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

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.

Filed Under: PubAssist News, Release Notes Tagged With: v5.1, v6.0

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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Filed Under: PubAssist Features, PubAssist News, Release Notes Tagged With: v5.1, v6.0

Quick Support Links

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