XMetaL® Author Enterprise 12.0 Release Notes

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XMetaL® Author Enterprise 12.0 Release Notes

Contents

• Introduction
• New features
• Bug fixes and minor enhancements
• Known issues
• Support services

Introduction

XMetaL Author is the leading authoring application for organizations using any XML document type, including complete support for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, or DITA. XMetaL Author also helps you maximize content reuse through tight integration with content repositories, and address advanced publishing requirements with an extensible publishing framework.

With this version, the DITA authoring experience can be configured using a SubjectScheme ditamap including setting up allowable conditional text and attribute values with optional validation control. The Conditional Text user interface was reworked to support named groups. The Map Editor has various improvements including being more keyboard friendly. The DITA Open Toolkit bundled with the software was updated to v2.4.4. As with every major release, we have addressed various customer-reported bug fixes. For a complete list of new features, see New features.

New features

DITA Subject scheme configured authoring experience

XMetaL Author automatically configures the authoring experience using your Subject scheme map’s controlled values. For attribute and element/attribute bindings, the controlled values will automatically populate the dropdown list in the general purpose Attribute Inspector pane and the Map Editor Attribute Inspector pane. Controlled values are also tested against during XML validation actions.

For more information on DITA Subject schemes and controlled values, see the DITA 1.3 spec section 2.2.3 Subject scheme maps and their usage.

New and improved Conditional Text feature

XMetaL Author now allows you to modify your conditional text settings directly within the software, including the ability to bind a collection of conditional text settings to a particular DTD. Also new for the conditional text feature is the ability to create groupings akin to groupings in your DITAVAL files.

XMetaL Navigator window

Navigating around the XMetaL Author user interface with its numerous tool windows and MDI document tabs was difficult using just the keyboard. With the XMetaL Navigator window, it is now possible to move keyboard focus easily to another document or tool window.

The Ctrl+Tab key will activate the popup XMetaL Navigator feature. Holding down the Ctrl key and repeatedly pressing the Tab key will move your choice from window to window. Simply release the keys once you have chosen the window you want to move keyboard focus into.

Map Editor support for <topicset> and <topicsetref>

XMetaL Author now provide first-class support for creating <topicset> and <topicsetref> markup in your DITA maps. We provide UI to aid in selecting a target <topicset> ID.

Improved Map Editor keyboard accessibility

Further enhancements were made to the improve the Map Editor’s keyboard accessibility. The Tab key will move through the various widgets of the Map Editor and its adjoining Attribute Inspector. Pressing the Space bar key will invoke a toolbar widget with focus.

Many other common shortcuts are supported for actions, such as Undo/Redo along with edit actions like Cut/Copy/Paste and Delete.

DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.4.4

The DITA Open Toolkit (DOTK) v2.4.4 release, which continues to extend support for DITA 1.3 along with numerous bug fixes (over DOTK v2.2.4 and v2.0), is integrated with this software release and enabled by default. The software also includes the DITA OT 2.2.4 and 2.0 releases for customers still on DITA 1.2 or requiring the previous DOTK for output purposes.

Please review the install-readme for details on how to switch between DOTK versions.

More table editing features for custom table models

For custom table models, you can now run the built-in Sort and Fill operations. Previously, these operations were only available for HTML and CALS tables. We have also enabled the software to allow for splitting and merging of custom tables along with operations on multi-cell selections within custom tables.

Third-party components

This version of XMetaL Author Enterprise embeds the following third-party components, used for generating output from XML content (publishing):

• DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.4.4. This version of XMetaL Author Enterprise has been tested with DITA Open Toolkit version 2.4.4. Please refer to the 3^rd party software’s website for more details: http://www.dita-ot.org/2.4/release-notes/index.html
• DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.2.4. This version of XMetaL Author Enterprise has been tested with DITA Open Toolkit version 2.2.4. Please refer to the 3^rd party software’s website for more details: http://www.dita-ot.org/2.2/release-notes/index.html
• DITA Open Toolkit Release 2.0. This version of XMetaL Author Enterprise has been tested with DITA Open Toolkit version 2.0. Please refer to the 3^rd party software’s website for more details: http://www.dita-ot.org/2.0/readme/changes/rel2.0.html
• RenderX XEP 4.18.  Please see “%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\SoftQuad\XMetaL\Shared\renderx\doc\WhatsNew.txt” for more information about RenderX.

Bug fixes and minor enhancements

XMetaL Author Enterprise 12.0

Feature	Description
API	Document.TagsOnGraphicalTables property added to allow toggling graphical tables display using script.
API	ResultsManager.AddWebTab method extended with optional 3rd parameter that allows overriding default Internet Explorer settings via GetOptionKeyPath.
API	Selection.Find.Execute method would crash or do nothing when passed a text string with a length of 249 or more characters.
Architecture	64-bit version could crash after running script on Windows 8/10 systems.
Architecture	64-bit version could crash after running XFT form on Windows 8/10 systems.
Architecture	Cross-file operations were not UAC-savvy when configured to process XML with a DTD (versus well-formed).
Configuration	silentCheckinMode sharepoint.xml configuration option added to automate check-in version assignment and suppress UI that prompts user for this info.
Editing	Attribute value change lost after clicking back into document window.
Editing	Deleting text and closing document afterwards causes GPF.
Editing	Add A-Z sort option that matches Excel’s sorting exactly.
Image support	Inserting SVG image with namespace causes script error or hang, limited svg namespace support added.
Map Editor	Script error displayed after attempting to open specialized map file into new Map Editor.
Output	When DITA map references topic on network drive, xref and image references within the topic are not visible in output after DOTK processing.
Output	No content is visible for a topic or map located on a network drive after DOTK processing.
Output	Browser back button broken for DITA Open Toolkit WebHelp output in all browsers except Internet Explorer.
Output	<topicset> and <topicsetref> usage in DOTK 2.4.4 cause incomplete output.
Refresh References	<xref> is not updated with topic title when title has @conref.
Refresh References	SVG image not displaying if referenced via @conref, @conkeyref or @keyref attribute.
Refresh References	SVG image not displaying when inside a reusable component.
Schematron support	Schematron output result does not display Unicode characters properly.
SGML support	SGMLDECL catalog directive ignored and .dcl file extension not recognized.
Table editing	Don’t duplicate @id value on entry elements when inserting rows or columns in a DITA table.
Table editing	Table properties dialog does not update properly after moving selection in a CALS table with @width not set.
UI	Some CSS fonts used to style paragraphs/blocks would end up truncating content at the end of paragraphs whenever a Tab character was present.
UI	Key Space Manager dialog is now resizable.
UI	Change tracking tooltip appears on 2nd screen of dual-monitor system.
UI	Jscript with Unicode text constants for XFT button labels displaying as question marks.
UI	Middle mouse button click on MDI document tab will close the corresponding document.
UI	Attribute Inspector option to sort required attributes to the top.
UI	Attribute Inspector option to sort attributes with a value to the top.
WebDAV support	WeDAV LOCK request failed if MSXML6 installed.

XMetaL Author Enterprise 11.0

Feature	Description
API	WritePermittedContainer API failing when used inside ReadOnlyContainer node.
Configuration	File Save and Save As dialogs don’t respect file extension settings from Tools.Options dialog for new documents.
Conref support	Allow referenced content to be imported in-place when detaching a conref as single action.
Documentation	Shortcut keys documented for switching between documents was wrong since the UI for the application was updated in 8.0.
Editing	Rendering is wrong and confusing after deleting part of nested tracked changes.
Editing	Parameter entity in internal subset is dropped.
Editing	Pasting partial element causes a crash or the clipboard locks up.
Editing	Typing <Enter> deletes element to the left of insertion point.
Key support	When two keyscopes have the same name, the key-based reference to the key under the 2nd keyscope is not resolved.
Key support	If a key is defined within the Insert Web Link dialog and the <xref> refers to a key, the Open Referenced File action does not open the external web site.
Refresh References	Empty <linktext> is not updated when updating references.
Refresh References	Element with @conaction specified should not be part of refresh reference processing.
Saving documents	Entity reference removed from internal subset after saving.
Table editing	Follow CALS table spec for @valign attribute on row, thead, tbody, tfoot elements.
Table editing	Adding topicmeta to a reltable causes reltable to stop rendering as a table.
Table editing	Deleting table column does not mark document as dirty (modified/changed).

XMetaL Author Enterprise 10.0

Feature	Description
API	Selection.IsMultiCellSelection property returns true if multi-cell table selection.
API	Selection.Cells property returns DOMNodeList for multi-cell table selections.
API	CanElement.DisplayName property returns string of the nice name configured for an element via CTM file.
Architecture	Multiple xmetal.exe processes are present after checkout from Documentum Webtop.
Architecture	“Unable to activate print component” error message occurs when running on terminal server.
BiDi authoring	Typing a <Backspace> while both “Enable bi-direction text support” and “Check spelling while typing” are enabled crashes.
Configuration	Crash occurs when auto-save option is enabled with a low change count.
Conref support	Modifying @conref’s target that is under XMetaL-connector control would append new fragment to the old fragment instead of replacing the old fragment portion of the URI.
Conref support	Tooltip of attributes for resolved conref target not merged as per OASIS DITA 1.2 specification section 2.1.3.5.
DITA authoring	Inserting reltable with source/target choice yields custom and vica versa.
DITA authoring	Shortcut element needs styling, should be underlined.
DITA authoring	After inserting column into DITA simpletable, insertion-point/selection is set into the last column of table.
Editing	Deleting a collapsed tag removes root element instead.
Editing	Sorting a DITA <dl> element causes a crash.
Editing	Popup element list does not use the DisplayName as configured in the CTM file.
Editing	Typing <Esc> would not abort the current Attribute Inspector edits and instead would commit those edits into the document.
Map Editor	Menu text in Map Editor can appear tiny while rest of editor is OK.
Map Editor	Setting navtitle in Map Editor results in invalid markup and topicmeta inserted in wrong position.
Map Editor	Map Editor inserts @id attribute on root element even when auto-id preference is off.
Output	DITA content managed in Documentum always fails to generate output with the DOTK 2.0. The validation stage of output generation, which defaults to always run unlike the DOTK 1.8 which defaults to no run, considers all the dctm: attributes as invalid because they are not declared in the DOTK copy of the DITA DTD files. Change the DOTK 2.0 default to not run the validation stage.
Output	All fonts in PDF output are Helvetica, no Courier (monospace).
Output	XMetaL Enhanced PDF via RenderX deliverable outputs wrong font.
Output	Single HTML File deliverable should support HDF, HDR and FTR parameters like Multiple HTML files.
Output	WebHelp output’s table-of-contents is broken whenever a topic title contains < or >.
Refresh References	Closing a DITA topic after refreshing references prompts to save file even though no edits were made to the DITA topic.
Refresh References	F11 does not find broken links when there is PCDATA between <xref> tags.
Spell checking	Canadian English spell check should accept “program” and “programs” as correct.
Spell checking	French spell check should treat “aujour’dui” as one word and correctly spelled.
Spell checking	“Resume” function starts from beginning if edits occur inbetween which is not the same behavior as it was in version 4.0.
Table editing	Closing a document while the Merge Cells dialog is open causes a crash.
Table editing	Splitting table that contains multiple footer rows crashes.
Table editing	Splitting an HTML table that does not have <tbody> crashes.
Table editing	Multi-level sort in table does not work as expected.
UI	Some accelerator keys in various dialogs don’t work.
UI	Some accelerator keys in the Table menu are repeated and don’t work.
UI	Common shortcuts like Ctrl+V to paste and Delete key are not working in dialogs.
UI	XMetaL Form Toolkit (XFT) dialogs display poorly on high DPI monitors.
UI	Toolbar auto-layout would dock one toolbar per row and is inefficient. Now toolbar auto-layout will dock multiple custom DTD-specific toolbars per row upon first-time launching the software or after resetting the workspace.

XMetaL Author Enterprise 9.0

Feature	Description
API	Custom global menu button caption is lost after opening a document.
API	Hiding Desktop tab via startup script crashes.
API	Custom global toolbar button’s tooltip text is not displaying after opening a document.
API	Add API for joining tables.
API	Add API for splitting tables.
CSS support	Support CSS properties – border-top, border-bottom, border-right, border-left.
Configuration	Empty.gif (blue diamond) no longer loaded by default; must use INI setting.
DITA authoring	Tools->Dita Options cannot be opened when ActiveDocument is read-only.
Editing	Undoing drag’n’drop or cut/copy and paste actions required doing Undo twice.
Map Editor	Conref’d titles not visible in Map Editor.
Output	PDF2 / PDF3 output should support <navtitle> element as per DITA 1.2.
Output	Add fix to Webhelp output CSS file to support Chrome and Safari.
Table editing	Inserting element into THEAD in custom CALS table model, then undoing, results in application crash.
Table editing	Insert Rows duplicates ID value in DITA.
Table editing	Add menu items for joining tables.
Table editing	Add menu items for splitting tables.
Validation	Validator complains about comment inside empty element, does not allow insertion either.

XMetaL Author Enterprise 8.0 Service Pack 1

Feature	Description
API	Application.DisableToolbarContextMenu() did not disable the toolbars context menu.
API	DITA specialization extender override for OnSpecializeCommandBars method not called.
Connector	Error message displayed if Open Referenced File attempted on external html resource and DITA topic is under control of a XMetaL connector.
Cross-file operation	Default file extensions for cross-file operations are not all processed.
Documentation	install-readme.html contained obsolete information for silent installing.
Find in Files	Some acceleration keys do not work in the ‘Find in Files’ dialog.
Find in Files	Operation across folder (versus ditamap) only works on XML files.
Find in Files	An exception error was displayed when Find in Files progress window was closed by clicking the close window button (i.e. ‘X’).
Map Editor	Fixes script error in MapEditor when switching to XML view and map has UTF-16 encoding declaration.
Map Editor	Closing a ditamap with unsaved changes resulted in a script error.
Refresh References	If Reference Checking panel was visible prior to closing down XMetaL, the application would crash.
Refresh References	References not refreshing when configured to use DITA 1.1 DTDs.
Replace across Files	Replace action does not invoke checkout action beforehand.
Replace across Files	Replace action with Paste as Strict configuration causes unwanted RLX files to be generated. XMXMLControl.dll is not UAC-savvy.
Result window	Items are lost after checking or unchecking (IE10 only).
Spell checking	Right-click spell checking menu item suggestions always disabled.
Spell checking across Files	Improved overall performance by caching certain working variables and using non-live DOM nodes list.
Validation	External parameter entity resolving to wrong location of master DTD instead of parent file.
Obsolete hotfixes in XMetaL Author Enterprise 8.0 SP1	The following hot fixes are made obsolete with the installation of 8.0 SP1 and should no longer be used: xmee_80_20130408.mcr xmee_80_20130416.mcr xmee_80_20130418.mcr xmee_80_20130423.mcr These files were provided to a select number clients and would have been installed on top of a standard installation of XMetaL Author Enterprise 8.0 by you or your organization. If you installed any of these hot fixes, one or more of the files listed above will be in the following folder: <XMetaL Installation Path>\Author\Startup\ To “uninstall” these hot fixes, simply delete the file(s).

XMetaL Author Enterprise 8.0

Feature	Description
Configuration	DITA Configuration: Turn OFF Pretty-Printing macro not working.
Editing	Adding title element to reltable breaks formatting in Tags On / Normal views.
Editing	Editing Status bar text summary of DITA conditions not displayed.
Editing	Inserting row(s) into a reltable (DITA) takes longer than expected.
Editing	Double clicking on <xref> without @scope attribute should prompt for type of xref
Map Editor	Map Editor does not pull in conref’d content from a topic’s title element.
Opening documents	Crash occurs when opening file(s) with many large PNG images.
Output	Auto-insertion of empty <linktext> element inside <link> in <related-links> breaks output.
Output	WebHelp does not follow and expand conref items from titles into ToC, and @locktitle is also ignored.
Saving documents	@display attribute is removed from all DITA docs when saved to file.
Validation	Incorrect XSD validation when “” (empty string) is allowed as enumerated attribute value.

XMetaL Author Enterprise 7.0

Feature	Description
CALS table model support	Inserting a <table> using Element List leaves out required @cols for <tgroup>.
CALS table model support	Modified CALS table model triggers invalid <spanspec> insertion.
Change Tracking	Custom processing instructions are deleted or altered instead of integrating them into a Change Tracking PI.
Conref support	Conref domain checking gives wrong results for DITA 1.2.
Editing	Drag and drop image from UNC path inserts bad href value.
Editing	CSS change broke Enter key behavior to insert new <indexterm>.
Editing	Slow editing behavior for Enter key in DITA in tables.
Image support	Crash occurred rendering a PNG with “sRGB chunk”.
Installer	App Path registry key incorrectly set
Output	PDF output for Chinese and Japanese shows no text by default.
Output	Cannot print SVG because <UseBmpPrinting/> is missing from CTM.
Refresh References	Double click word followed by period with no space selects word + period
Saving documents	XMetaL Author does not prompt to save “dirty” documents.
Saving documents	“Undo past save” feature broke ActiveDocument.Saved API (and UI). System would still prompt user to save.
Spell Checking	Spelling mistakes are flagged for content marked with xml:lang=”zxx”
Spell Checking	“Default” spell check user-word-list (UWL) is ignored when user adds word via context menu.
UAC-savvy and per-user settings	Documents opened directly into Plain Text view do not trigger RLX generation in %appdata%.
Validation	Validating document or selection does not catch processing instruction target that contains illegal characters.
Validation	Document with processing instruction that does not contain a target validates (yet should not).
WebDAV support	Locking a file on WebDAV server fails if http response body returned has no length specified (i.e. compound response).
XML namespace support	Cannot create new doc or open existing doc because adding default namespace without checking for ancestor namespace declarations.

XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0 Service Pack 1

Feature	Description
Closing XMetaL when modified, invalid document is open.	Closing the XMetaL application window no longer causes XMetaL to crash if a modified, invalid document is open.
Backspace/Undo causing intermittent crashes	Entering Backspace or clicking Undo no longer cause crashes.
DOMNode.hasChildNodes API and the absence of child nodes	Code has been adjusted such that DOMNode.hasChildNodes API no longer returns random results if there are no child nodes.
Adding a #FIXED attribute to the DTD using script	Calling the API method addAttribute() in a script in order to extend the DTD would cause a crash when the 5th argument (intDeclType) was passed the value sqDTFIXED (or the equivalent value of 3). This issue no longer occurs and the sqDTFIXED value can now be used safely.
Background Spellchecker issue	XMetaL Author would crash shortly after launching Note: This only affected clients that upgraded from 5.x to 6.0, not clients with a “fresh” installation of XMetaL Author 6.0. Several spell checking DLLs were not updated by the installer. At run time, XMetaL Author would try to invoke new code that did not exist, triggering a crash The installer has been corrected so that this no longer occurs.
Deleting content with tracked insertion and deletions	In some cases the background SpellChecker could cause a crash while working with Change Tracking. This issue occurred while deleting content containing tracked insertions and deletions. The issue has been addressed.
Change tracking processing instructions in long text lines	Previously, a change tracking PI may have been broken at an incorrect location when a line of text was too long.
Plain Text view line length limitation	Lines longer than 4077 characters did not render when a document was edited in Plain Text view. This limitation has been removed. We still recommend enabling and properly designing Pretty Printing for the customization associated with a particular schema. This will aid authors by allowing them to see most of their content at one time, avoiding the need to scroll horizontally. In addition, extremely long lines may also slow down editing while working in Plain Text view.
Using XML namespace, track changes corrupts document	The Track Changes feature was introducing unwanted namespace prefixes into deletions. This has been corrected.
xml:lang=”xx” and Spell Checker	xml:lang=”xx” was being ignored by Spellchecker (where “xx” is any unrecognized value). This problem has been fixed. When xml:lang is set to an unrecognized value (one for which there is no spell checking dictionary and that has not been remapped in the INI settings) expected behavior is to use the default language as set in the spell checker’s options. With an out of the box installation the default language is “English”. With an out of the box installation (no INI settings) elements are not spell checked when the specific attribute value xml:lang=”zxx” is set.
‘Edit in XMetaL’ option opening all selected files in Windows Explorer	Selecting multiple files in Windows Explorer and selecting ‘Edit in XMetaL’ now opens all selected files. XMetaL Author should now open all files when any standard Windows operation triggers the operating system to run the main XMetaL program (EXE) and pass a list of filenames to it.
Input of an invalid attribute value using Attribute Inspector	Using Attribute Inspector to change an attribute of type ID to a value that is invalid now consistently prompts users to confirm the change.
Per-user file read/write failure when %appdata% mapped to UNC path	Per-user folders and files are now created on a shared server when the Windows %appdata% system path variable is redirected to a UNC path.
File > Save operation intermittently creating zero byte files	Code has been adjusted such that an issue involving the File > Save operation creating zero byte-sized files is no longer present.
Scrolling in document with high of number spelling mistakes	Performance has been improved for scrolling through a document with a high number of spelling mistakes
McAfee ScriptScan feature triggering crashes in XMetaL Author	An issue that caused intermittent crashes when authoring DITA documents with the McAfee ScriptScan feature enabled has been fixed.
Accept/Reject All performance	Performance of the Accept All and Reject All change tracking actions have been improved. Previously, for some documents these actions would take a long time to complete. Performance is now much faster.
Cursor placement and CSS :before/after	Cursor placement and movement now behaves as expected when CSS :before/after is present in a CSS customization file.
Multiple cell table selection	Selecting multiple cells by clicking during drag and drop now works as expected. Previously you had to first select the content inside a cell before selecting multiple cells. This bug was triggered by the new “Check spelling while typing” feature.
Obsolete hotfixes in XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0 SP1	The following hot fixes are made obsolete with the installation of 6.0 SP1 and should no longer be used: xmee_60_20100723.mcr xmee_60_20101102.mcr xmee_60_20101116.mcr xmee_60_20101223.mcr These files were provided to a select number clients and would have been installed on top of a standard installation of XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0 by you or your organization. If you installed any of these hot fixes, one or more of the files listed above will be in the following folder: <XMetaL Installation Path>\Author\Startup\ To “uninstall” these hot fixes, simply delete the file(s).

XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0

Feature	Description
Chameleon schema include support	XMetaL no longer requires included schemas to declare a targetNamespace that matches the including schema’s targetNamespace
Proper Windows IME positioning	Support of the Windows IME for entering Japanese/Chinese/Korean has been improved.
File->New event macro	Code adjusted such that File->New event macro is run before other, newer macros to maintain backward compatibility
Setting CSS text-decoration property to “none”	CSS inheritance is blocked if the element has text-decoration=none
Suppression of warnings on loading RLX file	An INI variable has been introduced to detect if an .rlx has been generated
Inserting content no longer removes existing revision marking	Adding text between normal content and content surrounded by revision marks caused revision marking to be removed in XMetaL 5.5. This is no longer the case.
XMetaL hangs when text selected in TagsOn or Normal view without releasing mouse for 5 sec. in a document opened via drag and drop.	In XMetaL 5.5, XMetaL hung after selecting text in TagsOn or Normal view without releasing the mouse for 5 seconds in a document opened via drag and drop. This has now been fixed.
File->Exit macro	XMetaL Author now supports running multiple “File->Exit” macros.
Schema: valid attribute value containing a space	Schema: valid attribute value containing a space no longer causes a validation error
CSS border setting in one element causes crash after deleting another node	CSS border setting in one element no longer causes a crash after deleting another node in Normal view.
EPS image causes XMetaL to crash or fail to load or render XML document	XML document failed to render when it included a reference to a particular form of EPS file, possibly causing XMetaL to crash. Did not happen for all EPS file types. This has been fixed.

Known issues

Shortcut key doesn’t work after moving focus to Map Editor with XMetaL Navigator

Shortcut key doesn’t do anything after moving focus into the Map Editor using the XMetaL Navigator feature. To work around this, please press the <Tab> key once and try your keyboard shortcut again. If it still doesn’t work repeat pressing <Tab> key and trying your shortcut key until you get some action.

WebDAV lock cannot be obtained for document just opened

When a document is opened from a WebDAV server into XMetaL Author Enterprise, an error message maybe displayed stating that the WebDAV lock could not be obtained. This issue is due to the DITA MapEditor feature preprocessing the document’s XML with our XMetaL XML processor (XMXML). XMXML contains a lot of the same code as XMetaL Author including the WebDAV locking logic and as such, XMXML ends up obtaining the WebDAV lock first.

To work around this issue, the DITA options must be changed so that ditamap files open into the XML view by default. To change this setting, select the Tools > DITA Options… menu item and activate the Map Editor tab. On the Map Editor tab, adjust the “Open DITA maps in the:” dropdown list so that “XML view” is selected. Click OK to accept the changes and restart XMetaL.

Note: The DITA feature does not support WebDAV out-of-the-box. A WebDAV capable XMetaL connector is required to use the DITA feature with a WebDAV server.

The x64 Cameras In Focus and Meeting Minutes samples have some features that don’t work

A few of the Cameras In Focus and Meeting Minutes sample’s features rely upon Microsoft components that do not have an x64 equivalent (e.g. MSScript.ocx, MSCAL1.ocx). Yet other features rely upon a x64 version of Microsoft Word to be installed on the computer. In the x64 version of the software, these samples have been removed from the Help > Samples submenu to avoid issues. You can still invoke either samples template but please use caution when running these samples as they may not gracefully degrade when invoking features with a dependency on these 3^rd party items.

DITA for Publishers outputs are disabled

The D4P outputs (i.e. Kindle, ePub, et al) are currently disabled because the plugin is not compatible with the DITA Open Toolkit version integrated with XMetaL. The timeframe for a new D4P plugin release is not known at this time.

When using DITA 1.3 XML schemas, reusable component feature is disabled

XMetaL’s reusuble component feature has not been setup for the DITA 1.3 XSDs. As a result, related menu items like Reuse > Create Reusable Component are disabled.

Built-in toolbar auto-layout on first launch

When XMetaL Author is started for the first time, the built-in toolbars will each be docked on a separate row. Custom DTD-specific toolbars will be docked more efficiently (i.e. multiple per row) providing there is enough horizontal space to do so. Once toolbars have been reorganized (by dragging them around), their positions will be remembered. This vertically oriented auto-layout for built-in toolbars will also take effect any time the XMetaL Author workspace is reset, which is done by holding the Ctrl key down at startup.

Child submenus/menu items not copied when moving top-level menu buttons

Moving top-level menu buttons will not copy the child submenus or menu items. Similarly, moving submenu items will not duplicate those child items.

Support services

For a list of telephone support offerings, online service options, and support downloads, visit http://xmetal.com/support/.

To contact XMetaL support directly, e-mail us at [email protected], or telephone us at one of the numbers listed at http://xmetal.com/content-about-contact-us/.

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