For Mac OS X:

1.5.1 Release:

[Upd] - Preferences code has been reworked with new improved methods and more descriptive error handling messages.

[Opt] - If PDF Publishing fails due to a TOC Topic's Source Path that points to an invalid or missing HTML file, then the displayed error message now lists both the problematic TOC Topic's Name and it's failed Source Path.

[New] - Easily delete a selected Source File, TOC Topic, or Workshop Item by pressing the "Delete" key.

[Fix] - When adding a new editor to the Editor menu or adding a new viewer to the Preview menu, the select dialog window now opens to the Applications directory (instead of the default desktop folder).

[Fix] - When adding a new editor to the Editor menu or adding a new viewer to the Preview menu, the select dialog window now only allows you to select an application.

[Fix] - The TOC Contextual Menu is now accessible from either a selected Chapter or a selected Page Topic.

1.5 Official Release:

[New] - PDF Publisher: HTML background colors and table colors are now published to PDF.

[New] - You can now drag and drop an HTML file from the Source Files column onto the Table of Contents column to add it as a new TOC topic.

[Fix] - Fixed a bug in the Apple Help, MS HTML Help, and Web-based Help Publishers when publishing a TOC with no chapters.

[Opt] - Optimized a few internal methods for more efficient performance.

1.5 Beta 3:

[Upd] - Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

[New] - PDF Publisher: PDF pages now include a header at the top of every page, displaying the Document Title and Page Number.

[Fix] - PDF Publisher: Page Size and Page Margins PDF settings are now fully implemented and operational. Custom Page Margin configurations now work properly with no text distortion.

[Fix] - Fixed minor bug where the main HelpLogic project window would sometimes open with the wrong Top position, placing it slightly underneath the Mac OS X Menu Bar.

[Fix] - Line feeds in the Notes field of Workshop Documents and Workshop URLs are now preserved correctly when saved and retrieved.

[Fix] - Made minor changes to how preferences are saved upon quitting HelpLogic.

[Opt] - The Help Menu has been modified, with some items moved to a more appropriate location in the Application Menu.

[Chg] - HelpLogic Help is now provided as native Apple Help on Mac OS X, and native CHM Help on Windows.

[Upd] - Added "Windows Vista" and "Mac OS X 10.5" to the Platform list in the Workshop Document window.

[Kis] - Small memory leak on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard when opening and closing some windows (such as the Publisher windows).

[Upd] - EHP Converter: Updated to version 1.1, with improved conversion of TOC data that contains unescaped amersand characters.

1.5 Beta 2:

[Fix] - Fixed icons display bug in the Visual TOC Builder.

1.5 Beta 1:

[New] - Mac OS X Edition of HelpLogic is now a Universal Binary!

[New] - PDF Publisher: HTML rendering is now powered by the native WebKit on Mac OS X and the Internet Explorer engine on Windows, so all standard HTML tags and CSS styles are now supported and render correctly when publishing your HTML help pages to PDF!

[New] - PDF Publisher: You now have the option to assign your own custom HTML page as the PDF's Title Page. This allows you to add your own logos, imagery, and text styles to the PDF Title Page.

[Chg] - In order to provide support for Universal Binary and some planned future features, version 1.5 introduces a new improved .EHP project format. In order to use 1.5 and future versions of HelpLogic, you will need to convert your existing .EHP project files to this new EHP format using the free EHPConverter utility that is available for download.

[Opt] - The new EHP project format produces .EHP file sizes that are 90% smaller than the old EHP project format. For example, the HelpLogic Documentation's old EHP project file was 3.4 MB, but after converting it to the new EHP format, the file size is now only 12 KB.

[New] - All publishers (Web-based Help, Apple Help, MS HTML Help, UniHelp, and PDF) now support an unlimited number of sub-level nested chapters within chapters in your published TOC.

[New] - The Visual TOC Builder includes new icon buttons for "Source File", "Keyword Tags", and "Description Tag". Single click on a Topic's "Keyword Tags" icon or "Description Tag" icon to view that Topic's keywords or description respectively in the bottom status bar. Single click on a Topic's "Source File" icon to view that Topic's source file path in the bottom status bar. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) on a Topic's "Source File" icon to Edit or Preview that HTML file. Double-click a Topic's "Source File" icon to open it in your default editor.

[Opt] - The Visual TOC Builder, Project Workshop and Help Publishers are now powered by a new XML engine for improved functionality and performance.

[Opt] - More than 80% of HelpLogic's codebase and interface has been redesigned and reoptimized for improved ease of use, faster performance and future extensibility.

[Opt] - HelpLogic now uses 40% less RAM than previous versions.

[Opt] - PDF Publisher: All code has been completely rewritten from scratch with optimized error handling and much faster publishing speed.

[Opt] - All toolbars have been redesigned with a new toolbar engine, native menus, and improved rendering. The media viewer has also been improved.

[Opt] - All HierPop menus have been replaced with faster, native contextual menus.

[New] - Now includes full preview and publishing support for UniHelp 3.0.1.

[New] - Web-based Help Publisher: If your web site already has an index.html file in the same directory where you want to place your help files, you can now select the new "Use Alt. Main Filename" checkbox to publish indexhelp.html as the main page filename of your help system.

[New] - Table of Contents Chapters can now be empty during the authoring process (although obviously, you would not want any empty chapters when publishing). The old restriction that prohibited you from deleting or moving the last child out of a chapter has been removed.

[New] - When creating a new project, the Table of Contents is now empty by default. No more "starter" chapters and pages to later delete.

[Fix] - Drag & dropping a TOC topic to the very end of the list (after the last row) no longer causes an Out of Bounds error.

[New] - Since some users may not have permission to save files to the primary applications folder, HelpLogic's "Code Plugins" and "Page Templates" folders are now automatically stored in the user's "Application Support" folder (Mac OS X) or "Application Data" folder (Windows).

[New] - In the Source Files list (Main Project Window), new custom file icons are displayed to help visually differentiate between HTML files, CSS files, JavaScript files, Text files, etc.

[New] - Web-based Help Publisher: To help clarify the multi-functionality of the Logo Margin menu in the Logo Options section, if the Text Title option is selected, then that menu is labeled "Text Margin" menu. If the Image Logo option is selected, then that menu is labeled "Logo Margin" menu.

[Opt] - Text messages listed in the bottom status bar of the Main Project Window are now more descriptive.

[Fix] - Fixed an odd XQL/XPath bug in all Publishers that would sometimes publish an old cached version of the TOC. The new workaround solution reloads the XML data in memory to flush out any cached data, reflecting only the latest TOC version in published help formats.

[Fix] - The Registration window no longer displays an error message when attempting to upgrade from the Limited UniHelp Edition to the Full Edition of HelpLogic.

[Fix] - UniHelp Publisher: Restricted XML characters (such as ampersands) are now properly escaped when generating the XML-based Index.

[Fix] - When importing old 1.x UniHelp pages into a new HelpLogic project, the generated TOC now properly escapes amersands and other restricted XML characters.

[Fix] - Deleted or moved projects are now automatically removed from the "Open Recent" list (upon the next launch of HelpLogic).

[Chg] - With UniHelp 3 now available, older UniHelp versions (2.1 and earlier) are no longer supported, so preview and publishing options for those obsolete versions have been removed from HelpLogic.

[Chg] - Since UniHelp 3 now supports standard HTML/CSS, the special UniHelp Page Editor is no longer needed and has been removed from HelpLogic. The built-in HelpLogic Code Editor (or any external editor) can be used for creating HTML pages for all supported help formats.

[New] - New UHScript Code Plugin has been added to the HelpLogic Code Editor to provide UniHelp users with UHScript hyperlink support.

[Chg] - With the toolbars replaced with a new toolbar engine, the Toolbar Views submenu has been removed from the Window Menu. The new toolbars now only have one view option: icons with text labels.

[Kis] - Known Issue (Mac OS X): Setting Page Size and Page Margins during PDF publishing is not yet fully implemented. If Page Size and/or Page Margins are changed from their default settings, then PDF pages may look a little distorted. To prevent this distortion, leave the page setup on default settings (8.5" x 11" US Letter). This will be fixed for a future release.

For Windows XP/Vista:

1.5 Beta 1:

[Upd] - Improved compatibility with Windows Vista.

[Chg] - In order to provide support for some planned future features, version 1.5 introduces a new improved .EHP project format. In order to use 1.5 and future versions of HelpLogic, you will need to convert your existing .EHP project files to this new EHP format using the free EHPConverter utility that is available for download.

[Opt] - The new EHP project format produces .EHP file sizes that are 90% smaller than the old EHP project format. For example, the HelpLogic Documentation's old EHP project file was 3.4 MB, but after converting it to the new EHP format, the file size is now only 12 KB.

[New] - All publishers (Web-based Help, Apple Help, MS HTML Help, UniHelp, and PDF) now support an unlimited number of sub-level nested chapters within chapters in your published TOC.

[New] - The Visual TOC Builder includes new icon buttons for "Source File", "Keyword Tags", and "Description Tag". Single click on a Topic's "Keyword Tags" icon or "Description Tag" icon to view that Topic's keywords or description respectively in the bottom status bar. Single click on a Topic's "Source File" icon to view that Topic's source file path in the bottom status bar. Right-click on a Topic's "Source File" icon to Edit or Preview that HTML file. Double-click a Topic's "Source File" icon to open it in your default editor.

[Opt] - The Visual TOC Builder, Project Workshop and Help Publishers are now powered by a new XML engine for improved functionality and performance.

[Opt] - More than 80% of HelpLogic's codebase and interface has been redesigned and reoptimized for improved ease of use, faster performance and future extensibility.

[Opt] - HelpLogic now uses 40% less RAM than previous versions.

[Opt] - All toolbars have been redesigned with a new toolbar engine, native menus, and improved rendering. The media viewer has also been improved.

[Opt] - All HierPop menus have been replaced with faster, native contextual menus.

[New] - Now includes full preview and publishing support for UniHelp 3.0.1.

[New] - Web-based Help Publisher: If your web site already has an index.html file in the same directory where you want to place your help files, you can now select the new "Use Alt. Main Filename" checkbox to publish indexhelp.html as the main page filename of your help system.

[New] - Table of Contents Chapters can now be empty during the authoring process (although obviously, you would not want any empty chapters when publishing). The old restriction that prohibited you from deleting or moving the last child out of a chapter has been removed.

[New] - When creating a new project, the Table of Contents is now empty by default. No more "starter" chapters and pages to later delete.

[Fix] - Drag & dropping a TOC topic to the very end of the list (after the last row) no longer causes an Out of Bounds error.

[New] - Since some users may not have permission to save files to the application's folder in Window's "Program Files" directory, HelpLogic's "Code Plugins" and "Page Templates" folders are now automatically stored in the user's "Documents" folder (Windows).

[New] - In the Source Files list (Main Project Window), new custom file icons are displayed to help visually differentiate between HTML files, CSS files, JavaScript files, Text files, etc.

[New] - Web-based Help Publisher: To help clarify the multi-functionality of the Logo Margin menu in the Logo Options section, if the Text Title option is selected, then that menu is labeled "Text Margin" menu. If the Image Logo option is selected, then that menu is labeled "Logo Margin" menu.

[Opt] - Text messages listed in the bottom status bar of the Main Project Window are now more descriptive.

[Fix] - Fixed an odd XQL/XPath bug in all Publishers that would sometimes publish an old cached version of the TOC. The new workaround solution reloads the XML data in memory to flush out any cached data, reflecting only the latest TOC version in published help formats.

[Fix] - The Registration window no longer displays an error message when attempting to upgrade from the Limited UniHelp Edition to the Full Edition of HelpLogic.

[Fix] - UniHelp Publisher: Restricted XML characters (such as ampersands) are now properly escaped when generating the XML-based Index.

[Fix] - When importing old 1.x UniHelp pages into a new HelpLogic project, the generated TOC now properly escapes amersands and other restricted XML characters.

[Fix] - Deleted or moved projects are now automatically removed from the "Open Recent" list (upon the next launch of HelpLogic).

[Chg] - With UniHelp 3 now available, older UniHelp versions (2.1 and earlier) are no longer supported, so preview and publishing options for those obsolete versions have been removed from HelpLogic.

[Chg] - Since UniHelp 3 now supports standard HTML/CSS, the special UniHelp Page Editor is no longer needed and has been removed from HelpLogic. The built-in HelpLogic Code Editor (or any external editor) can be used for creating HTML pages for all supported help formats.

[New] - New UHScript Code Plugin has been added to the HelpLogic Code Editor to provide UniHelp users with UHScript hyperlink support.

[New] - Added new "Preview" sub-menu to the "Source Files" column's contextual menu in the Main Project window (Windows).

[Chg] - With the toolbars replaced with a new toolbar engine, the Toolbar Views submenu has been removed from the Window Menu. The new toolbars now only have one view option: icons with text labels.

[Fix] - Line feeds in the Notes field of Workshop Documents and Workshop URLs are now preserved correctly when saved and retrieved.

[Fix] - Made minor changes to how preferences are saved upon quitting HelpLogic.

[Fix] - When creating a new HTML file in the Source Files column, a proper HTML file extension is added to the filename, even if the user forgets to include it in the saved filename.

[Chg] - HelpLogic Help is now provided as native CHM Help on Windows.

[Upd] - Added "Windows Vista" and "Mac OS X 10.5" to the Platform list in the Workshop Document window.

[New] - You can now drag and drop an HTML file from the Source Files column onto the Table of Contents column to add it as a new TOC topic.

[New] - Easily delete a selected Source File, TOC Topic, or Workshop Item by pressing the "Delete" key.

[Fix] - When adding a new editor to the Editor menu or adding a new viewer to the Preview menu, the select dialog window now opens to the Applications directory (instead of the default desktop folder).

[Fix] - When adding a new editor to the Editor menu or adding a new viewer to the Preview menu, the select dialog window now only allows you to select an application.

[Fix] - The TOC Contextual Menu is now accessible from either a selected Chapter or a selected Page Topic.

[Kis] - 1.5 Beta 1 (Windows): The PDF Publisher is currently under development, so PDF publishing in this Beta version has been disabled. A new improved PDF Publisher will be included in a future beta release.