RoboHelp 2020 Update 5 now available

Adobe has released RoboHelp 15.0.5, also known as RoboHelp 2020 Update 5.

You can use Help > Check for Updates to install this latest build.

Here is a list of what has been added and fixed.

Adobe RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 5 focuses on enhancements to table properties, review workflows, ability to delete a review, enhancements to Frameless preset, and bug fixes. 

For more information, see What’s new in RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 5.

Authoring

• Sometimes, topic properties get corrupted. (Bug ID: 8945)
• Generic styles defined in the CSS file without tag name (like .red) is not listed in the Styles panel. (Bug ID: 9001)
• When editing the image size in the skin editor, the “unlink” button is not working as expected. (Bug ID: 8994)
• In the new topic creation dialog, the title does not get pre-selected (Bug ID: 8685)
• In TOC editor, the next item does not get highlighted after deleting any item. (Bug ID: 9122)
• Across sessions, the values of the Left and Right panel widths do not persist as expected. (Bug ID: 9027)
• On importing files with the same name as an existing file, there is no warning message. (Bug ID: 8838)
• Few table cell settings are not saved in the CSS editor. (Bug ID: 8325)
• In multilevel list after changing numbering size, the list can’t be aligned with the content. (Bug ID: 9143) 
• A class applied on li item is carried over to the paragraph after breaking the list. (Bug ID: 9132) 
• Applying a class on a single li item from the Styles panel is not possible. (Bug ID: 9131)
• Variables cannot be inserted in topic titles and index when any topic is open. (Bug ID: 9003)
• Duplicating an autonumber style produces an application error. (Bug ID: 9185) 
• You cannot specify negative values for margins. (Bug ID: 9197) 
• Margin component collapses automatically after expanding for the first time. (Bug ID: 9196) 
• Copy pasting text with image from Word does not paste the image in RoboHelp. The src is blank. (Bug ID: 9171) 
• If any topic has Shift_JIS encoding, then after upgrading from a classic project, an application error appears. (Bug ID: 9163) 
• The dimensions of a thumbnail are not getting saved as expected. (Bug ID: 9261)

Reports

• An application error occurs when deleting files from the Unused Files report. (Bug ID: 9030)
• There are a few formatting issues in the tables of reports like Snippets and Style Sheets. (Bug ID: 9023)
• The Date column in reports does not display in the format as specified by the OS. (Bug ID: 6784)

Source control

• In RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 4, you are unable to switch Git branches. (Bug ID: 9048)
• The password prompt for Git doesn’t work as expected on Windows. (Bug ID: 9097)

Translation

• The Google Machine Translation API isn’t able to authenticate as expected. (Bug ID: 9069)

Review

• When fetching review comments, there are intermittent refresh issues. (Bug ID: 9053)
• @ option for mentions does not work as expected in reviews. (Bug ID: 7615)

FrameMaker import

• Unable to import FrameMaker 2020 documents into RoboHelp 2020. (Bug ID: 9043)
• Importing from FrameMaker does not start a new topic on Style. (Bug ID: 8628)
• While importing a FrameMaker document, the mapped table styles aren’t getting into the book css file. (Bug ID: 6617)

Output

• Browse Sequences do not filter automatically if a topic is excluded from the output. (Bug ID: 8197)
• Black-colored borders appear in a Word output for table cell when the border color is set to transparent. (Bug ID: 8996)
• Titles that are too long do not display as expected in mobile view. (Bug ID: 9036)
• The Publish settings icon is missing from the Publish page in Responsive HTML5 output. (Bug ID: 9050)
• A Condition expression for an HTML5 output does not work correctly if the TOC contains bookmarks. (Bug ID: 6581)
• If no master page is selected in the first field, then the other master page options are not saved in the PDF preset. (Bug ID: 9106)
• While generating ouput, the deleted files from the output folder doesn’t go to the recycle bin. (Bug ID: 9112)
• In a Word output, large images do not shrink to fit in a table and get truncated. (Bug ID: 9137) 
• A dash gets added to PDFs with bookmarks. (Bug ID: 9067) 
• Breadcrumbs home label is not a hyperlink to go to the default topic. (Bug ID: 7674) 
• In a Frameless top navigation skin, if the top section is linked to a topic, then its children are not shown in the output. (Bug ID: 9119)
• For PDF and Word outputs, a variable used in a title does not get resolved. (Bug ID: 8991)
• The value specified in the Chapter title field does not appear in a PDF output. (Bug ID: 9028)
• Frameless and Responsive HTML5 outputs search also picks up text from script tags. (Bug ID: 9049)
• In an output, a UTF-8 with BOM encoding does not work as expected. (Bug ID: 9166) 
• Microsoft Edge does not appear in the list of browsers to preview on Windows. (Bug ID: 9243) 
• When setting the size of a logo, the skin editor expects the height and width of the logo to be the same. (Bug ID: 9220)

Publishing

• Unable to copy all files from Assets > Images folder while publishing to local file system (Bug ID: 9079)
• Publishing to Zoho Knowledge Base does not work for all regions. (Bug ID: 9041)
• When published to SharePoint output, the link to a PDF does not open as expected. (Bug ID: 9012)