embedded alongside topic-specific information like IDs, captions, and context identifiers, making the output especially valuable for integration with AI-powered tools and automated pipelines. This structured context allows AI systems to more easily index and understand the exported Markdown, enabling them to deliver more accurate answers when asked about your documentation. It also helps AI assistants generate better suggestions, summaries, and translations, since they can use the extra metadata to correctly interpret the content.

Additionally, working with Markdown day-to-day is now easier than ever. You can copy and paste topic content directly as Markdown, instantly converting HelpNDoc’s structured formatting into a syntax that works well with external editors. The snippet editor has also been enhanced with new sub-menus that let you copy or paste content as plain text or Markdown with just a couple of clicks. These improvements make it seamless to use HelpNDoc alongside GitHub, wikis, static site generators, and a wide range of developer-friendly workflows, ensuring that your documentation fits smoothly into any publishing ecosystem.

🖥️ Next-Generation HTML Documentation with Bootstrap 5

HelpNDoc 10.0 delivers significant enhancement to its HTML generation capabilities, rendering your documentation faster, safer, and more future-proof.

At the heart of this improvement is the brand-new default HTML template, which is built on the latest vendor libraries and powered by Bootstrap 5. Combined with updated HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript foundations, this modernization ensures that generated documentation performs smoothly across all current browsers and eliminates vulnerabilities tied to outdated libraries. By dropping support for legacy browsers, the template is lighter, more secure, and far easier to maintain. This gives writers confidence that their output will remain compatible for years to come.

This update also extends to how images are handled in HTML-based documentation. Pictures can now be assigned IDs and class names that are preserved in the exported code, giving developers precise hooks for custom styling or interactivity. The image editor has also been refined to save edits in the original file format, avoiding unnecessary conversions and reducing the risk of corruption. Together, these changes make HelpNDoc’s HTML output more flexible for customization and more reliable in production environments.

With HelpNDoc 10.0, generating HTML documentation is no longer just about delivering content: it’s about producing a secure, modern, and extensible foundation that can be styled, scripted, and scaled to match the needs of today’s technical communication.

⚡ Faster Organization and Smarter Authoring Tools

HelpNDoc 10.0 introduces practical new enhancements that make it easier to organize large projects and write technical content with precision.

The table of contents now supports multi-topic selection, so you can move, reorder, or delete groups of topics with a single action. This dramatically speeds up organizing complex projects, enabling technical writers to restructure documentation more efficiently while maintaining a clear and consistent content hierarchy.

At the same time, the equation editor has been refined with a new Insert menu that provides quick access to common symbols, calculus operators, and complex number functions. Combined with recent rendering improvements, it is now faster and more reliable to create professional mathematical content without errors or formatting issues.

These updates reduce repetitive tasks and give authors more control, making HelpNDoc 10.0 a smoother, more productive environment for producing high-quality documentation.

🛠️ Stability, Performance, and Fixes

Beyond new features, HelpNDoc 10.0 delivers major improvements in performance, reliability, and compatibility.

Opening large projects with many library items is now significantly faster. The ePub generator has been overhauled to pass stricter validation checks, and SVG loading is now quicker and more robust. The application is also more stable thanks to better handling of project files, registry edge cases, and startup errors. Window management and taskbar behaviors have been corrected to ensure smoother integration with modern Windows features. This release includes numerous other fixes, from improved equation rendering to safer image editing, making HelpNDoc more reliable than ever.

🚀 Download HelpNDoc 10.0 Today!

HelpNDoc 10.0 is available for free for personal use and evaluation purposes: try it now!

Whether you’re reusing content with the new project importer, embracing Markdown-first workflows, or benefiting from faster, more reliable exports, HelpNDoc 10.0 is packed with features that will save you time, improve content quality, and future-proof your documentation process.
👉 Download HelpNDoc 10.0 today and experience the next generation of help authoring.

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