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ePublisher Q3 2008 Release Notes
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Improvements
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Documentation
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The documentation has been completely rearchitected and redesigned.
With this release, you can access the content in several forms:
* docs.webworks.com
This new Wiki provides all the product documentation content in Wiki form,
where it can be extended and updated over time for 2008.3.
* PDF files
The Evaluation Guide, Design Guide, and Writer Guide provide complete
information focused for the needs of each audience. You can get these
PDF files from docs.webworks.com.
* WebWorks Help
When you click Help in the product, ePublisher displays a comprehensive
help system that includes all the information from the books. The help
also provides context-sensitive information and descriptions of each
field on each window.
FrameMaker
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* Adapter configuration: FrameMaker run-time version select
* Improved control over FrameMaker process during startup and conversion
* Workaround for FrameMaker crashes during large project conversions
* Proper handling of escaped character sequences, e.g. \x13, when processing
FrameMaker 8 documents
Word
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* Adapter configuration: Word RD field behavior
* Corrected an issue with Zapf Dingbats character set processing
* Character style overrides applied at the paragraph level now identified
and processed correctly in all cases
DITA
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* Adapter configuration: DITA-OT version select (1.2 or 1.4)
* Upgraded DITA-OT 1.4 from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2.1
* Correction to whitespace handling when processing a mix of nested inline
and block level DITA elements
* Proper identification of list item styles when content is inconsistently
nested inside block level DITA elements
Formats
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* Wiki
* MediaWiki markup and deployment
* MoinMoin markup and deployment
* Deployment
Extensible deployment architecture controlled by ePublisher formats
Invalid Defects
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The following defects were found to be invalid after further research::
EPUB15 ePublisher locks-up with FrameMaker documents containing
PostScript code
Fixed Defects
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List of defects fixed in this release::
EPUB5 FrameMaker crashes during large conversions
EPUB6 Unable to cancel during FrameMaker startup
EPUB24 PDFs show conditional text colors when created from
FrameMaker documents
EPUB25 Auto-map "Navigation Title" markers
EPUB28 DITA link pool processing should breakdown links by type
EPUB29 Update DITA-OT to 1.4.2 release
EPUB32 Application titles impact usability - All "WebWorks ePublisher
Platform"
EPUB33 Change Format to Target for logical consistency
EPUB34 Unable to share access to filemapping.prefs and deploy.prefs
EPUB35 DITA JDK version check fails for certain JDK releases
EPUB36 Symbol and Zapf Dingbats character map issues
EPUB37 Eclipse Help viewer does not support character entity
EPUB38 Group level PDFs fail to preserve auto-rotate landscape pages
EPUB39 DITA list item processing incorrect in certain cases
EPUB40 Table column widths not preserved in output HTML
EPUB41 Platform should share Deployment and Filemapping preferences
per user
EPUB42 DITA: Index shows "Default" in alpha list at top
EPUB43 Add Input adapter configuration UI
EPUB44 FrameMaker version selection
EPUB45 Single application behavior fails when more than one ePublisher
Platform application open
EPUB46 Enable custom deployment development
EPUB47 Wiki - MediaWiki
EPUB48 Wiki - MoinMoin
EPUB52 Extend page templates to support condition blocks and access to
attribute values
EPUB54 Update help docs
EPUB57 Implement wwsetting replacement string
EPUB59 Update handling of evaluation materials to use WEZ approach
EPUB60 PDF view options not preserved in group level PDFs
EPUB61 JavaHelp titles should be set in merge settings, not
"helpset-title"
EPUB62 Printable reports show up as pages
EPUB63 Remove unused Palm setting "palm-result-file-name"
EPUB64 WebWorks Help 5.0 changes for WebKit support
EPUB65 Update context-sensitive help links
EPUB66 Missing automatic mapping of WhatIsThisID and WindowType markers
EPUB67 FrameMaker 8 not handling ascii hex escape sequences properly
Includes fixed defects from the July 2008.2p1 update::
EPUB2 Eclipse Help viewer locks Output directory
EPUB4 Installer fails on "http" handler misconfiguration
EPUB7 Oracle Help fails compilation
EPUB8 JavaHelp fails compilation
EPUB9 Evaluation stationery is broken for Dynamic HTML outputs
EPUB10 Eclipse attribution missing from documentation
EPUB11 FrameMaker "index out of range" errors
EPUB12 FrameMaker 8.0 does not emit 7.0 MIF as 7.x does
EPUB13 Invalid whitespace handling in output from certain DITA source
documents
EPUB14 Default filename markers take precedence over user defined filename
markers in DITA content
EPUB15 ePublisher locks-up with FrameMaker documents containing PostScript
code
EPUB16 WinHelp: Table cells with multiple paragraphs not formatting
correctly
EPUB17 Evaluation Express projects have incorrect path to stationery
Includes fixed defects from the August 2008.2p2 update::
EPUB18 IE7 with XML+XSL output does not render images in table cells
EPUB20 FrameMaker emits non-standard MIF syntax for custom math elements
EPUB21 Improper generation of output files when project path contains
pound (#) characters
EPUB22 Inconsistent escape handling of URLs within the WebWorks Help
runtime
END OF NOTES FOR VERSION 2008.3
