What’s new

Version 8.4.0.372 – Release date: Jan 17, 2023 – Download

• New HTTP request build action: perform GET and POST requests to any URL before or after a specific documentation build
• Project analyzer can now merge multiple selected keywords into one keyword: all previously associated topics will be associated with the new keyword
• Every build action property now has a description to explain its use
• File and path related build action properties now have a button to open the standard file and folder selection dialogs
• Redesigned the anchor insertion / edition window to make it easier to operate and more reliable: it provides live validation and rethought clearer modern UI
• Qt generator now warns if an extension other than *.qhc is used for the output file name as it could cause generation errors with the Qt help generator
• Default topic's build override is now easier and faster to select as it displays the full topic hierarchy and an enhanced selection dialog
• Improved Word importer which could create broken hyperlinks and can now handle mixed-case bookmarks
• Build action properties' names and description are now clearer and localized to all languages supported by HelpNDoc
• Live spell checker is not activated on build action properties where that doesn't make sense (e.g. script content, path selection...)
• It wasn't possible to toggle the activation status of build actions for languages other than English
• Adding a duplicate anchor in a topic now asks for confirmation before deleting the previous one
• Anchor manager's window could be incorrectly displayed with empty on some display resolutions and settings
• Improved accessibility of default HTML template by adding multiple missing ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes
• When the default topic was deleted, it could be difficult to select another one from the project options panel
• Greatly improved documentation generation dialog opening time for medium and large projects
• Some parts of the user interface incorrectly referred to bookmarks instead of anchors

Version 8.3.1.337 – Release date: Dec 13, 2022 – Download

• Table borders and background colors could be incorrectly exported to HTML based documentation formats

Version 8.3.0.331 – Release date: Dec 8, 2022 – Download

• Mass update and delete hyperlinks from project analyzer: select hyperlinks in list and assign new target or clear them altogether
• Find and replace dialog can now search for hyperlinks based on various conditions such as kind of hyperlink, target, extra parameters...
• New filter for keywords: show only keywords which are associated with the current topic
• Project analyzer now reports hyperlinks' and anchors' location in snippets and can open the snippet editor to their correct position
• Keywords panel now has an optional toolbar for quick access to basic and advanced keywords actions
• Greatly reduced CHM and HTML based generation time for medium and larger projects which could increase exponentially
• Word/PDF custom templates could produce broken documents with inconsistent cover pages and styles, content highlighted in red...
• PDF footers could be displayed at the wrong position
• Improved RTF loading: possible access violation when importing pictures, better headings import, improved headers and footers import
• Improved DocX loading for tables which were linked to a table style
• The find and replace dialog could miss some results if they were the first one in the topic
• Hyperlink dialog could display fields in wrong order and incorrectly draw panels backgrounds
• Adding or renaming a keyword could cause the following exception error message: "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window"
• API method HndUI.EditSnippetContent wasn't accessible from the script engine
• Removed option to use external importer for the DocX format: it was slower, less reliable and 32-bit only
• Readme text file contained some outdated links to external tools and compilers

Version 8.2.0.286 – Release date: Oct 25, 2022 – Download

• It is now possible to define pre-build actions, which are similar to post-build actions but run before the generation process
• New build action: Run an external program and check its return code
• Completely redesigned the auto-completion dialog, with the ability to switch completion modes, clearer user interface with icons, additional keyboard shortcuts
• Entering a sharp character (#) in the topic editor, followed by the CTRL-SPACE keyboard shortcut, will list all anchors in the current topic for fast hyperlink creation
• Redesigned the default topic selection in the project option panel: now using a full tree for faster and more accurate selection of the default topic
• New API method HndTopicsEx.GetTopicCaptionHierarchy to get the hierarchy of caption for a specific topic
• Default HTML template improvement: search field is focused and selected when the search tab is clicked
• Added menu items to access the last generated for each documentation format: paths are stored within the HND project file for quick usage without re-generation next time the project is opened
• Script editor now includes a "Save as" button to save the currently edited script as a new file
• Split Word DocX document is now correctly and fully imported when there is nothing to split
• Split Word DocX document now correctly imports the first content, appearing before the first split item
• When a Word document containing empty titles was split, its imported content could be placed in the wrong topics or discarded altogether
• Improved default HTML template's Search Engine Optimization (SEO): URL topics now display a link to their URL when they appear in the breadcrumb
• The template editor allowed templates to be renamed using default template names, causing confusion and problems with template selection
• Selecting a default topic with a duplicate caption could use the wrong topic as the default one
• Some project options fields' modifications were discarded when the project was saved if the control didn't lose focus first
• Optimized project options window which is now much faster to display, particularly on large projects
• The HndTopics.CreateMultipleTopics API created topics at the same level as the parent topic instead of as its children
• Slightly improved program startup time

Version 8.1.1.247 – Release date: Sep 16, 2022 – Download

• HelpNDoc could display an error about missing DLLs in some languages
• Floating license key checks could return an invalid key error when it was in fact valid

Version 8.1.0.243 – Release date: Sep 13, 2022 – Download

• New post-build actions: run specific actions after the build process. First actions included: Show message and Run script
• It is now possible to select a snippet as the default content of a newly created topic in the project's automated settings
• New option to display smaller library items. When activated, non resizable items such as documents, snippets and HTML code are drawn smaller in the topic editor
• Use the CTRL keyboard shortcut while applying style to reset any overrides applied to the selected content
• Last edited template is now stored for each projects so that it is the default one selected next time the template editor is opened
• Topic editor's right click popup menu now includes "Paste as text" and "Paste special" sub-menu for quicker access to those actions
• Topic modification date and time is now correctly updated when the topic content changes
• Greatly improved code editor which is now faster to draw content and scroll, and includes multiple bug fixes and enhancements
• An exception could be raised when decrypting content with an invalid password
• Exporting a library item to an existing file now displays a confirmation message to avoid data loss
• Improved script execution engine for faster and more reliable execution, and additional pascal-based language support
• Unneeded files removed from the installer to make it slightly smaller
• Improved some syntax highlighters to improve the supported language elements
• Script editor popup now display user scripts before system scripts as they are more likely to be used more often
• Improved HND project file handling: faster comparison for binary data, performance improvements, bug and security fixes
• User interface refinements, fixes and improvements for Windows 11 and high DPI screens
• Debug engine has been improved and strengthened for easier and faster bug spotting and resolution

Version 8.0.0.187 – Release date: Jul 19, 2022 – Download

• New Ultimate Edition of HelpNDoc: includes all features available
• HelpNDoc is now a 64-bit software: It has access to more system memory, is more resilient and faster to operate
• Added the ability to override any style for each specific build
• Generated Word documents can be encrypted with a custom password and strong encryption algorithms
• Generated Word and PDF documents can be signed using an invisible digital signature to insure their integrity
• New strong encryption algorithms for PDF documents: RC4 40 bits, RC4 128 bits, AES 128 bits, AES 256 bits and AES 256 bits with hardened key generation
• Added support for SVG images in both the editor, and supported documentation formats
• Secrets such as passwords are now securely stored in HND project files using a strong encryption algorithm
• New API methods to store any number of secrets securely in HND project files
• When pasting content with library items into a snippet, problematic content will be converted and removed and the user warned about it
• New TStringList.WriteBOM property to control if BOM is written when saved to file
• Documentation generation dialog can now be maximized
• Faster, more reliable, more memory efficient and more secure HND project file handling library
• Script editor dialog now has keyboard shortcuts for its main actions
• Improved application startup time
• Improved overall application responsiveness
• Project analyzer incorrectly reported some library items as being used by a ghost topic after they have been pasted into snippets
• Windows positioning is more reliable and precise across sessions and different screen resolutions
• Recent versions of Qt assistant didn't always show the vertical scroll bar when showing topics content which didn't fit the visible area
• Some versions of Qt assistant displayed a black header for each topic instead of the defined base color
• Images are now responsive in the Qt help documentation format: they will resize to fit the visible screen area
• Improved table borders drawing in PDF documents
• Dropping a topic over the root project topic could cause an error message
• Default HTML template now correctly uses the template's defined default extension, making it easier to generate extensions such as HTM, PHP...
• Default HTML template will now use the correct file extension for the specified logo file instead of forcing the PNG file extension
• HTML search engine now correctly uses the template's defined default extension to avoid generating broken links
• Better HTML export of paragraphs with borders and hanging first
• Various improvements in RTF importer for East Asian texts
• Faster and more reliable script and template execution
• Importing some WinHelp HLP file could produce corrupted topics: editing those topics resulted in an error message
• Find and replace operations for the whole project have been optimized and are now faster
• Table of contents string was hard-coded in the default Markdown template: it can now be translated
• Using HndGeneratorInfo.TemplateInfo in templates caused an error
• Improved panels docking behavior on screens with different DPI settings
• Transform text popup menu could stay visible even when another control was focused
• HelpNDoc is not tested on Windows 7 anymore: Microsoft dropped extended support for Windows 7 on January, 2020

Version 7.9.1.631 – Release date: Feb 8, 2022 – Download

• After deleting library items from the project analyzer, the number of successfully and unsuccessfully deleted items are shown
• After deleting library items from the project analyzer, user is asked if the analyzer should be refreshed
• Updating pictures' default properties when they are placed within tables could fail
• Pasting content in the topic editor could move the edit cursor at the beginning of the topic editor and back
• Refreshing the project analyzer after deleting library items could report incorrect data in the library items' analyzer
• Deleting multiple versions of the same library items from the project analyzer incorrectly displayed an error message
• Possible exception under some rare circumstances when deleting a bullet or a numbered item in a table cell
• Improved speed when pasting large content with pictures in topic editor

Version 7.9.0.612 – Release date: Jan 19, 2022

• Added the ability to apply the default picture properties of a library item to all instances throughout the project
• New font selector with list of recently used fonts, font preview and font searching support
• Recently used fonts are saved within the HND project file and restored next time it is opened
• Hyperlinks to document's headings are now correctly imported when importing Microsoft Word DocX or RTF document
• Inserting a YouTube URL without the embed parameter in the library items editor warns and optionally converts the URL to the correct format
• New option to automatically close the script editor when script is successfully run
• Image, image maps and movies default properties can be reset from the library items editor
• New API to get a list of library items used in a specific editor
• New script to list all library items used in the currently selected topic
• Added right-click popup menu to script editor
• Added new popup menu to reset picture properties and size based on original picture, overriding library item's defaults
• Topic editor content converted to snippet could create corrupted snippets which were not always correctly replaced at generation time
• Resetting the currently selected picture's properties or size now uses the library item's default values
• Resetting the currently selected picture's properties could leave the old values in the ribbon bar editors
• Dragging a library item over the topic editor could cause an exception
• Dropping a library item within a table cell could fail without warning
• When changing the font style of some library items such as variables and counters in the topic editor, the rest of the paragraph could be incorrectly drawn with that style
• Updating styles is now more easily accessible: added button in ribbon bar, and entry in command finder
• Removed warning from the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop compiler when a topic's kind was set to empty
• Optimized drag and drop operations from the library items panel
• Improved paragraph border importing for DocX documents
• Improved Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) support for enhanced screen reader / narrator experience

Version 7.8.0.569 – Release date: Dec 7, 2021

• Documents, HTML, variables and snippets library items can now be inserted within the current topic as raw content (e.g. not linked to the item) which can be used to create topic templates...
• Selected content in topic editor can be converted to snippet using the right click popup menu
• New editor APIs to insert HTML content, move the cursor, check if editor is empty
• New user interface APIs to iterate over selected items in trees (keywords, library items, topics), and cancel current edits
• New link formats to create hyperlinks to specific topics, navigation or counters when importing external documents (e.g. HTML, Word...)
• Splitting an imported Word document could miss some empty topics, or create a corrupted table of contents
• HTML importer now correctly uses the project's default font and hyperlinks settings to import HTML content
• Importing a document into the current topic now correctly handles anchor hyperlinks to itself
• Importing a document which was locked by another application failed silently: an error message is now shown
• Images placed in table cells could be incorrectly resized in Word and PDF documentation formats
• All APIs calling MoveTopics (such as CreateMultipleTopics) could produce a table of contents with multiple project topics
• Right clicking on some items in the project analyzer could result to an access violation error
• Changing a table's background color using the "More Colors" dialog could set the color's opacity to 0%
• Syntax editor's gutter font size option didn't use the proper editor
• Better Windows 11 detection
• Improved the MacOS version of the floating license server which could sometimes result in a false-positive transport security errors

Version 7.7.0.519 – Release date: Oct 19, 2021

• Official Windows 11 support
• The script editor now includes find/replace actions
• New script editor customization options: change font, indentation, gutter visibility and content, spacing, special chars, word wrap...
• Default HTML template's search engine can now be configured to specify the minimum number of letters of words to index: it makes it possible to index smaller one or two letter words
• New command line options to open a project at a specific topic, using either its Help ID or its Help Context
• Added scripting API methods to find a topic with a specific help context number, and set the currently shown topic via its Help ID or Help Context
• The script editor now uses the Consolas font (when available) for more comfortably reading of extended text on screen
• It is now possible to specify the inline table of contents' width in the default HTML template's settings
• Script editor wasn't always able to build template scripts which contained a mix of code and HTML content
• Pasting content into the topic editor could move the cursor at the top of the topic instead of after the pasted content
• Tags with names longer than 32 characters were not correctly assigned to topics or builds
• Built-in HTTP web server couldn't start anymore when the port was already in use by another local server, even if the port was changed
• Word and PDF documents generated without a cover but with a table of contents didn't add a page break before the first topic's title
• The Default CHM template produced broken links in breadcrumbs when a parent topic was marked as an empty topic
• Generate documentation dialog incorrectly warned that output path didn't exist for relative paths
• Script editor's word wrap icon could be drawn with a solid green background
• The default HTML template didn't display any horizontal lines when printed
• Start menu shortcut included a reference to HelpNDoc's uninstaller for the wrong version

Version 7.6.0.479 – Release date: Sep 9, 2021

• New "Conditions" analyzer will now list all conditions used throughout the project with the ability to locate them and filter by operation
• Completely redesigned the project analyzer window for easier and faster navigation and operations, clearer reports and enhanced accessibility
• HelpNDoc now downloads and imports pictures from content pasted from a web-browser
• Dropping a file within a folder of the library panel will automatically select that folder in the library item import dialog
• Library item import dialog now remembers which folder was selected last time it imported a file
• Project analyzer now reports the number of conditions used within the project's topics
• Topic editor now keeps showing the selected content grayed out when a dialog is shown
• The topic editor does not loose its focus after a dialog is closed anymore
• Resized images could be displayed outside of the PDF document's bounds if screen scaling was set to 150% or more
• Default HTML template now displays a sorted list of topics related to the select keyword
• Fixed DocX import when multiple documents with numbering were placed on the same topic: numbering could start with an incorrect number
• Choosing a custom color could result in a black or gray color when the color dialog was closed
• Selecting a custom color for font, paragraph or picture could remove the focus from the topic editor
• Wait status form used during lengthy operations is not displayed over other applications anymore
• Completely rewritten form position saving/loading logic to make it more robust on multi-resolution screens and frequent screen configuration changes
• Improved speed of the library item import dialog when multiple files where imported at the same time
• Improved drawing of library items in topic editor: speed optimization and fixed textual content which could be incorrectly or partially drawn

Version 7.5.0.435 – Release date: Jul 27, 2021

• HTML based templates can now implement hooks to generate custom Help Ids (and therefore file names) for better SEO
• CHM importer can now import keywords and associate them with the correct topics
• Keywords and topics association dialog can now be filtered to only show associated topics
• New color picker dialog: ability to edit hexadecimal value, modern look and feed, better integration with HelpNDoc's user interface
• New HndUtils.UrlEncode and HndUtils.UrlDecode API methods to (en)code URLs
• New HndUtils.IdnEncode and HndUtils.IdnDecode API methods to (en)code international domain names using using punycode
• It is now possible to add a misspelled word to the dictionary from the project analyzer's spelling tab
• Script editor window now appears on the task bar and is not displayed over other programs anymore
• Added option to define if syntax highlighter will automatically convert paragraph to line breaks
• Under certain conditions, resized images could be distorted in Word and PDF documents
• Floating images were not correctly resized in Word and PDF documentation formats
• Moved various utility methods to the HndUtils API object and properly documented them in the API documentation
• Improved built-in CHM decompiler: enhanced compatibility with more CHM files and removed memory leaks
• Adding a topic and immediately add another topic before/after could raise an exception
• Script API TStringList.SaveToFile could produce bogus characters: it now produces UTF-8 encoded files
• Counters with caption with specific characters (e.g. some German letters or un-escaped XML characters) could produce corrupted Word documents
• A corrupted registry settings could crash the application at startup
• The syntax highlighter could change paragraph endings for the whole topic instead of the selection only
• The project analyzer window is not displayed over other programs anymore
• Optimized and strengthened HND project file loading/saving
• Security and speed enhancement in licensing libraries

Version 7.4.0.390 – Release date: Jun 15, 2021

• Optional "In this article" inline table of contents in the default HTML template
• New kind of hyperlink "counters": it is now possible to create a link to a specific counter's instance using its ID
• Ability to force image size generation for HTML based format to avoid content shifting and enhance Core Web Vitals
• Added the ability to specify a default font name and size for the syntax highlighter
• It is now also possible to define custom CSS style from HelpNDoc's user interface for the ePub, Kindle and Qt help file formats
• The SHIFT+TAB keyboard shortcut can now be used to decrease bullets indentation level
• Snippet editor and template cover editor windows can now be maximized to occupy the full screen
• Clicking a link to another topic in the default HTML template will scroll to that topic in the table of contents of the default HTML template
• Navigating through the web-browser's history will scroll to the proper topic in the table of contents of the default HTML template
• Default HTML template will now correctly hide the left panel if all tabs are hidden
• Default HTML template was shown when its width was set to 0 pixels
• Some panels could be randomly very large at application start, hiding any content in the main window
• Exception could be raised at startup if some settings were incorrect
• Improved syntax highlighter: faster highlighting, ability to undo the conversion of paragraphs to line breaks, do not convert tab to spaces anymore
• When "Show non printing characters" was enabled, some library items could display gibberish text in the topic editor
• Warn users that the Microsoft Word DocX format doesn't support distinct first page headers/footers and distinct even pages headers/footers to avoid confusion

Version 7.3.0.348 – Release date: May 4, 2021

• Markdown import support: HelpNDoc can import Markdown documents into a project, split them and import them at generation time using the "Document" library item
• Builds can now be duplicated from the generate documentation dialog: every build settings, associated status and tags are copied to the new build
• HTML based documentation formats and Markdown can now generate library items to a custom path
• New numbered list types: lower Greek letters and decimal with leading zero
• CTRL-Up/Down keyboard shortcuts now moves the cursor to the beginning of current, previous or next paragraph
• Snippets contained in the library could become huge which produced very large projects, and memory problems
• Snippets with broken images could produce a corrupted Word DocX document
• When deleting a topic, its keywords associations were not correctly deleted from projects which could lead to broken generated documentation
• Faster documentation generation for all formats for projects with a large number of snippets
• "Syntax highlighter" and "Paragraph to line breaks" functions could incorrectly convert the line before the selected content to a line break when it was a paragraph break
• When using "Syntax highlighter" and "Paragraph to line breaks" functions inside a table, paragraphs surrounding the table could be converted to line break
• Keywords associated with excluded topics could produce link errors in HTML-based documentation formats
• Project analyzer now correctly show keywords associated with deleted topics as "un-used"
• Improved readability of breadcrumbs arrows for small screens in generated HTML documentation: better mobile usability reports in Google Search Console
• Optimized generation of numbered lists in HTML based documentation formats
• Smaller and cleaner HND project file format: unused associated topic content is now properly deleted when a topic is deleted
• Performance and security enhancements in HND project file access

Version 7.2.0.306 – Release date: Mar 23, 2021

• New Markdown support: HelpNDoc can now generate Markdown versions of project topics which can customized via custom templates
• PDF topic titles will start on a new page when the next paragraph or image doesn't fit in the current page (aka. keep with next)
• It is now possible to force a topic to start on a new Word or PDF page from its topic properties
• Faster Word and PDF table of contents generation
• Improved default CHM template: it is now possible to specify an HTML footer for each topics in the template's settings
• Encrypted PDF document's description field (e.g. title, subject...) where broken and included random characters
• Enhanced PDF generation: topic titles could have big margins when space before and/or space after values were defined for the normal style
• Various fixes in the status editor: status movements could be buggy and status addition didn't always work as expected
• Template editor couldn't add new assets to a new template which was a duplicate of a template without any assets
• Slightly smaller generated Word documents
• If the custom dictionary path wasn't created on disk, the content of the custom dictionary was lost when the application was closed
• Keyboard's context menu shortcut didn't work in the topic editor and snippet editor
• It was not possible to set a template variable's kind to "memo" in the template editor
• It was not possible to restore the default icon anymore if the automated settings' default icon was changed
• Script command line option produced errors when trying to access HelpNDoc's API methods
• Double clicking on a table border could raise an exception
• Some child windows could display a shadow over other windows even when they were not visible
• Updated Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop link as it is not provided by Microsoft anymore
• Licensing system could return a "CoInitializeEx failed" error for some mis-configured drivers / hard-drives

Version 7.1.3.270 – Release date: Feb 15, 2021

• Brand new installation could crash without any errors when creating or opening a project

Version 7.1.2.266 – Release date: Feb 12, 2021

• Table of contents and other tree editors were not always showing the typed content when edited

Version 7.1.1.256 – Release date: Feb 3, 2021

• An EInvalidGraphic "Bitmap image is not valid" exception could be shown at program startup
• Smaller icons were not always correctly scaled

Version 7.1.0.253 – Release date: Feb 2, 2021

• It is now possible to define default image and image map settings from the library: they will be used when image is inserted into topics
• Added support for additional bar codes symbologies. New bar code types include: Code 11, Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 93, Code 93 Extended, Code 128 and Interleaved 2 of 5
• Project analyzer's spell checker now checks misspelled words in snippets
• MacOS version of the Floating license server is now a universal binary which supports both the Intel x64 and Apple ARM64 processors
• Default HTML template can now optionally add an Alt text for the logo
• Generating a PDF with rotated cells containing text could produce an exception
• Activating the "Force image sizes as Inches" CHM option could generate very small pictures
• Strengthened script execution: functions returning null objects could return non-null objects and therefore failed the Assigned() check
• HTML search engine could return invalid results for some words
• More reliable handling of temporary folders: should be able to better clean after itself
• Enhancements and fixes in DocX importer: compatible with more DocX documents, enhanced theme color and font names import...
• Optimized project analyzer which is now faster in most cases
• Trees and grids do not show alternate row colors anymore as they made it hard to see the selected item
• Topic editor's header and popup menu could be displayed too small on high DPI screens
• Improved image scaling for semi-transparent images in topic editor
• Improved speed, security and reliability of licensing library
• Under some rare conditions, exported Word or PDF documents could be empty or partially generated
• Improved OpenOffice spell dictionaries compatibility
• Default HTML template incorrectly opened a new tab when clicking a link to an e-mail address

Version 7.0.0.199 – Release date: Dec 8, 2020

• Brand new script engine: easier and more readable syntax, faster compilation and execution, more reliable error messages, many bug fixes, future proof...
• Completely new PDF generator which is faster, uses less memory, produces smaller files and generates better looking PDF documents
• Brand new DocX importer which do not require the installation of Microsoft Office converters: up to 40x faster, uses less memory, more reliable and better import quality
• New counters library items: use them to count items such as figures, tables, equations...
• Creating a new project: it is now possible to import an existing project's table of contents in addition to a CHM table of contents
• Added the ability to backup the currently opened project
• Variables, system variables, image maps and bar codes can now be defined as hyperlinks
• Default HTML template can now optionally generate a resize bar to be able to dynamically resize the left contents/index/search panels
• Script build's warning and information messages are now shown even when build is successful
• Clean output directory at generation time is now faster and sends the folder to the recycle bin instead of deleting permanently
• Setup now has a new modern look and feel
• It was possible to break some library items types when defining an hyperlink for them
• When a picture was also a hyperlink, it was not possible to double-click on it to edit the associated library item
• The PDF generator can now better handle some symbol characters such as numbers found in the Windings font
• The project analyzer's general information dialog could report wrong counts of library items, usually inverted values between item types
• The project analyzer dialog now stay on top of the main window to simplify interaction between analyzer and project
• Hovering over the library panel or showing a popup or tool-tip could hide the project analyzer window
• Both HndBuildsStatus and HndBuildsStatusEx objects were not accessible from scripts
• Command line status override didn't work as expected
• Resized image maps were not working as expected after navigating between topics in default HTML template
• Updated jQuery with security fix in default HTML template
• Optimized and improved header automatic hiding on small screens in default HTML template
• Better accessibility in default HTML template's table of contents tree
• Word and PDF generators now correctly export hyperlinks in cover page, headers and footers
• It was not possible to define an empty value for a custom topic property as it displayed an error message
• Licensing improvements: better handling of proxies, fewer deactivations, security fixes and improvements

Version 6.9.0.577 – Release date: May 5, 2020 – Download

• 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

Version 6.8.0.521 – Release date: Mar 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

Version 6.7.0.479 – Release date: Jan 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

Version 6.6.0.444 – Release date: Dec 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

Version 6.5.0.399 – Release date: Oct 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

Version 6.4.1.367 – Release date: Sep 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

Version 6.4.0.357 – Release date: Sep 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

Version 6.3.0.298 – Release date: Jul 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

Version 6.2.0.255 – Release date: Jun 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

Version 6.1.0.206 – Release date: Apr 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

Version 6.0.1.167 – Release date: Mar 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

Version 6.0.0.154 – Release date: Mar 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

Version 5.9.1.788 – Release date: Nov 19, 2018 – Download

• Included HTTP Server could fail to work properly under certain conditions
• Smaller setup EXE file: removed unneeded files

Version 5.9.0.711 – Release date: Sep 6, 2018

• New WinHelp (*.hlp) file importer (Beta) which can import topics, contents, pictures, hyperlinks and keywords from older WinHelp files
• Google Analytics support in the default HTML template: add a valid Google Analytics ID in the template settings and it will be included in the generated pages
• Library items analyzer can now detect and report items used in builds settings: they are not marked as unused anymore
• New script to merge children topics' contents in the currently selected topic: MergeChildrenTopics.hnd.pas
• Some common error messages now include help topics for easier troubleshooting
• In the default HTML template, it wasn't possible to translate the "search..." placeholder
• Styles gallery now only displays styles with a checked "Quick Access" property
• HelpNDoc defaults to baseline vertical-align for images while the default HTML template used middle
• Changes to project author, comment, description, copyright, summary or version wasn't immediately visible in library items' popup preview
• Mass import library items window wasn't translated to French / German
• Build log images weren't correctly scaled on high DPI screens
• Conditional tags were not correctly drawn in the topic editor for High DPI screens
• When placed right after a bullet item in the topic editor, conditional tags used an incorrect font making them unreadable
• Text files are now imported as UTF-8 files
• Importing a document using the library import dialog did import it with an unknown extension resulting in warning at generation time
• Previous and Next buttons didn't work anymore in the topic editor
• Faster application loading time by deferring API initialization
• Fixed memory leaks including an obscure memory leak on shutdown

Version 5.8.2.643 – Release date: Jun 5, 2018

• Rapidly import multiple media elements in the library using the new "Import files" dialog
• Drag multiple files from the Windows Explorer and drop them on the library panel to import them
• Dropping files to the topic editor will show the new import files dialog: single document dropping will insert it in place
• Template assets (CSS, JavaScript, Images...) can be edited directly from the template editor using any third party application
• Create new blank template asset from the template editor without the need to import an existing file
• Ability to quickly rename a script in the template editor
• Access the template location on the computer from the template editor using the new "Open location" button
• Optionally force image size generation as Inches for CHM help files: could produce better results for High DPI screens
• Template editor can be launched even when project is closed
• HTML based documentation formats will now warn if the default topic is not a "normal" topic to avoid problems with the generated documentation
• Default CHM template now supports custom CSS and JavaScript code from template settings
• Fixed default CHM template rendering for High DPI screens
• Error message could be shown when saving a project after library item manipulation
• Renaming a library item didn't always update the topic editor (E.g. variables were never renamed)
• Library item's editor tool-bars were customizable when they shouldn't be
• Localized spelling options dialog (German, French) didn't show the whole content correctly
• Topic titles variables were not always working as expected
• Deleting a library item's caption in the library panel and using the ESC key froze the application
• Keywords without associated topics could create a corrupted "Index" for the CHM documentation format
• Automatically setting up a default topic when not defined didn't work as expected

Version 5.7.1.578 – Release date: Apr 17, 2018

• Completely redesigned the library item creation / modification dialog for simpler and faster library item management
• Library items included within the project can now be individually exported
• Library item editor now displays a preview of image maps and snippets
• Library item editor now accepts files dropped from a third-party application such as the Windows Explorer
• Library item editor window is now resizable
• Picture library items can now be converted to image maps and vice versa
• Completely rewritten library items hint preview: larger and more robust preview image, faster loading, less resource consumption
• Library item hint will now display a preview of external picture items (dynamically loaded from disk)
• Dropping an HND project file on the welcome page from Windows Explorer will open it
• Editing the caption of a library item in the hierarchy didn't validate it anymore thus allowing library items with duplicate captions
• Hovering over library items while one item was being renamed could cause editor to be closed
• Library items and keywords title change could require a focus change to be stored
• Ribbon tabs and groups were not always translated
• Images and Tables contextual ribbon tabs were always visible
• Popup menus in the ribbon bar could hide (collapse) some infrequently used items
• Included CHM decompiler has been improved and is now a signed trusted executable
• Decreased generation time for HTML based documentation formats with large number of files to process
• Optimized speed and resource consumption when hovering over library items
• More robust main window positioning when a monitor has been unplugged
• Overall speed and resource enhancements regarding to included library items content

Version 5.6.1.532 – Release date: Mar 2, 2018

• New customizable syntax highlighter with multiple built-in programming languages
• Help IDs now allow the dash "-" character making it easier to create SEO hyperlinks
• The quick access toolbar customization is now saved and restored when the application is launched
• HTML generation now warns if the generated file name is the same as one of the topic's help id as it could cause problems
• CTRL + Click on a topic link to an anchor in the topic editor will show the topic at the correct anchor's position
• Project analyzer incorrectly checked spelling in hyperlinks
• Fixes and performance enhancements in the HND project file format handling
• Further enhancements to SVG icons rendering and High DPI monitor support
• For HTML based documentation format, choosing a file name similar but with different case as one of the help ids could cause a file creation error
• Using the default HTML template, CTRL + Clicking on hyperlinks didn't open in a new window / tab
• Greatly reduced memory usage for Word and PDF generation of malformed projects with lots of different styles due to copy / paste from third party software
• Some Wingdings characters were incorrectly exported to HTML based documentation formats only
• The "ß" character is now replaced by "ss" when filtering topics' Help Ids
• Moving library items or keywords just after changing their caption could cause an error
• Optimized and improved debug code and reported debug information for the debug edition
• Fixed obscure memory leaks

Version 5.5.0.486 – Release date: Jan 16, 2018

• New project analyzer section: spell checker which will find misspelled words in the whole project
• Topic titles will stick to the same page as the topic content in Word documents
• Ability to add tab character in Word / PDF topic titles using the \t placeholder
• Beta version of the floating license server for Linux and Mac OS X
• New script to automate topic caption numbering based on its hierarchy level in the table of contents
• Speed and memory improvements when generating search data for all HTML templates
• Project analyzer now reports the number of words in the project
• HTML templates' JavaScript search data could include content which wasn't included due to unmet conditions
• CHM and HTML navigation arrows could include links to blank topics thus creating 404 not found errors
• Default topic's content was added twice to JavaScript search engine database
• Better high DPI screen support in various parts of HelpNDoc such as the topic editor...
• Enhancements in HelpNDoc's user interface with better skin painting, less intrusive scrollbars, better scalable icons rendering...

Version 5.4.1.404 – Release date: Oct 19, 2017

• Completely rewritten command line options: it is more reliable, with additional features, it has a cleaner syntax and an enhanced console output
• Command line build action can now override the project builds' output path, tags, template and variables
• Command line can now include the "verysilent" option (ss) which won't even show a console window
• New anchor editor to easily and rapidly create, delete and locate anchors in the current topic
• Font dialog now displays a preview of the fonts
• Adding an item to the library will automatically insert it in the currently selected folder or in the currently selected item's parent folder
• It is now possible to specify the HTML rendering engine used by the CHM help viewer, including Microsoft Edge and older versions of Internet Explorer
• Ability to add a link to the default HTML template's custom logo
• Re-engineered application's internals for more reliable startup and shutdown and greater future scalability
• Document generation dialog's build list could be hidden under certain conditions
• Some color picker popups could be incorrectly displayed on some screens
• HTML documentation's search engine result list could include corrupted topic titles
• HTML documentation's index could malfunction when topic titles contained specific characters
• HndTopicsTags was not accessible from scripting API
• Enhanced High DPI support in the topic editor
• A topic with an help ID of "main" could break the HTML table of contents
• Fixed bugs in HTML based list style exporting
• Better saving of tables to Word DocX
• Better RTF Import / Export

Version 5.3.2.378 – Release date: Sep 7, 2017

• HelpNDoc is now High DPI aware: UI and icons have been updated to scale according to Windows display settings
• HTML documentation can now be launched to a specific tab (e.g. ?tab=index) and with a specific search (e.g. ?search=help)
• Unknown document library item extensions will be imported as text instead of displaying an error
• Ability to rapidly load system and user scripts: click the arrow next to "Load Script" to quickly load it
• New script to sort all topics in currently opened project alphabetically by topic caption
• New script to sort all children topics of the currently selected topics alphabetically by topic caption
• New script to reset all topics' context numbers incrementally
• Default HTML template will now display an error message in case the web server is misconfigured to serve JSON files
• Deleting keywords or library items could result in an error message when they were being renamed
• Keywords were incorrectly written to HTML topics in the HTML documentation format
• Script editor will correctly open / save to "Script" personal folder by default and filter by script extension
• Some JavaScript features of the HTML documentation format could not work when topic titles included non-breaking spaces
• Main form's height was not always correctly restored
• CTRL+K keyboard shortcut didn't work when trying to add currently selected word to keyword list
• Better CHM topic title importing
• Default HTML template did not use the correct icon (question mark) for topics without children
• Default HTML template did make an unwanted GET request to a debug file
• Build names were always in English (not localized) when a new project was created
• It wasn't possible to create a new Qt Help template from the template editor

Version 5.2.0.265 – Release date: Jun 6, 2017

• Default HTML template can now generate a valid sitemap.xml file if specified in build settings
• Build summary now display the number of warning and errors for each build to rapidly spot a potential problem
• JavaScript search engine will now find partial words by default instead of only full words
• New text transformation: change character case of the selected text, which loops between uppercase, lowercase, capitalize words
• New text transformation: convert paragraph breaks to soft line breaks
• HTML based builds now warn when the output directory is not empty to avoid possible compilation problems
• Ability to insert non-breaking spaces using the CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE keyboard shortcut
• Default HTML template has a new onTopicChanged event which is called each time the topic changes
• Custom JavaScript code is now run before the app in the default HTML template giving it a chance to customize the app
• Default HTML template will now correctly load the JSON table of contents even if the web server is misconfigured
• Selecting similar project items in the project analyzer could cause an exception
• Replaced default HTML template keywords popup by modal dialog as it was not working for long lists and on small devices
• Keywords attached to topics whose caption contains single quotes didn't always correctly show the topic list in default HTML template
• When topics were scrolled down on the default HTML template, linking to another topic didn't move the scroll bar up
• HTML code library items didn't correctly export line breaks
• HTML language code was always "en" instead of the correct project's language code
• Smarter automatic generation of Qt Help project namespace which could previously produce invalid ones
• Qt help documentation generation could fail when retrieving compiler output
• Find all in entire project with "Search forward" option unchecked didn't always work as expected
• Internal web server's 404 error links used hard-coded localhost URL which could cause problem when browsed from an outside device
• Some e-mail subjects were not correctly encoded in HTML based documentation formats

Version 5.1.0.217 – Release date: Apr 18, 2017

• Project settings (title, default topic, author, date/time format...) can now be overridden for each build
• HTTP Web Server can now be launched at any location from the Tools ribbon tab
• It is now possible to specify the default listening port of the HTTP Web Server instead of the default 8080
• Pasting topics with hyperlinks to children topics now correctly restore those hyperlinks
• Hyperlinks to files were not always working properly using the default HTML template
• Hyperlinks to _blank URLs didn't always work property in the default HTML template
• Custom and hidden headers / footers were not correctly exported in default HTML template
• Hiding the navigation arrows in the default HTML template could produce incorrect HTML code
• Default HTML template will not try to request debug map files anymore
• Anchors with space didn't work correctly in responsive HTML template
• Numbering as text didn't work in CHM / HTML templates anymore
• HTTP Web Server's error pages are more useful: 404 error pages will list available HTML files
• HTML library items with Unicode content could be corrupted when exported to HTML based documentation formats
• Empty topics were not listed in Word / PDF table of contents anymore
• Topic visibility wasn't updated in table of contents' popup
• RSS feed display didn't include new version notification anymore
• Project settings better scales for smaller window sizes
• Script editor now always stays on top of HelpNDoc's main window
• Using the "Vacuum project" command will prompt before starting and confirm after successful completion
• Resetting the project's date/time format will ask confirmation first
• Fixed some memory leaks

Version 5.0.1.188 – Release date: Mar 7, 2017

• Updated user interface: introduced Microsoft Office 2016 inspired look and feel
• Completely rewritten HTML template: HTML5, compatible with all device sizes (responsive), easily customizable...
• It is now possible to split imported files (Word documents, HTML files...) by font size or outline level
• Topics can now be removed from the table of contents only by setting their visibility to "Hidden in table of contents"
• Updated jQuery mobile HTML template to the latest version: performance improvements and better mobile compatibility
• Added jQuery mobile themes to customize the look and feel of mobile HTML web-sites
• Added the ability to alter the text flow around floating items by clearing text left, right or both
• A local HTTP server is available to show the HTML documentation as if uploaded to a web-server
• License check system: named license are activated via a license key while floating licenses are manager by a floating license server
• PDF generator can now generate projects of any size without memory limitations
• Enhanced RSS feed display in the welcome page: faster application loading time and less random errors
• Optimized loading of library items content
• Word and PDF generators will now correctly number table of content and topic titles when hidden topics are used
• It wasn't possible to generate Qt Help files from the command line
• HelpNDoc could produce an exception at closing time
• Better handling of project locking: when a project is opened by an instance of HelpNDoc, it can't be opened by another instance
• Invalid characters could be added to captions: they are now automatically removed
• PDF generator didn't always respect the list of excluded PDF fonts thus sometimes creating larger PDF files
• Clarified PDF settings dialog regarding user permission
• Enhanced generation log summary to provide additional options: copy path, open location, open file, serve file
• Reworked the project analyzer's user interface to simplify access to filters and actions
• Keywords analyzer is now more useful as it displays a list of attached topics
• Deleting multiple library items in the analyzer could take a long time
• Legacy frame HTML template could show a JavaScript error if a topic wasn't in the table of contents
• Page number approximation in generated Word documents is much more accurate. F9 field refresh is still needed to force field updates
• The table of contents' page numbers in the generated Word documents were missing if the cover page was hidden
• Quick generation output path will now use the output path setup in the options
• Made sure a default topic is always selected at generation time to avoid generation problems
• Topic titles could be incorrectly positioned after floating pictures in all documentation formats
• Easier image resizing for high DPI screens
• Better picture saving to RTF
• Some links in custom HTML code could break HTML-based documentation generation
• Won't show an exception anymore and lock the generation dialog when generating to an unwritable folder
• Multiple speed enhancements and bug fixes
• HelpNDoc is not tested on Windows XP anymore: Microsoft doesn't support Windows XP anymore

Version 4.9.2.132 – Release date: Jan 12, 2016 – Download

• New generated documentation format: Qt Help
• New auto-completion for hyperlinks: start with http:// or other protocols and hit CTRL-SPACE to rapidly create an hyperlink
• Distributed paragraph alignment. Only recommended for East Asian languages
• Opacity support for paragraph background color
• New scripts for mass header/footer updating
• Faster project creation and opening
• Better table sizing in topic editor
• Setting table cells preferred width to percent didn't work as expected
• An access violation errors could occurs under certain rare conditions when generating documentation
• Inserting a page break within a table cell generated produced an "Item index is out of bounds" error
• Word table of contents page fields lost their style when updated
• PDF documents automatically switched pages every few seconds when viewed in full screen mode in some viewers
• Kindle eBooks didn't always correctly display the cover picture
• Kindle generation log could report an error even though generation succeeded
• Style names were not translated in the "Styles" group of the "Write" ribbon tab
• Live spell checker won't report errors with curved apostrophes in French language

Version 4.8.0.849 – Release date: Aug 4, 2015

• Auto-completion: use the CTRL+Space keyboard shortcut to quickly create links or insert library items
• It is now possible to override user-defined variables for each build in the build settings
• New methods available to scripts and templates: HndBuild.GetBuildFirst and HndBuild.GetBuildWithName
• Introduce the /l argument to log to a text file when using console line generation
• Included sample scripts in HelpNDoc's installation directory
• The THndBuildInfo, THndBuildInfoArray, THndTopicsAttachMode types are now accessible in scripts and templates
• Switching builds in the generate documentation window will keep the currently visible customization tab
• Under certain conditions an HTML-based template could produce inactive hyperlinks
• The default HTML template will now be more reliable when selecting the currently viewed topic in the table of contents
• The generated HTML could be corrupted when the current user didn't have the proper rights to access external library items
• The table of contents hierarchy could be wrong under certain conditions when using conditional topic generation
• Some parts of the user interface were not translated to French and German
• Only one instance of the installer can be launched at the same time

Version 4.7.1.684 – Release date: Feb 17, 2015

• The template editor can now be used to quickly and easily create and alter all possible kinds of templates
• Completely rewritten the hyperlink generation process to be able to correctly handle both encoded and non-encoded URLs
• The CTRL-SUPPR keyboard shortcut can be used to delete the word right of the caret
• Greatly improved selection speed in topic editor, particularly in tables
• URLs could be double encoded in some conditions
• Inserting or editing an hyperlink did show an incorrect simplified dialog box under some conditions
• The table of contents in Word and PDF documents didn't respect all template settings
• Table of contents' page numbers could be moved to the next line for some Word and PDF documents
• HndBuildTags and HndBuildTagsEx were not accessible from the scripting API
• Image maps will now correctly display the title hint on all web browsers
• Sample HND projects will not contain any default output paths anymore
• Using the CTRL-A keyboard shortcut in a table of the content editor threw an exception
• The Default HTML template did create a broken link to empty topics in breadcrumbs
• The "Operation" section of the conditional insert/edit window didn't update correctly
• The table cells properties window didn't correctly update the width and height when numeric values were entered via keyboard
• Better import of Doc, DocX and RTF documents
• It wasn't possible to drop image maps in tables when coming from the library

Version 4.6.2.573 – Release date: Oct 23, 2014

• Added editable breadcrumb above the topic editor for faster moving within the table of contents' hierarchy
• New optional CHM decompiler is included which can handle Help Context number import
• Quick generation process will now indicate which build it is using if it finds a suitable build in the build list
• Generation process will issue a warning when a template is used by a build but not available on the system
• Template editor's window has been redesigned and can be resized
• Numbered lists will be correctly generated to HTML even when items are split by paragraphs
• On Windows XP, topics with a lot of broken pictures didn't load completely
• Display of thumbnail for library items is now a lot faster for large libraries
• The Insert items popup menus are now faster to display for large libraries and faster to include pictures
• Pasting and dropping pictures is now a lot faster for large projects
• Popup menus from the "Insert" ribbon tab were sometimes displaying incorrect information
• The "Insert Image Map" button was missing from the "Insert" ribbon toolbar
• Renaming a report template removed any spaces in the new name and didn't select the renamed template
• Links to anchors with a space characters didn't work correctly for CHM, DocX and RTF output formats
• Opening the style inspector could generate an exception
• Section indicator was stuck on "Page settings" in the report template editor
• The new project table of contents importer could generate an exception
• Better CHM import: some specific files didn't include any content
• Better HTML import and code generation

Version 4.5.0.497 – Release date: Aug 20, 2014

• New EPub importer: decompile and import ePub eBooks into new or existing HelpNDoc projects
• Added option to disable bookmarks generation in PDF documentation output
• Default HTML template will now add each topic's keywords in the head meta keywords meta for better SEO
• Topic content couldn't be saved and loaded for some systems with Asian or East-European languages locales
• Reduced memory consumption when projects are open
• Setting some specific topic properties such as "Include in builds" could incorrectly update multiple topics
• PDF generator could crash with projects containing the "Myriad Pro" font
• Help file was not showing when HelpNDoc was opened by double clicking and HND project file
• Files with and .xhtml extension where not imported
• Better German and French translations

Version 4.4.0.418 – Release date: Jun 3, 2014

• Manage keywords and topics association window: quickly associated with multiple topics
• Many default paths are now configurable: default output, dictionaries, project, styles and templates
• Added keywords to the analyzer: get stats, a list of keywords, unused keywords, and manage associated topics
• The Generate documentation window will now correctly show the most recently created templates when opened
• HelpNDoc will use the project path when opening or saving the first project
• Folders were incorrectly listed in the project analyzer
• Snippets and image maps didn't have any kind setup in the project analyzer
• Under certain rare conditions DocX generator could crash with an index out of bounds
• Page numbers was always displayed in the table of contents for DocX and PDF even if templates hide it
• Image maps didn't correctly encode characters for the Title text
• An error message could be shown when previewing a corrupted library image
• An error will now be displayed when an image cannot be written to disk due to incorrect characters in name

Version 4.3.1.364 – Release date: Apr 10, 2014

• New image map library item: create reusable image maps for your HTML-based documentations
• ePub and Kindle eBooks can now optionally include an inline cover page and table of contents page
• Picture size edit will now optionally resize pictures while constraining proportions
• Pictures can now have an optional padding, margin and background color
• Better generation of the ePub cover page for better compatibility with Adobe Digital Edition and some e-Readers
• The project analyzer didn't always report broken hyperlinks
• Picture size edits weren't always correctly updated when a picture was resized
• Resetting picture properties didn't update those properties in the ribbon
• Some pictures were not correctly exported to DocX thus generating corrupted files
• Hyperlinks were not always correctly escaped when generating DocX documents thus generating corrupted files
• The JavaScript search engine of the HTML documentation format automatically highlighted the "undefined" word
• There was still problems when saving the changed output file path in the generator window

Version 4.2.0.299 – Release date: Feb 6, 2014

• Library items can now be grouped in folders for easier navigation and management
• Multi-selection has been enabled for library items and keywords for multiple deletion/moving
• Table of contents, keywords and library items tree nodes expansion status is now saved to and restored from project
• Template variables names and descriptions can be translated. Existing variables have been translated to French and German
• It is now possible to remove the cover picture for ePub and Kindle documentation formats
• Generators log will now provide additional details in case an exception occurs
• The OK and Cancel buttons were not visible in the import style dialog for French and German translations
• It wasn't possible to change picture width, height, spacing or alt text from the ribbon tab anymore
• Better importing of tables in RTF files
• Drag and drop in the topic editor could insert content in the wrong position
• It is now easier to move keywords in the hierarchy when drag and dropping them
• Changing the output file path in the generator window was not always saved correctly
• Scripts: THndIntegerArray was not declared therefore HndTopics.GetTopicIndexHierarchy was not working correctly
• Some style properties could be incorrectly loaded after importing the default.hnd style sheet
• JavaScript search engine didn't correctly escape URLs for external topics which could break the search feature
• The DocX and RTF generation could fail unexpectedly for some projects
• Inserting or importing multiple HTML files in a project could result in very slow and resource hungry generation
• Topic icon wasn't always correctly updated when changing topic

Version 4.1.0.219 – Release date: Nov 19, 2013

• Conditional generation of topics based on build kind and tags
• Double click on a library item in the topic editor to modify it
• Live spell checker is now available in the snippet editor and template editor
• Better support for touch screen in the topic editor
• Importing CHM and HTML files with encoded image file names didn't correctly import those images
• Importing CHM and HTML files with images with large file names could crash HelpNDoc
• Better Czech dictionary which can handle accented characters
• Better compatibility with Word 2003 and Word 2007 for generated DocX documents
• Better saving of tables in DocX documents
• Possible exceptions when editing the bottom part of a topic and with the find feature
• An exception could be shown when double clicking on an item in the find result panel
• An exception could be shown when searching in some projects
• Some German text labels were too small to display the whole text
• Better looking lists in welcome screen, recent projects and help pages with scroll bars when needed
• Editing a library item didn't correctly update the topic editor
• Easier assignment of custom topic headers/footers: when choosing custom, the popup menu will not automatically hide
• Topic kind popup will now check the current topic kind
• Code templates didn't respect topic visibility settings

Version 4.0.3.164 – Release date: Oct 9, 2013

• Redesigned style system: styles can inherit from parents, can be saved, and custom styles can be used for new projects
• The Word generator will now generate standard DOCX documents by default. RTF option is still available in build settings
• New Word and PDF template editor: customize page layout, cover page, headers, footers, titles, table of contents...
• New Snippet library item: Add formatted content to the library and re-use it throughout the project
• Style inspector popup window to get information about the current text and paragraph styles
• Script editor to edit and run scripts and automate tasks within HelpNDoc
• Hyperlinks will now use styles for easier project-wide modification
• Items with anchors will now display a hint with the anchor name when the mouse is over
• HTML search engine is smarter: it can search parts of words, results are ranked and words can be excluded by prefixing them with a "-" character
• New system variables for Word and PDF documentations: display the current page number and the total number of pages
• External topics can now use relative paths for external files
• Importing a file or a folder won't automatically create a new project anymore: they will be imported in the current project if already open
• Merging library items will now display a waiting dialog
• HelpNDoc's user interface is now translated in German
• System variables with date and time are now customizable in project options and will be localized according to project language settings
• Copy/Paste of topics between instances of HelpNDoc now correctly include pictures
• PDF documents could contain un-readable characters in the table of contents when encrypted
• CTRL+F1 keyboard shortcut was showing the help file instead of just collapsing the ribbon bar
• Word generator now uses less memory to generate big documentation files
• iPhone template didn't include custom styles for topic content
• Google Chrome users can now use the HTML search engine locally
• Library items shown in popups were not always sorted
• Word and PDF templates can hide page numbers in the table of contents
• HTML search engine didn't clear its data between two generation which could lead to outdated search data
• HTML search engine will now correctly display link topic kinds
• Help ID generation is smarter: accented characters are replaced by ASCII equivalent for better SEO
• Cursor position in topic editor was not always reset when moving from one topic to another
• Initial Help ID for new topics was incorrectly generated using another topic's caption
• The table of contents title for Word and PDF documentation formats wasn't correctly generated when it contained Chinese characters
• CHM importer can now correctly handle links with anchors
• External topics were not exported to Word and PDF documentation formats
• XSS safety algorithm in the HTML template could break links to topics with caption containing "script" or "javascript"
• Word and PDF documentation formats didn't correctly generate relative hyperlinks
• Save a project as the same opened file shows an odd error message
• Images were not scaled correctly anymore when too big for Word and PDF documentation formats
• Hyperlink action provided a different window when used from the popup menu
• Updated OpenOffice.org dictionary download URL
• The font sizes combo box were not reliable anymore for the topic editor, snippet editor, and some template editor properties
• Some characters in hyperlinks could create corrupted DOCX files
• Tables could not be seen in editor anymore when borders were hidden
• Added an error message when trying to add a condition within a table
• Some formatting could produce invalid DOCX documents
• Import folder dialog will now automatically refresh the "files to import" list when browse button is used
• Dragging and dropping a picture when in a table would make it disappear
• Faster project opening: initial topic was loaded twice
• Last topic edited was loaded empty if the project is immediately re-opened
• Link to URL or file topic will now correctly show the URL or file
• ePub and Kindle documentation were adding and extra colon character instead of spaces
• New project dialog uses the dictionary defined by the language property for live spell
• Generating a project from command line with included external HTML documents was not always including them
• Hyperlinks are now trimmed from the Insert/Edit hyperlink window
• JQuery HTML template had encoding and tag problems
• The help window was shown behind the script editor window
• Can't import HelpNDoc v2.x projects anymore: use version 3.9 to convert older projects first

Version 3.9.1.648 – Release date: May 21, 2013 – Download

• CHM generator's base color can be customized in the template properties
• An exception could be displayed when the application is launched indicating that a control had no parent window
• ePub generator didn't always correctly generate the cover picture
• HTML search engine did infinite loops after clicking on the result when it ended with a space character

Version 3.9.0.595 – Release date: Mar 26, 2013

• Enhanced importer: import multiple files at once into a new project and import various file types
• Incremental search in various places: start typing a node caption to search for it and focus it
• New keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the user interface: CTRL + F1 through F6
• Use the SPACE keyboard shortcut to associate a keyword with the current topic
• Panels positions and sizes are now persistent and will be restored when HelpNDoc is restarted
• Use the /reset command line option to reset forms size and position as well as panels layout
• Installer and uninstalled now warns if HelpNDoc is already running
• Greatly reduced memory usage when generating documents with large number of pictures except for Word generator
• The styles gallery now resizes itself to fit the whole available space
• Command line silent mode wasn't working correctly anymore
• Better error message when the project file is locked by another application or instance of HelpNDoc
• Reduced flicker in the ribbon bar when resizing the main window
• Removed XSS vulnerability in HTML generated documentation
• Fixed possible error of the Javascript search engine in the default HTML template

Version 3.8.0.560 – Release date: Jan 29, 2013

• Project analyzer will report various useful information about the current project: broken links, merge library items...
• History of viewed topics with previous/next buttons
• New project dialog is now resizable and will store its size
• The "Show Special Characters" feature is now persistent and will be restored each time HelpNDoc is opened
• An exception could occur at application start time
• Importing some CHM files could result in empty imported topics: anchors in the table of contents were not correctly handled
• When deleting a selected topic, the newly selected topic seemed randomly chosen. It is now either the next or previous one

Version 3.7.1.482 – Release date: Nov 19, 2012

• HTML documentation could not always select the first displayed table of contents item when viewed from a remote server
• A frame was displayed around the content when printing a CHM topic
• Word generator always compressed bitmap pictures even if the option for automatic compression was not checked
• The Word documentation wasn't generated if the used template didn't show the table of contents
• Word documentations could add extra empty lines before topic titles
• French translation errors in the documentation generation log
• The recent projects and places lists weren't correctly saved to the registry which could lead to incorrect entries

Version 3.7.0.456 – Release date: Oct 25, 2012

• Conditional build system: control which part of the documentation is present in each build through conditional tags
• Added keyboard shortcuts to insert/move/delete/edit properties of keywords and library items (CTRL+INSERT, CTRL+ARROW, CTRL+DELETE, CTRL+ENTER)
• Some Central/Eastern European characters may appear broken in the CHM search result list: fixed with the CHM template option "Use project charset for topics"
• Option to enable only the selected build and rename a build in the build generation list
• Popup menu for easier and faster build management in the build generation list
• It is now possible to clear recent projects and places from the option dialog
• Some fonts with custom spacing could produce overlapping characters in PDF documents
• Better support for bookmarks in PDF documents
• Some Central European characters were not correctly generated in the CHM table of contents
• Better support for some OpenOffice.org dictionaries
• Creating a new blank project didn't set up default project language which could lead to empty title for CHM documentation
• Google Chrome now correctly displays the table of contents for HTML documentations when viewed locally
• Topics with large caption could have duplicate auto-generated help IDs
• Word and PDF documentation didn't add requested page breaks when topic titles were hidden
• Parts of the table of contents of some rare CHM help files could not be imported
• CHM documentation didn't correctly display table background images and bullet lists images
• Recent projects and places could contain invalid paths

Version 3.6.0.345 – Release date: Jul 11, 2012

• New build system: create as many customized build of any documentation format as needed. Warning: command line changes
• Added support for invisible topics: invisible topics and their children won't be generated in any documentation format
• Relative external library items are now imported at generation time
• It is now possible to indent bullets and numbering with the TAB key
• EPub and Mobi generators didn't correctly generate link topic kinds
• EPub generator didn't correctly escape Some characters which could lead to errors on the iPad
• Norwegian dictionary from OpenOffice.org didn't install correctly
• The default HTML template generated un-balanced HTML comments
• RTF importer didn't correctly import relative hyperlinks
• Empty topics could produce corrupted PDF table of contents
• HTML documentation could cause errors when tabs where hidden
• HTML search engine didn't find words containing the "T" character
• Color dialog now saves custom colors
• HTML based generators will correctly update topic files when the character case has changed

Version 3.5.1.288 – Release date: May 17, 2012

• HTML documentation produced errors in web-browsers when topic captions contained quotes or double quotes
• PDF documentation could display weird page numbering text on the first page
• Generate Mobipocket/Kindle checkbox was always checked in generation dialog

Version 3.5.0.284 – Release date: May 14, 2012

• HelpNDoc software and help file has been translated to French
• HelpNDoc can now generate standard EPub EBooks
• HelpNDoc can now generate Mobipocket/Kindle EBooks
• HTML based documentation can now optionally skip exporting the default font style to rely on the web-browser's settings
• HTML based documentation can now optionally use percentage for the font size instead of points
• Insert hyperlink dialog window is now resizable and size is saved for next time it is used
• Re-introduced shortcuts to move, add or delete topics (CTRL+Arrows, CTRL+[SHIFT+]INSERT, CTRL+DELETE)
• It is now possible to generate Word and PDF documentation in landscape mode
• Completed percentage in the generation log window for long actions
• Internet Explorer could display an error about invalid characters in the table of contents for HTML documentation
• HTML based generators won't alter PHP or ASP code at generation time
• Relative topic links were not working for CHM documentations anymore
• Bullets and numberings are not generated as texts by default for HTML based documentation anymore as it didn't always produce good results
• "Enum" template settings could be rendered incorrectly in the generation settings dialog's list
• HelpNDoc could take a long time to launch if a recent networked location was not available
• An error occurred when clearing a text template variable in the customize dialog
• Checkbox controls were not displayed in the keywords panel when Windows themes were not enabled
• Keyword popup in HTML documentation now displays a close button

Version 3.4.2.197 – Release date: Mar 30, 2012

• When optimizing pictures, some of them could become empty or black PNG files for HTML and CHM documentation

Version 3.4.1.188 – Release date: Mar 26, 2012

• All generators are now using less memory and GDI resources
• Better PNG transparency in Word generated documentation
• Cursor was moved to the beginning of the topic text after pasting
• Library items were not always correctly replaced at generation time
• Customize template links were missing from the project options

Version 3.4.0.166 – Release date: Mar 6, 2012

• CHM and HTML Templates can now support customization from within HelpNDoc
• Various HTML template customization settings added: base color, visible tabs, expansion status, texts, icon sets...
• CHM and HTML Templates: Export numbered lists as text by default which usually looks closer to original. Customizable in template settings
• HTML Template: The table of contents tree is now synchronized with the displayed topic
• HTML Template: Icons set in HelpNDoc are now used in the table of contents
• CHM Template: Set the table of contents font from HelpNDoc
• PDF and Word Templates: It is now possible to use numbering for topic headings
• Copying and pasting multiple topics did not correctly paste their content
• CHM Template: CHM file couldn't be open using the help ID
• iPhone template enhancement: the footer DIV wasn't closed properly
• Style were not always correctly applied to selected text
• Word and PDF generators sometimes didn't take the updated style properties into account
• Fixed a rare exception which could occur when the live spell check was enabled and a table cell was edited
• Custom dictionary file was always overwritten when HelpNDoc was updated
• Terms were not always correctly encoded in the HTML search engine
• Word and PDF generators did focus the first topic after generation
• Word generator didn't display errors when launched from the quick generate popup
• Word and PDF generators could produce memory leaks after generation
• Pasted pictures could become broken if dragged before the topic had been saved
• Code template for "C/C++ Defines" didn't generate correct code
• Table columns and rows are now easier to select with the mouse

Version 3.3.0.123 – Release date: Jan 12, 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 – Release date: Nov 8, 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 – Release date: Sep 26, 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 – Release date: Sep 6, 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 – Release date: Aug 30, 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 – Release date: Aug 23, 2011

• Initial release of HelpNDoc 3.0

Version 2.9.0.144 – Release date: Nov 2, 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 – Release date: Sep 7, 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 – Release date: Aug 6, 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 – Release date: Jul 2, 2010

• The Word documentation generator could create corrupted files in some cases

Version 2.6.0.74 – Release date: Jun 13, 2010

• New project wizard provides a faster way to get started on a new project
• Import existing compiled CHM help file table of content in the new project wizard
• Optionally do not purge the generated HHP project files
• Anchors get passed when a topic page is redirected to show the table of content
• Project properties now display scroll bars when the window is too small to display everything
• HTML import could create incorrect picture size
• Various topic editor small enhancements: triple click selects paragraph...

Version 2.5.0.31 – Release date: Mar 30, 2010

• WARNING: Relative links are now consistent in all generated documentation. They are not relative to the "files" sub-directory anymore for CHM and HTML documentations
• Greatly reduced HTML compilation time for big projects
• PDF generator did draw anchors as empty space
• Better HTML anchor import
• Fixed HTML documentation JavaScript error in some conditions
• Fixed Internet Explorer JavaScript error in multiple word HTML search
• Fixed Word generator which didn't correctly export some characters

Version 2.4.0.15 – Release date: Jan 31, 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

Version 2.3.0.11 – Release date: Dec 9, 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

Version 2.2.0.3 – Release date: Sep 5, 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

Version 2.1.0.2 – Release date: Aug 2, 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

Version 2.0.1.4 – Release date: Jun 7, 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

Version 2.0.0.25 – Release date: May 16, 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 add them
• Added enum output to the Visual Basic code generation
• Better spell checking option dialog and various spell checking enhancements: 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

Version 1.16 – Release date: Oct 4, 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

Version 1.15 – Release date: Jul 22, 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

Version 1.14 – Release date: Jun 1, 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

Version 1.13 – Release date: Apr 6, 2008

• Completely redesigned spell checker with enhanced options and better integration. The English dictionary is now bundled by default
• Middle mouse scroll (middle click) in various parts of the application
• Fixed application crashing when topics were deleted
• Better HTML export
• Various optimisations and bug fixes

Version 1.12 – Release date: Jan 13, 2008

• HTML Help topics will now always launch with the table of content opened
• Fortran 90/95 code generator
• Code generation export dialog enhancement: file name is not save anymore between export
• General speed and reliability enhancements

Version 1.11 – Release date: Jul 22, 2007

• Fixed the export of background images in the topics
• Possibility to use subscript and superscript formatting options
• Various bug fixes

Version 1.10 – Release date: May 28, 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

Version 1.9 – Release date: May 30, 2006

• Double click to modify image property in the topic editor
• Live spell checker could take 100% CPU time on certain condition
• Support of relative URLs when exporting
• Hyperlink images do not show borders anymore
• Topic margins and page size could be incorrectly set from the ruler resulting in inconsistent layouts
• Interface layout is now saved between sessions
• Fixed a bug with relative hyperlinks in HTML export

Version 1.8 – Release date: Mar 14, 2006

• The live spell checker can now be disabled
• Possibility to automatically generate the context number for new topics
• Added cut/copy/paste of nodes within the same project
• Fixed accentuated characters export for Western code pages
• Right click to add the selection as a keyword in the topic editor
• Multi selection for drag and drop and node copying
• Removed the popup window when using HelpNDoc from command line
• Fixed incorrect menu animation
• Fixed Access Violation when CTRL + Drag a node
• Now generates a valid Delphi unit with proper interface and implementation sections
• File overwrite confirmation when generating code

Version 1.7 – Release date: Feb 1, 2006

• Better Unicode compliance
• Vastly improved command line interface. See help file for details
• Updated project pane layout
• Possible TOC corruption: project title wasn't correctly escaped in HTML output
• Optionally clean the "Files" sub-directory in HTML export
• Link to easily download HTML Help Workshop in the compiler output if it's not installed on the computer
• Various enhancements in the topic editor

Version 1.6.1 – Release date: Nov 7, 2005

• Icons were not exported in CHM help file anymore
• CTRL-A shortcut didn't work anymore
• Fixed some memory leaks

Version 1.6 – Release date: Oct 17, 2005

• Internet Explorer complained about an invalid character when viewing an Help Web Site
• Improved hyperlink window’s appearance for better consistency throughout the application and added shortcuts
• Improved the speed of creation of spell checking suggestions
• Keyword’s root could be deleted which could cause unexpected behavior
• Possibility to add a subject to e-mail hyperlinks
• New kind of hyperlinks: navigation, to go to next, previous, parent...
• Insert hyperlink field was truncated to 30 characters
• Keywords associated with multiple topics showed "untitled" topics in popup window
• Added shortcuts CTRL + ARROW to move items in the TOC
• Help file has been updated

Version 1.5 – Release date: Sep 5, 2005

• Introducing a basic HTML Export functionality
• Generate Visual Basic, C++ and Delphi constants for easier integration of the help file with programming languages
• Fixed a MS HTML Viewer bug which could display an error message when opening a CHM file
• Fixed a bug with topic ID modification in the topic editor

Version 1.4 – Release date: Jul 27, 2005

• Typing in the topic editor could become extremely slow and HND file could grow exponentially. The fix will be applied topic by topic once edited and saved
• Added anchors and possibility to link to them
• Enhanced link window with new links to anchors, file with or without relative paths, topics, Internet or e-mail
• Variables now display hints with current value
• Shortcut to add an hyperlink: CTRL+L
• Default topic font can now be defined in the project properties
• General application speed boost

Version 1.3 – Release date: May 23, 2005

• Internal HND format has been fine-tuned to provide better speed and size. Gain is proportional to project complexity but for reference: For a simple help file such as the one from HelpNDoc, the loading time is divided by 2 and the file size is only 70% of the original; For a bigger file, the loading is 30 times faster for a size of 64% of the original.
• Search and replace algorithm have been optimized. Speed is 6 times faster for a small size project and increases with project size.
• Possibility to change font and character set of the table of content in CHM files
• Detailed hint for each node: indicates the URL of the node in the CHM file, context number and the topic ID if required
• When a HND file was opened via the explorer, its name was converted to upper case

Version 1.2 – Release date: Apr 4, 2005

• New file format – HND files are now compressed. Conversion is made behind the scenes. Still compatible with old format in read mode
• Import of HTML, RTF, WRI, and TXT files. DOC files can be imported if Microsoft Office is installed on the system
• Implementation of a better find and replace function: ability to find and replace throughout the project
• Implementation of rudimentary Command line compilation feature: "HelpNDoc –c file.hnd"
• Better CHM generation: Added next and home buttons, advanced search tab, addition of the favorite tab
• Main window's position is now restored when HelpNDoc is launched
• Better handling of bullets and numbering in the ruler
• Fixed a bug where characters in the topic title could cause compilation error
• Shortcut to create a new topic, use CTRL+T
• Confirm save dialog could be displayed many times on application exit

Version 1.1.1 – Release date: Feb 24, 2005

• Topic name containing quotes prohibited project from being loaded

Version 1.1 – Release date: Feb 15, 2005

• Variables support (known limitation: variables can't be set as hyperlinks)
• Popup menu in the table of content
• Help file now contains information on how to integrate CHM files with Delphi and Visual Basic
• Configuration information are now saved in the registry
• Page background images weren't exported in CHM
• Better HTML Help Workshop location handling: ask location when it can't be found in the registry
• Faster CHM export
• Balloon Hints weren't working in HND 1.0
• The default icon wasn't always selected when required in the icons popup menu
• The background color and image were not reset when a new topic was created

Version 1.0 – Release date: Dec 9, 2004

• Initial Release