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Multiple Author Support
RoboHelp HTML Converter
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All Help Features

Features

Content Creation and Import

• Legacy Project Converters – quickly and easily convert RoboHelp, HTML Help, WinHelp, and Doc-To-Help 2000 Projects - Using a Wizard, you can convert legacy projects with a few clicks. You can convert RoboHelp HTML, RoboHelp Word, HTML Help, WinHelp, and Doc-To-Help 2000 projects.

• Powerful single-sourcing with conditions - Use Doc-To-Help’s built-in conditions for powerful single-sourcing. It is possible to conditionalise text, topics, or even entire documents. In addition, you can conditionalise by output type, project, and by fully-customisable attributes.

• Content Variables - Using Variables, you can manage content in one place for reuse across your project. Text Variables can be used for any amount of unformatted text; Rich Content Variables allow you to store formatting along with text.

• Configure Help elements with styles -- Links, jumps, pop-ups, and more - Use convenient toolbars to effortlessly apply styles that translate into Help elements (pop-up topics, links, dynamic text, cross-references, and more) when you build your project.

• Quickly integrate graphics and Movies - Easily insert images and Flash movies in your project. Add hotspot links to images using the Image Map Editor.

• Context Sensitive Help mapping in a snap - Breadcrumbs help end-users pinpoint their location in a Help file. Doc-To-Help's HTML-based outputs (NetHelp, HTML-Help, HTML 2.0) include breadcrumbs that are fully customizable and removable.

• Configurable Breadcrumb Navigation - Automatically generate context IDs, or specify your own, to map topics to your application’s interface.

• Organize Topics with Expanding/Collapsing Sections - Increase the readability of your online Help topics by including collapsible/expandable sections complete with "+" and "-" icons. Doc-To-Help makes this as simple as applying a style; no special code is needed.

• Insert Dynamic Text Effects into Help - Impress your end-users with expanding, drop-down, and pop-up text.

• Automatic and Customisable Table of Contents and Index - Doc-To-Help can use information from your source content to automatically create a table of contents and an index. Customize them to your liking or create your own from scratch. You can even create customized TOCs for different outputs.

• Easy Glossary creation/integration - Use the convenient toolbar buttons or styles to add and sort glossary terms. If you wish, Doc-To-Help can automatically create a link to the glossary definition every time that term is used in your Help project.

• Control the look and feel of your Help - Use the Theme Designer to control the layout and appearance of topics for HTML-based platforms. NetHelp themes include print/email topic and save-to-favourites options to improve the user experience.

• Built-in or Custom Templates - Choose from a variety of templates for producing high quality print documentation. You can modify the built-in templates or use your own.

• Built-in Style Sheet Editor - The new Style Sheet Editor allows you to edit and manage your HTML styles in an intuitive Microsoft Office 2007 style interface.

• Margin Notes that work in both print and online - Add margin notes in Word with the click of a button. These notes can be designated to appear as pop-ups in online Help.

• Merge Multiple Projects - Combine multiple projects into one TOC, index, and glossary.

• Modular Table of Contents Utility - Automatically populate all modular system Help files with fully functional table of contents links.

• Team Authoring Support - Doc-To-Help’s source control technology provides integrated check-in/check-out functions so multiple authors may contribute to one project.

• Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 System Support - Doc-To-Help supports Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2007.

Publishing

• Web Publishing made easy - ComponentOne NetHelp is our exclusive Cross-Platform HTML output. Easily create a searchable Help system designed for deployment on the Web.

• One-click XHTML Output - Doc-To-Help now generates XHTML versions of all HTML based outputs (NetHelp, HTML Help, Help 2.0, and JavaHelp). The content generated complies with the W3C transitional XHTML specification.

• Industry Standard Help files - Create virtually every popular Help output. Chose from Web-based Help, HTML Help, Help 2.0, JavaHelp, and WinHelp.

• Powerful Print Output Features - Create professional printed documentation from Word or HTML source complete with a customizable title page, table of contents, index, and glossary – without any adding field codes, page breaks, or headers/footers. You can automatically create a print-ready PDF manual and skip the manual-to-PDF conversion process.

• Generate PDFs Two Different Ways - Doc-To-Help produces printed manuals in .PDF and/or Word format. Generate your .PDF directly from Doc-To-Help or from a generated .doc file. This gives you the option to format your manual before you generate the .PDF. No need for third-party utilities either.

• Section 508 Compliant Output - Doc-To-Help creates a version of NetHelp that is Compliant with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

Advanced Developer Features

• Microsoft Sandcastle Plug-in - Microsoft's Sandcastle utility automatically creates MSDN formatted reference documentation from .NET source code and XML comment files. Doc-To-Help integrates Sandcastle's XML output into your projects, automatically creating topics, index, TOC, and other Help elements. You can build on this information by editing/adding your own topics, and linking to namespaces. This content integrates with the Help system in Visual Studio .NET (Help 2.0).

• Command-Line Support - Build a Doc-To-Help project from the command line.

• XML Transforms - Use XSLT or .NET to add your own topic features in XHTML-based outputs.

• Scripting Support - Use Visual Basic to create custom scripts and assign them to styles to develop your own features.