Help Authoring Tool and Helpbreeze Html Help/javahelp Edition Software for Windows

HyperText Studio, Help Edition
$199 - Olson Software Limited

The HyperText Studio is a WYSIWYG online Help and Web authoring tool that uses an Integrated Development Environment for visual project development. It has the same look and feel as other major Windows applications, reducing learning time. Create WinHelp, Web sites, HTML Help, and KeyHelp.
The WYSIWYG, HTML Source, ImageMap and Cascading Style Sheet editors let you create attractive and functional online Help projects and Web sites easily. Site and link management tools let you manage projects of any size effectively. Integrated site management and editor features make creating your content as simple as drag and drop.
Features include:
- Extensive support for HTML source code editing, such as code completion. The HTML Clean system lets you remove extra code in existing HTML pages created in other editors, including Microsoft Word. The HyperText Studio maintains your tags and attributes, ensuring the integrity of your data in both editors.
- Topic styles let you apply common content to multiple pages. When you make changes to the topic style's content, The HyperText Studio applies those changes automatically to all pages that use that topic style.
- Create and edit rollovers without touching any JavaScript.
- Create expanding regions in a totally WYSIWYG manner.
- Predictive linking saves development time.
- See all links into and out of a file with Link Management.
- Manage your project graphics on one tab.
- Use Find and Replace to search for and/or replace content. You can replace text with other text, or add links or keywords automatically.
- Many more features!
The HyperText Studio includes extensive tutorials to teach you how to learn and use the product effectively.

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Hotspot Builder
$39.95 - Divcom Software

Using screenshots in your application?s help files ensure that your program is very easy to learn. However, simple, screenshots, which just demonstrate your program working normally, are not enough. When users have problems, they prefer to avoid searching for a solution, but to instead get an answer immediately and then continue their work. Why not provide your users with that ability? How? The solution lies in using screenshots that include hotspots, which are special regions that can be clicked on by the user to display appropriate information.
Hotspot Builder is an extremely powerful application which lets you create and edit graphics files in Segmented Hyper Graphics (.SHG) format. This allows for storage of not only the graphical image, but the hotspot information as well. A .SHG file can, of course, be easily used in WinHelp (.HLP) and HTML Help (.CHM) systems. After compiling a .SHG file into a help file, the hotspots can operate as hotlinks to help topics, as pop-up links, or even as special macros.
However, Hotspot Builder is not just an editor of .SHG files; it is also a powerful tool for the creation of screenshots and for processing images. The program includes a variety of different screen capturing tools, which allow you to make efficient screenshots by capturing only the required elements?such as dialog-boxes, buttons, fields, and so on. There is no need to copy an entire window and paste it via the Windows Clipboard!
Hotspot Builder allows you to change image color-depth and also includes special features for preparing Segmented Hyper Graphics files to be used in HTML Help. The program?s straight-forward user interface, its different color schemes and internal browser for more convenient manipulation of hotspots, and its ability to be integrated with Help Development Studio (another of the Divcom Software help authoring products) make Hotspot Builder a simply indispensable member in your help authoring toolkit.
Download your FREE trial copy now!

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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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HelpStudio
$449 - Innovasys

HelpStudio provides you with an effortless way to create great help systems, which means that anyone who can use a word processor or HTML editor will be comfortable authoring help with HelpStudio. HelpStudio has been carefully designed to maximize your productivity whilst not requiring any knowledge of the technical aspects of help file compilation. You get to concentrate on pure content creation, saving time and money on every project.
Find and Replace, Spell check and Hyperlink verification can be run on the entire project, ensuring that your help systems need never ship with spelling errors or broken links. Build flags (conditional content) can be used to mark content, files or table of contents nodes in order to create multiple versions of a help system (perhaps a 'Lite' and a 'Professional' version) from the same project.
The features don't stop there. Additional tools include an image editor, integrated screen capture, a unique user interface screenshot markup tool, a popup help designer and help context id mapping Add-in for Visual Basic, integrated task management, a customizable content helper library (for automating the creation of common help content) all add up to the only Help Authoring toolset you will ever need.

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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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E.S.T. Help Author Pro
$79 - Bitvadasz Kft

EST Help Author Pro creates the most popular help formats from a single source

It supports the following output formats:

Ansi Text Manual, Unicode Text Manual, RTF Manual, HTML Manual, HTML Web Help, HTML Web Help with frames, HTML Web Help with JAVA support, Windows Help, CHM Help, Electronic Book (EXE)

Most important features of this software:

Professional Text Editor
Keyword and Index editor
Built-in live spell checker and thesaurus
Advanced font and paragraph formatting
Supports bullets and numbering
Table support
Built-in syntax high lighter for developers
Topic information export to so many different formats
Powerful Screen capture Tool
And so many other features...

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