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ePublisher Q1 2008 Release Notes
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Improvements
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Workflow
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* Memory usage has been tuned for improved scalability.
* PDF bookmark and link issues addressed.
FrameMaker
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* FrameMaker 8 and condition expressions.
* ePublisher can generate non-English source documents with English
FrameMaker, as per ePublisher 9.2.1.
* PDF page counts now reset correctly when applied conditions "shorten"
source documents.
Word
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* Word 2007 support has been added.
* Improved handling of field level images.
DITA
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* Version 1.4.1 of the DITA-OT integrated.
* Existing projects use DITA-OT 1.2.1 and may be upgraded to use DITA-OT 1.4.1.
* Apache FOP upgraded to 0.94.
* XMetaL DTD specializations integrated by default.
Formats
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* Microsoft HTML Help 1.x
* Improved Popup sizing
* PDF
* Acrobat Distiller can be used for PDF rendering in place of GhostScript.
* TOC/Bookmarks now behave correctly in merged PDFs.
* Links for FrameMaker TOC and Index pages are now generated using
either the GhostScript render pipeline or Acrobat Distiller.
* Page destinations are now correctly determined in all cases.
* Now properly handle certain PDF links which previously would cause
generation failures of merged PDFs.
* WebWorks Help 5.0
* Improved Popup sizing
* Bookmarks can be created via traditional browser methods in
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox
* Search result display expands dropdowns.
Invalid Defects
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The following defects were found to be invalid after research by Development::
WWEP1433 Favorites tab is missing when WebWorks Help 5.0 help system is viewed
in IE 7.0 (latest version)
IE7 disabled saving of cookies to the "My Computer" zone. I have found
no way to enable this. Same goes for IE6 post XP SP2.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315933
http://surfthenetsafely.com/surfsafely6.htm
http://surfthenetsafely.com/ieseczone3.htm
WWEP2511 Title Page of the CHM file refers back to default if you change the encoding
and locale in format settings to anything other than the default.
CHM must be opened under OS running target locale for custom title to appear.
Fixed Defects
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List of defects fixed in this release::
WWEP612 Image Maps generated but not useful
WWEP1997 If a word is found in a drop down, clicking on a search results link
will not auto-open the drop down that is closed (Headings and Index
in TOC)
WWEP2365 Dropdown starting in a numbered list results in dropdown arrow
on the wrong line *Fixed
WWEP2380 Popup resizing works better with HTML Help, but still not well
enough -- It isn't getting the correct DIV height
WWEP2385 When you have conditional text is set to hide, in the output conditional
texts is removed but the page count is still the same.
WWEP2387 If there is a Drop-Down Hotspot applied to the bulleted list the
drop down arrow comes out the next line.
WWEP2411 Merged PDFs don't retain correct Bookmark structure
WWEP2430 We cannot generate foreign languages in an English Machine.
WWEP2451 Word Text Include fields are completely broken
WWEP2476 Remove @id attributes from XHTML outputs (found on images)
WWEP2493 Explicit Visible setting not retained for passthrough conditions in UI
WWEP2506 Help menu errors -- Product Registration and Tutorial links are incorrect
WWEP2513 If there is a font size with a decimal we dont round this value in
Winhelp and this causes issues in the output.
WWEP2514 In foreign languages index is busted, I have tested and verified with
Japanese Language.
WWEP2516 Popups in Internet Explorer 6 is no longer works.
WWEP2518 When you view WWH5.0 in Safari and FireFox the Next and Previous buttons
of the browser does not work however, online Help's Next and Previous
buttons work.
WWEP2519 Highlighting text in search results throws error in IE when result is clicked
WWEP2520 Space in custom map file name is escaped, resulting in invalid HHP and CHM
WWEP2521 Distiller PDF override results in incorrect linking from TOC
WWEP2522 Cross references don't seem to be working in PDFs generated from Frame docs
WWEP2523 Index is not being sorted correctly.
WWEP2525 Frame Adapter creates two <Style> blocks within a <Table> element to
hold table width
WWEP2526 Tool adapter appears to be processing the MIF incorrectly; Content sections
are printed in wrong order.
WWEP2536 FrameMaker Tool Adapter failing on Paragraph Formats when writing
WIF files on pristine Vista VM.
WWEP2537 WIF generation fails when source document has images
WWEP2541 Double clicking project file does not open ePublisher on Vista/XP
WWEP2544 If you apply a color fill to some table body rows all the table rows
inherit the color fill in the output.
WWEP2546 Express should accept a Stationery via the CLI
WWEP2548 ResampleWIF Pipeline Error Blocks Generation of Output
WWEP2549 WWHelp API on Vista launch issues
WWEP2550 Help documentation paths incorrect for non-English locales
WWEP2551 Futura font causes FML corruption and data loss
WWEP2552 Word 2007 support
WWEP2553 Frame 8 Condition Support
WWEP2554 Save As Stationery does not copy top-level Adapters and Helpers folders
WWEP2555 Integrate Acrobat Distiller generation option
WWEP2556 Enable .ditaval file settings per Target, Format
WWEP2560 Enable {RD} field processing options in Word
WWEP2563 DITA adapter should clear CLASSPATH
WWEP2567 Variables with character formats not generating correctly
WWEP2572 Integrate Printable Reports into mainline build
WWEP2573 Provide UI control over WWHelp Cookie ID
WWEP2575 Implement "wwtransform:super" resolution
WWEP2577 Integrate manifest embedding into build process
WWEP2578 Add product ID to webworks.com URLs
WWEP2579 It looks like when we create the MapID's for JavaHelp 2.0 we also add
the *.html to the end of each MapID.
WWEP2580 DITA links fails due to deeply nested file paths
WWEP2581 Eliminate duplication of images during DITA preprocessing
WWEP2582 Improve DITA structure processing
WWEP2583 Integrate XMetaL DITA specializations
WWEP2584 Upgrade Apache FOP to 0.94
WWEP2585 Address PDF extension limitations in old DITA-OT PDF target
WWEP2587 OutOfMemory exception thrown during Frame WIF generation
WWEP2588 Reduce ID lengths to lessen impact of 253 character path length
WWEP2590 Frame Adapter: Duplicate Key Exception
WWEP2591 Add license attribution for DotNetZip assembly
WWEP2593 Accented i characters í and ì are reversed in output
WWEP2594 ePublisher loops endlessly while processing "pages.xsl" in large projects
WWEP2596 Versions to quarterly release format, i.e. 2008.1
WWEP2600 Splash screen shows incorrect version and copyright
WWEP2603 New targets should default to format name
WWEP2605 PDF links in DITA sourced documents are lost
WWEP2606 DITA-OT 1.4 fix for "out of hierarchy" topic files
WWEP2607 DITA-OT 1.4 fixups and improved default styling
