Create Help File and Helpbreeze Html Help/javahelp Edition Software for Windows

Help & Manual
$299 - EC Software GmbH

Help & Manual is a stand-alone authoring tool with an integrated WYSIWYG editor. It creates all types of standard help files:

* HTML HELP
* Visual Studio Help
* Winhelp (.hlp)
* Browser help
* PDF

Features:

* Various outputs
* One single source
* All outputs highly customizeable
* PDF manuals with active hyperlinks
* Image and screen shot tools included

Download the fully functional evaluation version to try Help & Manual for 14 days!

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PT DocuMaker
$0 - DocuMaker Communication Solutions

PT DocuMaker allows the software developer to easily generate pertinent application documentation. With PT DocuMaker, you can generate 20 different program support documents at the click of a button - documents like About.txt, Disclaimer.txt, Help.txt, Order.txt, Packing_List.txt, Requirements.txt, What's_New.txt and more! Simply fill in a form, press a button, and retrieve your documents through an easy to use interface! Copy and paste them into one file or a collection of separate files on your hard drive. Or copy and paste them as the content of your MS-DOS or Windows help file.

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HelpBreeze HTML Help/JavaHelp Edition
$199 - Solutionsoft

HelpBreeze HTML Help/JavaHelp Edition is a complete visual environment for creating Microsoft HTML Help (.chm) files as well as Sun JavaHelp files. HTML Help is Microsoft's online help system, and is the standard in Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. JavaHelp is Sun's standard system for providing online help in Java applications.

HelpBreeze HTML Help/JavaHelp Edition offers a powerful WYSIWYG HTML editor integrated with drag and drop tools for creating the table of contents, index and other elements of HTML Help systems. You can choose to use HelpBreeze's HTML Editor, or the product will integrate directly with the 3rd party editor of your choice (DreamWeaver, FrontPage, etc.) You can preview, compile and test your help files from within the authoring environment. HelpBreeze automatically generates the files required to link your HTML Help file to an application, and works directly with Visual Basic to make it easy to add HTML Help to your VB programs. HelpBreeze also allows you to automatically generate printed documentation from your help project so that you can create online help and a printed manual from the same source documents.

HelpBreeze has been one of the leading commercial help authoring tools since version 1.0 was released in 1993. Thousands of help authors use HelpBreeze, including many of the best known corporations, universities and government entities world-wide.

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MGTEK Help Producer
$395 - MGTEK

MGTEK Help Producer is a help authoring tool for Microsoft Windows that allows you to create professional HTML help files and web based content from a Microsoft Word document.

Help Producer is an add-in that is seamlessly integrated into the user interface of Microsoft Word, which makes authoring a help file as easy as writing a regular Word document. With a click on a button, Help Producer will analyze your Word document and generate all files necessary to build a help file, such as project files, table of contents files, index files, HTML topic files, and graphics.

Help Producer can take advantage of many of Microsoft Word's existing editing and formatting features, including colors, fonts, styles, lists, tables, embedded pictures or objects, and even auto-shapes. In addition to the ability to leverage off the authoring features offered by Microsoft Word, Help Producer has many innovative and exiting features that will help technical writers create professional help files.

As the first help authoring tool in the industry, Help Producer can generate help files from Microsoft Word documents authored with the document template MSDN20, a template provided with the Visual Studio Help Integration Kit (VSHIK); However, Help Producer can be customized to work with many other document templates.

Help Producer has support for the popular Microsoft HTML Help 1.0 format, as well as for the new Microsoft Help 2.0 introduced with Visual Studio .NET. A build-in project editor allows you to make changes to any properties found in Microsoft HTML Help 1.0 and Microsoft Help 2.0.

In addition to all standard features found in HTML Help, such as table of contents and index generation, we have added support for more advanced features, such as K-links and A-links, text popups, conditional topics, topic IDs, and much more.

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Help Explorer Viewer
$0 - HelpExplorer Software

Help Explorer Viewer is a help viewer for both Windows and Linux that gives you a way to use help files in Windows' WinHelp, MS HTML Help 1.x and MS Help 2.0 formats with your applications, no matter under which operating system - Windows or Linux - your applications are deployed. Since the Windows Vista has optional support of WinHelp files, Help Explorer Viewer comes in handy.

There is no more need to devise a new help format for Linux and build a viewer for it. Just prepare your Linux documentation in any of the generally adopted Windows help formats, distribute Help Explorer Viewer with your application and your users will be able to read the documentation under Linux as if they are reading it under Windows. The HTML engine that is built in Help Explorer Viewer renders topics retaining their original format.

A full range of the WinHelp API including the macro engine, popup windows, quick links, dynamic HTML and other features will be at your disposal as a software developer. You will also get a capability to view help collections to which your HTML Help 2 files are integrated.
Help Explorer Viewer can be activated from your applications using the API, which enables context sensitive help.

Help Explorer Viewer utilizes all of the search mechanisms that are available in Windows help systems. The table of contents, which is a hierarchy of topics in the order how the help author placed them. The index, which is a list of keywords that the help author associated with certain topics. And a common "key phrase" search, which is based on consequent scanning of all topics.
You can customize the user interface of Help Explorer Viewer as your needs dictate: you can create and hide windows, configure the toolbar and the main menu and dynamically redirect demonstrations of pages.

So, by using Help Explorer Viewer you will be able to provide your applications with a help system that is easy to use and effectively assists users in mastering your applications.

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fpHelp Builder
$11.95 - OLSOFT

Authors can use fpHelp Builder to create online help file for a software application or content for a multimedia title or web site. As an information delivery system, HTML Help is suited for a wide range of applications, including training guides, interactive books and electronic newsletters, as well as help for software applications.

Help-authoring tools from Microsoft do not provide easy and comfortable interface for creating and editing HTML files or managing content navigation structure. Fortunately, there are more suitable and powerful utilities such as Microsoft® FrontPage and fpHelp Builder. These programs not only allow you to design HTML pages and navigation structures of web sites, but also apply themes, manage links, receive reports, etc. In addition, the main advantage of this solution is that the user doesn't need to learn new software, but can use the already familiar one.

The fpHelp Builder is a very simple and powerful Microsoft FrontPage add-in that allows the conversion of a web site to a Microsoft HTML Help file (CHM file). The ability to work with FrontPage is enough to construct the Help file from any web site.

Once your web site is complete, you can compile it to create the final compressed help file (CHM file). As a help author, you manage the locations of your topic, contents, index, and other files. You can also modify the web site to match the design of your help system or can make other changes depending on the size and complexity of your system.

Instead of creating the traditional Help files you can convert any web site into a single compressed help (.chm) file which is the help standard for Microsoft Windows. After that you can distribute your sites as single units which could be manuals, Helps, guides, readme files, e-books, etc..

The main advantage of the fpHelp Builder is its simplicity and usability: in a few mouse clicks you will receive the CHM file from your FrontPage web site.

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