Electric Butterfly has announced the release of HelpLogic 1.5 for Mac OS X, a help authoring solution for cross-platform developers. The tool includes an integrated Workshop, Visual TOC Builder, HTML Editor, and Link Manager to quickly generate Web-based Help, Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, UniHelp, and PDF. Version 1.5 includes more than 40 new features, enhancements, and bug fixes including Universal Binary status, and improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

The PDF Publisher now supports all standard HTML tags and CSS styles when publishing your HTML help pages to PDF and offers a new option to assign any HTML page as the PDF's Title Page, allowing you to customize the PDF Title Page with your own design. All help formats now support an unlimited number of sub-level nested chapters within chapters in your published TOC. There is also a new improved EHP project format that's 90% smaller than the old 1.0 EHP project format.

Further, HelpLogic is now powered by a new XML engine for improved functionality and performance. More than 80% of HelpLogic's codebase and interface have been redesigned and re-optimized for improved ease of use, faster performance and future extensibility.