Posted by Alexander Halser on March 26, 2018
Today we implemented the social media plugin Shariff, which enables website users to share their favorite content without compromising their privacy.
Facebook, Google+ and Twitter supply official sharing code snippets. These original share buttons automatically transmit data of your visitors to the social network sites as soon as they visit your website. Visitors do not even need to click on a share button for this and therefore have no choice, if they want their data to be sent.
The German computer magazine CT has developed Shariff (/ˈʃɛɹɪf/), a social media plugin that fulfills the strict data protection laws in Germany and the European Union.
For more information about the Shariff project check out the original GitHub project page.
These social media buttons below are for your convenience – a single click will share this post to your favorite social media site. But as long as you don’t click any of these buttons, they won’t leak visitor information to 3rd party sites. In other words: Facebook has no idea that you are currently viewing this page. If we used the regular Facebook share button, they would know.
Enjoy your privacy while reading this blog!
Posted by Alexander Halser on March 19, 2018
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we have released a maintenance update for Help+Manual 7.3,5. We encourage you to install this maintenance release over your existing version of Help+Manual.
This update includes a couple of minor bug fixes and one really exciting new feature: Goalfish!
Goalfish is a new software to create web presentations and interactive tutorials. Think of Goalfish as a graphics and animation editor to create interactive presentations for websites, technical documentation and eBooks.
Note: Goalfish has not been released yet! As a Help+Manual customer, you can join the Goalfish field test and get a preview. Help+Manual 7.3.5 fully supports the integration of Goalfish presentations into Help+Manual documentation.
Check out Goalfish and join the field test!
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.3.5 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
Posted by tim green on February 12, 2018
Versions 3.42/3.43 of the Help+Manual Premium Pack add-on is primarily a maintenance update. It is recommended for all Premium Pack users because it corrects several small but potentially annoying issues.
You can download and install the updated version with the credentials you received when you purchased. If you no longer have this please contact support@ec-software.com and we will help you out. See the Premium Pack product page for more details on Premium Pack 3 and visit our online store to purchase.
See the Premium Pack information page for general details and purchase information and the Premium Pack web-based documentation for full instructions.
Posted by Alexander Halser on January 12, 2018
With version 7.3.4 released last week, we had introduced a really bad bug: tables with background images could not be read anymore. This problem has been fixed with the new version 7.3.4 build 4380.
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.3.4 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
Posted by Alexander Halser on January 4, 2018
First of all: a Happy New Year to everybody who’s reading this newsblog!
We have been busy during the holiday season and completed Help+Manual 7.3.4, a free maintenance update for all 7.xx users. We encourage you to install this maintenance release over your existing version of Help+Manual.
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.3.4 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
Posted by Alexander Halser on November 30, 2017
We are glad to announce the release of Help+Manual 7.3,3, which is a free update for all 7.xx users. We encourage you to install this maintenance release over your existing version of Help+Manual.
At the same time we have also released version 3.41 of the Help+Manual Premium Pack with three small but important corrections. See further below for details.
If you have installed the latest Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU), you might notice a general slowdown in some situations, not just with Help+Manual, but with a large range of Windows software including Microsoft’s own tools and utilities. One particular situation, where this can be observed is the publish options configuration page for MS Word export. Opening this page on Win 10 FCU might have taken several seconds, it looked as if Help+Manual had frozen:
Version 7.3.3 fixes this problem and should revert to normal speed.
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.3.3 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
This update includes these three fixes:
You can download the Premium Pack update with the link and credentials you received when you purchased. If you no longer have these please contact support and we will send you a copy.
Posted by tim green on October 30, 2017
This update to the Help+Manual Premium Pack add-on adds replaceable SVG sprite icons to the user interface. It also adds a few refinements to the V3 skins and the Toolbox utility, tidies up some of the CSS and squashes a couple of small bugs (crunch crunch crunch). It is a recommended update for all Premium Pack users.
See the Premium Pack information page for general details and purchase information and the Premium Pack web-based documentation for full instructions.
Posted by Alexander Halser on September 7, 2017
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we have released a maintenance update for Help+Manual 7.3,2 and the Premium Pack 3.35. We encourage you to install this maintenance release over your existing version of Help+Manual.
Please download the update to Help+Manual 7.3.2 from our download page and install over your existing installation of Help+Manual.
Together with the Help+Manual 7.3.2 maintenance update we are pleased to announce the release of Premium Pack 3.35. This update introduces a new set of V3 skins for Help+Manual’s increasingly popular EWriter help format. The new skins bring V3’s lighting-fast topic browsing to EWriter, along with a wide range of advanced functions.
See the Premium Pack Change Log for a full list of changes and improvements in this update.
You can download and install the updated version with the same download link and installation password from the mail you received when you purchased your copy of Premium Pack 3. If you no longer have this please contact support@ec-software.com and we will help you out.
See the Premium Pack product page for more details on Premium Pack 3 and visit our online store to purchase.
Posted by Alexander Halser on August 31, 2017
As you probably know, we have been a proud sponsor of the Delphi Developer Days for several years and would like to remind you that DDD 2017 is coming!
Tour dates
Chicago, Illinois | Sepember 25-26, 2017 |
Antwerp, Belgium | October 9-10, 2017 |
Frankfurt, Germany | November 27-28, 2017 |
Detailed information and registration
http://www.delphideveloperdays.com/
Posted by tim green on June 28, 2017
Smartcat is a cloud-based translation ecosystem that is already widely used, supporting both advanced machine translation and translation by traditional human translators, or a combination of the two. Recently, customers have started asking the staff at Smartcat whether the system could process Help+Manual XML topic files. They looked into it, contacted us for the specifications and the result is now a working beta version that is ready for testing.
If you are looking for alternative ways to translate your Help+Manual documents you are invited to participate in the free beta test of the new Smartcat system. Pavel Doronin and his team would really appreciate your feedback and suggestions for possible improvements.
You just need to register an account at Smartcat, or use your existing one if you already have one. Then send a message to the Smartcat support team at support@smartcat.ai with a request that you want to enable Help+Manual support in your account.
Currently you can import individual/multiple XML files (both topic files and TOC files), not entire projects. You can then translate them yourself, assign them to a translator or apply machine translation. Both H+M’s traditional XML and the new TidyXML introduced with version 7.3 are already fully supported.
Full project import may be added in a future update. Any and all other suggestions you may have are very welcome, of course.