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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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December 10, 2019

Improved Custom Layout – PA 6.1

Publishing Assistant 6.1 will provide a significantly improved and more flexible interface for creating and configuring custom page layouts.

This update focuses on 2 major areas: 

  1. An improved interface for creating and defining the content for page frames.
  2. More flexible options for organizing multiple marker types within a single frame.  
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December 10, 2019

USFM 3 Support – PA 6.1

Scripture translation projects working in Paratext 9 can choose to use new and updated USFM markup available in USFM 3. Publishing Assistant 6.1 has added support for USFM 3.

This article presents a summary of new USFM 3 markup which you may encounter when typesetting a project from Paratext 9 (or newer). It is not an exhaustive summary of USFM 3 changes, but focuses on the changes and additions which will be of particular interest to a Bible typesetter.

For a complete list of changes in USFM, please refer to the release notes found in the online USFM documentation.

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  • 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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