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August 25, 2020

What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1

New Features

  • Custom Layout
    • A significantly improved and more flexible interface for creating and configuring custom page layout configurations (PA-1343)
    • Ability to group and order multiple note types within a single frame.
  • Basic USFM 3 support (not including support for Ruby). (PA-1354)
  • Automatically enabling InDesign Track Changes for new documents.
  • Support for importing PA 5.x jobs into PA 6.1. (PA-1334)
  • Ability to make a copy of a PA job into a new PA job. (PA-1338)
  • Option to open InDesign with a PA job loaded. (PA-1340, PA-1341)
  • Option to open InDesign from PA with the selected regional configuration enabled. (PA-1362, PA-1328)
  • Ability to restore a PA job from a debug backup. (PA-1339)
  • Option to select which books to export to Paratext / USFM (PA-1344)
  • Utilities for validating and producing Print On Demand (POD) compliant jobs for upload to the Digital Bible Library. (PA-1342)

General Improvements

  • Improvements for how \xt fields are broken into multiple lines. (PAS-1720)
  • Allow a user to specify a bottom inset spacing of zero for the notes frame. (PAS-1722)
  • Change tables (changes.txt, headerChanges.txt, captionChanges.txt, finalChanges.txt, undoChanges.txt) now run in a fully Unicode aware environment.
  • Support additional image formats when replacing low resolution JPGs from the project figures folder with high resolution images. PA now automatically places a .PDF, .INDD, .AI, .TIF / TIFF or .IDML file which has the same base name. (PA-1427)
  • Better default settings for Adjust Pictures tool (starts with adjust options disabled; sets the the current figure values of wrap and caption). (PA-1429)
  • Improved support for marginal verse numbers when using ID 2020.
  • Code modernization.
  • A general application performance improvement of approximately 20%.

Other Changes

  • InitialChanges.txt is not longer supported or required.
  • The default book name in headers will be the contents of \h, instead of being the short name in Paratext’s Scripture Reference Settings. 
    Note: this only affects the default book name. If a user specifies a book name source with a custom header code, like <bc.h>, <bcv.h>, <bc.s>, or <bcv.s>, then the source in the custom header code will prevail.
  • Provide better information when warning about template bundle changes (fewer false positives; indicate which files have changed). (PAS-1956)
  • Renewed user documentation.

Filed Under: PubAssist News, Release Notes Tagged With: v6.1

Quick Support Links

  • Scripture Typesetting Training – Sept-Oct 2022 (Online)
  • Getting Started
  • What’s New in PA 6.1
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  • Scripture Markup (USFM)

News and Updates

  • Scripture Typesetting Training – Sept-Oct 2022 March 23, 2022
  • What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1 August 25, 2020
  • What’s New in InDesign 2019–2020 December 10, 2019
  • Improved Custom Layout – PA 6.1 December 10, 2019
  • USFM 3 Support – PA 6.1 December 10, 2019

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