Manula Changelog: What's New in the Manula software

Based on a report from one of our clients, we have fixed several Web Accessibility problems in the live online manuals, so that these manual pages are now fully ADA Compliant.

Due to a mistake in our content security policy that we updated yesterday, all embedded Youtube videos were showing up as “Content is blocked”.

Luckily, one of our clients reported the problem early, so that would fix it. All Youtube videos are now showing up again.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused!

Up till now, the generated PDF files were limited in the font types that could be used. In particular, only fonts that were installed on our server would be used in the PDF version.

We have now improved the PDF generator and made it possible to also use Google Font. So if you have used the Manual Settings to use a Google Font for your manual, or if you use Google Fonts through Custom CSS, now these font will actually be used in the Generated PDF version too!

Enjoy

Several users have contacted us about problems searching their manuals. We investigated and found that search indexes had grown to the point where our search engine was running out of memory.

We have now updated our server configuration to allow more memory for the search engine, which has resolved the problem.

If you still encounter problems searching, please let us know!

Today we upgraded our server and at the same time upgrade most of the server software to newer version, for both performance and security reasons.

Bot the Manula admin and the live online manuals should feel a bit “snappier” now.

Enjoy!

All images in your live online manuals are being served by a dedicated server that scales images on demand, then delivers them through the AWS Cloudfront CDN.

However, that image scaling server has been having problems in the last few weeks, especially during peak hours. Which has caused some short downtimes already.

So we have now upgraded that server, basically doubling its processing power.

Enjoy!

Manula client Rebecca is using Manula manuals in a mobile embedded browser environment that does not support multiple browser tabs. Which was causing problems with Manula’s external website links, which always opened in a new tab, by default.

So Rebecca’s request was to make this “new tab behaviour” optional.
Sure, no problem, there now is a new setting for this in the Settings screen, Customization tab, under “Topics”:

Another improvement for the live online manuals, suggested by our loyal client Allyson, of SIOS Technology Corp.

When you click a topic link, from one topic to another, the Table of Contents on the left now auto-scrolls to make the new selected topic visible. The same now happens when using the Next / Previous Topic links at the top or bottom of your topics.

Enjoy!

Added today, thanks to Vytautas Tamulis of CityPro, the user interface texts for the live manuals are now also available in Lithuanian.

(user interface texts automatically switch over with the language setting of your manual)

Small fix to the topic search engine within the Manula admin system:
When searching for a phrase using double quotes, the phrase search did not work correctly.

All good now, the admin search now returns the exact same results as the live manual search.

Thank you, Ernesto, for reporting this!