Hi all,
I've released HTML Help Builder 5.08 today, which is primarily a maintenance release.
About Help Builder
Help Builder is an easy to use documentation generation tool that uses Markdown and a live synced preview to let you quickly and interactively build help content. The editor lets you focus on your content, with easy to type Markdown text along with a set of toolbar helpers to make it easy embed content and markup text. You can easily embed images via the clipboard, the image picker or the built-in screen capture. Cross topic links are easy with the topic picker and code snippets can be easily formatted and displayed with syntax colored code. Output can be generated to a self contained static and mobile friendly Web site that's ready to be copied to a Web site, or you can create CHM help files or Word or PDF documents.
Version 5.08 background
Help Builder's been on the backburner for quite a while up until recently, and in this release I spent the last few weeks going through the bug and quirk lists and cleaning up tons of little issues and nits. As most of you know I use Help Builder for most of my documentation, and I'm my worst complainer-in-chief, because I'm probably my biggest active usage customer 😃
Anyway a lot of issues have been fixed. Among the updates is an update to the latest version of ACE Editor (for the Markdown editor) which have fixed a number of internal issues related to scrolling and occasional performance blips. With this version the editor is a lot more stable for performance and stability as well as providing a smoother typing experience. Compared to plain text boxes both speed and visual appearance of the editor is a joy (especially if you compare side by side).
There are a few other notable improvements:
- New VS Code Dark Editor Theme
- Many template improvements and style cleanups
- New base topic icon set that works both on light and dark backgrounds
- A new Document Outline in wide (1400px+) Web views
- Configurable Editor Line Height (which is surprisingly useful!)
- JSON Exports of your Help Builder Project File
- Support for .NET 4.7 and .NET Standard Library Imports
For more detail about these updates check out the full what's new document in the docs:
So check it out. If you're upgrading from a previous major or minor version make sure you update your templates as the base templates have changed and some of the new Web view features rely on those changes.
To get Help Builder go to:
Aloha,
+++ Rick ---
