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December 10, 2019

What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1 Beta

Last updated: March 2, 2020

General Improvements

An improved and more flexible interface for creating and configuring custom page layout configurations. (PA-1343)
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 an a fully Unicode aware environment.

July 25, 2018

PA 6.0 and 5.1 Released

The stable release of Publishing Assistant 6.0 is now available for all PA users (as 6.0.100.1). In order to install PA 6.0 you need Paratext 8 installed on your computer. Please keep in mind that PA 6.0 requires 64-bit Windows on your computer.

For those who decide to stay with Paratext 7 there is an opportunity to upgrade to Publishing Assistant 5.1 (as 5.1.100.1). Read the Upgrade and Migration FAQ page to find out more about PA 6.0 and 5.1.

Here is the full list of new features of PA 6 and 5.1.

You can find the install file and updated user manual on the Download page.

May 1, 2017

What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.0 and 5.1

Publishing Assistant 5.1 and 6.0 contain identical features. Publishing Assistant 6 is required for working with Paratext 8 or newer projects. Publishing Assistant 5.1 works with Paratext 7 projects. Both versions can safely coexist on your computer.

Here is a comprehensive list of what you can expect if upgrading from version 5.0:

General Improvements

Major refactor of the code used to convert the Paratext project files into InDesign format. This code in previous versions of PA was written in Python 2.4 and it has all been converted to C# .Net version 4.
Numerous unit tests added to improve the integrity of PA before it is released to the field.
Numerous bug fixes, enhanced exception/bug reporting.

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What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1 Beta

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