HelpNDoc 9.5 is here with a range of exciting new features and improvements that make technical writing more efficient and enjoyable. This new version is packed with features that enhance usability, streamline workflows, and provide a more pleasant writing environment. From sleek dark mode support to smarter PDF generation, HelpNDoc 9.5 offers plenty of innovations to explore. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new in HelpNDoc 9.5.
✨ Dark Mode Support: A Fresh Look for Your Writing Environment
Dark mode is now available throughout HelpNDoc, offering a modern, eye-friendly alternative for late-night writing sessions or those who prefer a darker UI.
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HelpNDoc’s user interface is fully optimized for dark mode, ensuring a comfortable and distraction-free experience. This new dark mode is ideal for reducing glare, especially in low-light conditions, allowing you to work for longer periods without discomfort. Whether you’re drafting help manuals or generating documentation, dark mode helps reduce eye strain while giving your interface a sleek, updated look. You will enjoy a refreshing, highly modern interface that is both visually appealing and conducive to productivity.
📖 Enhanced PDF Generation and Font Fallback
PDF creation has been further enhanced with fallback font support, ensuring that missing characters won’t be displayed as empty rectangles, often called “tofu”.
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This feature is especially helpful when working with content in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, where missing glyphs can easily occur. With a fallback font in place, HelpNDoc automatically uses the appropriate characters, allowing for seamless and professional-looking documents in multiple languages. With better character support, your PDFs are now more reliable and polished, regardless of the language. This means you can confidently create documentation that is accessible to a global audience, without the hassle of manually identifying and replacing unsupported characters.
🚀 More Improvements and Fixes for Smoother Workflows
HelpNDoc 9.5 focuses on improving your documentation process in a multitude of small yet meaningful ways, offering greater stability, efficiency, and customization capabilities.
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HelpNDoc 9.5 includes numerous enhancements to boost productivity, such as an upgraded mathematical equation editor with a context menu button for easier customization, improved HTML template printing to retain text and background colors, and new API methods that expand scripting capabilities. Performance improvements have been made for HTML documentation generation, script compilation, and the HelpNDoc main window’s startup time. The mathematical equation editor now offers better LaTeX support, display consistency, and faster performance, with improved virtual keyboard responsiveness and a fix for uppercase Greek letter input. Additionally, Word/PDF cryptography settings have been optimized for different DPI screens, and importing ePub files is now more reliable with enhanced table of contents compatibility support.
🛠️ Get HelpNDoc 9.5 Today!
HelpNDoc is free for personal use and evaluation purposes: download your version now!
Discover the benefits of these new features by downloading HelpNDoc for free for personal use and evaluation purposes, allowing you to explore its capabilities risk-free. HelpNDoc 9.5 is designed to make your documentation journey smoother, more intuitive, and more efficient. For full professional use, consider purchasing the complete version to unlock the full range of capabilities, providing you with all the advanced tools and customizations needed for high-quality technical writing.
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Change log
Version 9.5.0.415 – Release date: Oct 22, 2024
- Dark mode support throughout the application: HelpNDoc's user interface has been fully optimized to optionally support dark mode
- Added ability to define font fallback in the PDF Engine: helps prevent missing characters, which would otherwise appear as empty rectangles, in languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean...
- Mathematical equation editor now includes a context menu button for easier access to various customization options
- The default HTML template reset too many CSS elements when printing, including text and background colors
- Added missing API methods: HndLibraryItems.GetItemSourceContent; HndLibraryItems.GetItemSourceContentCheckSum; HndLibraryItems.SetItemSourceContent
- The default alignment of a picture wasn't applied to all instances until the input field was unfocused
- Mathematical equation editor has been optimized for improved formula input, display consistency, LaTeX support, with better performance and reduced memory consumption
- Improved the mathematical equation editor's virtual keyboard's responsiveness and reliability
- Fixed problem with uppercase Greek letter input in mathematical equation editor
- API method HndEditor.GetContentAsHtml didn't return hyperlinks as A HREF tags
- Some build settings panels such as Word/PDF cryptography and signing options could appear bigger or smaller on some screens with different DPI settings
- Slightly improved generation time of all HTML based documentation generation by optimizing character conversion routines
- Improved script and template compilation speed
- The ePub generator now includes improved support for importing ePub files with tables of contents that include anchors
- The current topic editor's position was lost when updating the properties of all instances of a library item
- Optimized creation and initial showing time of HelpNDoc's main window
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