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)

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.