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We are pleased to announce the release of HelpSmith 3.3. The new version includes improved Unicode support, the possibility to use video clips in Flash and other formats, better security and compatibility of Web Help with recent versions of the Google Chrome browser, as well as some other new features and improvements. Below is the […]

Recently we’ve released a minor HelpSmith update, version 3.2.1. This new version adds an option Insert Mark of the Web for Web Help systems. Some HelpSmith users complained that Internet Explorer displays a yellow Security Warning Bar when viewing a web help system that runs from the local machine, or from a remote computer in […]

We are pleased to announce the release of HelpSmith 3.2. This new version introduces new features, includes important improvements and minor bug fixes. New Possibilities A completely new spell checking engine and dictionaries for different languages are now available. A new customizable Project Merge feature with support for different Merge Modes, making it possible to […]

We are pleased to announce the release of HelpSmith 3.1. This update includes improvements and minor bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes below. Improvements – Improved the HTML export engine used for the HTML Help and Web Help output formats. – Added new pre-built topic templates to the New Template dialog-box. […]

We are pleased to announce the release of HelpSmith 3.0. New Features – Added support for Templates allowing you to easily customize the design of all or a set of help topics of your project. – Added support for text Variables which can be used in the HelpSmith’s word processor and in almost any other […]

So we are pleased to annouce the release of HelpSmith 2.0. It took us some extra time to test out and prepare the final build in fact. However, now I can say that everything works just fine. Working on a help file with the brand new Dynamic Styles feature is nice. I think the users […]

Apart from the significant features such as the Web Help format (described in a previous post), we’ve also added a number of other useful tools that have been introduced with HelpSmith 1.5.1 and HelpSmith 1.5.2 recently. Automatic export of topic Context numbers If you are a C++, Delphi, or Visual Basic developer, you will find […]

We are pleased to announce the release of HelpSmith 1.4. The list of new features/improvements includes: Support for HTML Help windows. Now you can modify settings for the main HTML Help window and also create secondary ones with alternative size, position, or other options. HTML Help allows you to display any help topic in a […]