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%.

• 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.