Downloads

For an overview of the new features in Publishing Assistant 6.1, see What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1. If you are not a registered Paratext or Publishing Assistant user, see the Registration information page.

Compatibility of Publishing Assistant 6.1 with older versions

Publishing Assistant 6.1 will work directly with jobs created in Publishing 6.0.

Publishing Assistant 6.1 or 6.0 cannot work directly with jobs created by PA 5.0 or 5.1 or earlier versions, since these jobs belong to an earlier Paratext 7 project environment. To continue work on an earlier job created with 5.0 or 5.1 the associated Paratext projects need to have been migrated to Paratext 8 or newer, and then the relevant PA job can be migrated also.

It is usually best not to upgrade Publishing Assistant to a new version while you are currently at work on a typesetting project. It is better wait until any current projects are completed.

System Requirements

To use Publishing Assistant 6.x, Paratext 8 or newer must already be installed on your system and your Paratext user account must have authorization for use of Publishing Assistant.

Paratext and Publishing Assistant require Windows 7 or later with 8 GB of RAM. Publishing Assistant 6.x requires a 64-bit OS. 32-bit versions of Windows are not supported.

Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6.2 or higher is highly recommended. Having an earlier version might significantly reduce PA’s performance.

Publishing Assistant 6.0 works with Adobe InDesign versions from CS 2 to ID 2020, although features for Custom Layout (e.g. typesetting study Bibles) requires InDesign CS 5.5 or newer. InDesign also requires significant computer resources, and for this reason 8GB of RAM in your computer is the recommended minimum.

Current Version 6.1

Installing Publishing Assistant

Download and install the base Installer .exe file. Then download and install the latest Patch .msp file. If you do not already have Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6.2 or higher, an installation package is available for download here, for convenience.

Files

Type	File Name	Date Modified	Size

exe	Microsoft NET Framework 4 6 2	8:28 pm 08/26/2020	59.1M
msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 20	12:29 pm 10/19/2020	9M
exe	PublishingAssistant 6 1 100 1 Installer	12:15 pm 08/27/2020	132.3M

Previous Updates

Type	File Name	Date Modified	Size

msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 2	11:01 am 08/28/2020	8M
msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 3	12:15 pm 08/31/2020	9M
msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 5	12:14 pm 09/21/2020	9M
msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 16	10:51 am 10/12/2020	9M
msp	PA Patch 6 1 100 20	12:35 pm 10/19/2020	9M

Previous Versions

Publishing Assistant 6.0

Publishing Assistant 6.0 and 5.1 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. See What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.0 and 5.1.

Type	File Name	Date Modified	Size

exe	Microsoft NET Framework 4 6 2	5:43 pm 12/11/2019	59.1M
msp	PA Patch 6 0 100 199	11:58 am 09/21/2020	8.1M
exe	PublishingAssistant 6 0 100 1 Installer	5:43 pm 12/11/2019	31M

Publishing Assistant 5.1

Type	File Name	Date Modified	Size

exe	Microsoft NET Framework 4 6 2	5:43 pm 12/11/2019	59.1M
PUD	PA5 Base 5 1 100 1	5:43 pm 12/11/2019	57.9M
PUD	PA5 Update 5 1 100 197	11:53 am 09/21/2020	8.2M

Publishing Assistant Beta

Publishing Assistant 7.0 is under development but currently there are no alpha or beta versions available.