HelpSmith 3.0

HelpSmith 3.0 is an innovative and versatile innovative help authoring tool that allows you to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help , PDF, and Printable Documentation using the same source. The reliable help authoring system provides a powerful Word-like Unicode word-processor for editing help topics with dynamic styles and live spell checker, advanced approach to working with graphical files, and many other useful tools.

HelpSmith, the help authoring tool from Divcom Software, enables creating help files and documentation from scratch and also allows you to import help topics from HTML, Word RTF, TXT files that can be written in different Unicode charsets.

Major Features:

1. Create professional help files, Web Help (with collapsible TOC and Search), Printed Manuals, and PDF documents from the same source.
2. Write help topics using the powerful WYSIWYG word processor with dynamic styles.
3. Easily customize help topics by using Templates and Variables.
4. Import your existing help projects from compiled HTML Help (.CHM) files, or from Microsoft® HTML Help Workshop (.HHP) format.
5. Import help topics from Microsoft® Word documents (.RTF), .HTML files, or ANSI/Unicode text files.
6. Insert and manage graphical images in your help files effectively as never before.
7. Check spelling as you type just like in Microsoft® Word due to the in-built spell checker feature.
8. Write help topics in multiple languages due to the complete UNICODE support.
9. Forget about broken links when you rename anything. HelpSmith will automatically correct all the modified references for you.
10. Intuitive and very easy-to-use interface. Write professional help files with NO need to learn anything.

Enhancements:

• New Features:
• • Added support for Templates allowing you to easily customize the design of all or a set of help topics of your project.
  • Added support for text Variables which can be used in the HelpSmith’s word processor and in almost any other text field. You can add your own variables and their values can contain nested variables, and so on.
  • Added the Non-scrolling Area feature allowing you to create permanent headers for help topics in HTML Help and Web Help systems.
  • A new customizable Breadcrumbs placeholder which is replaced with the path indicating the location of the help topic in the Table of Contents.
  • New Web Help features making it much easier to provide Context-Sensitive Help. Now a Web Help system created with HelpSmith includes built-in Java Scripts and allows you to use special URL parameters for calling a specific topic, etc.
  • Added support for the A-Keywords feature in HTML Help.
  • Hyperlinks can now use HTML Help macros such as KLink, ALink, etc.
  • Added a possibility to change the picture location via the Image Properties dialog-box, which is available by double-clicking on a picture in the word processor.
  • The improved “Find and Replace” tool. Now you can search topic and group titles and go to a topic by its Context or Id. These search features are also available from the Topic Browser dialog-box, making it easier to find a topic or template while working on a project.
  • The core of the HelpSmith’s word processor has been significantly improved. Now it works faster on large documents due to internal optimizations, includes minor bug fixes, and is more convenient in working, as a result.
  • The Media Repository window can now be displayed from the Project menu which is useful if you simply want to edit the repository, not insert a new picture to the editor.
  • Added a special Rich Text Format compatibility mode, which allows you to reduce the size of RTF files created with HelpSmith.
  • Improved user’s manual.
• Changes: The “Open” and “Save” commands have been moved from the “Topics” menu to the “File|Import” and “File|Export” menus respectively.
• Bug Fixes
• • Fixed a problem because of which the media repository could not be saved sometimes.
  • Fixed a bug which caused an error when generating the printed manual in case when the project had bookmarks with duplicate names.
  • Fixed a problem with bulleted lists using a custom image, which did not appear in the document when it is printed.
  • Bulleted lists did lose their custom pictures in case when they were inserted from the Clipboard.
  • A Tab Stop did lose its alignment setting when being moved on the ruler.
  • The editor’s Overwrite mode now does not reset its state when you open another help topic.
  • The Strikethrough attribute could not be selected for text due to an internal bug.
  • The Spell Checker’s “Ignore Internet and file addresses” option did not work.
  • Double-clicking on a hyperlink located in a nested table did show the “Hyperlink Properties” dialog-box more than one time.
  • Other minor bug fixes made.

Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven
• Pentium II or higher processor,
• 128 MB RAM,
  
• 50 MB free disk space