MGTEK Help Producer 2.2

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 Words 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.
Main features:
Work Inside Microsoft Word
- With Help Producer, authoring HTML Help files could not get any easier. By extending the powerful authoring environment of Microsoft Word, Help Producer lets you create help files from your existing Word documents. Unlike other help authoring tools, Help Producer does not include its own help topic editor; instead, it lets you edit your help topics directly in Microsoft Word, which enables you to leverage your existing skill set and content.
Increase Your Productivity
- One of the design goals of Help Producer was to leverage off the built-in features of Microsoft Word, and to make the tool as little intrusive to the normal process of writing documents as possible. Help Producer accomplishes this goal by taking advantage of many of Words existing editing and formatting features, without abusing certain features for the sake of authoring help files. This enables the technical writer to focus on writing the help document, instead of dealing with the technologies behind HTML Help.
Automatically Generate Help Projects
- Help Producer fully automates the process of converting your Word documents to HTML help files. With a click on a button of the Help Producer toolbar, Help Producer generates all files necessary to create a compiled help file, such as HTML and graphics files, project files, table of contents files, and index files. No further editing of the generated files is required. All output formats can be generated from the same document by simply changing the output format.
Create Microsoft HTML Help 1.3 Help Files
- Help Producer has full support for HTML Help 1.3, the current help system for Microsoft Windows. Help Producers project editor allows you to use all features found in HTML Help 1.3, such as table of contents, index, search, windows, etc. Further, Help Producer supports advanced features such as A-links, context ID mapping, etc.
Create Microsoft Help 2.0 Help Files
- Microsoft Help 2.0 is Microsofts new help system used exclusively in Visual Studio .NET. If you are creating tools or components for .NET, Microsoft Help 2.0 is the preferred help system if you want to integrate your product with Visual Studio .NET. Help Producer is the first and only help authoring tool that fully supports the MSDN20 template, as specified the Visual Studio Help Integration Kit, which allows you to create help files with the exact same appearance as those in the MSDN Library.
Create MGTEK Browser Help 1.1
- In addition to compiled HTML Help you can create MGTEK Browser Help 1.1, a platform independent help system that can be viewed in any major browser. MGTEK Browser Help 1.1 is optimized to provide fast loading pages, even when viewed across a low-bandwidth internet connection. With a typical initial load time of less than 15 seconds regardless of the number of pages in your help file, MGTEK Browser Help is one of the fastest browser help systems on the market.
Fully Customizable
- Help Producer introduces the concept of HTML templates and themes. HTML templates offer simple but powerful customization of HTML files similar to Active Server Pages (ASP). A theme is a set of templates, scripts, and resource files that enables you to fully control the look of the produced HTML output. With the Theme SDK, you can create themes yourself and customize them to fit your needs, to ensure a consistent appearance of you help files throughout your corporation.
Multi-language support
- Help Producer is fully Unicode enabled, which allows you to write help files in almost any language, including script or symbol languages such as Japanese, or Chinese, and right-to-left languages such as Arabic. To take full advantage of Help Producers Unicode capabilities, we recommend a Unicode enabled operation system such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Best of all, Help Producer is capable of generating localized HTML Help 1.0 files without the need for a localized operating system.
COM Scripting Object Model
- Help Producer is entirely based on Microsofts Component Object Model architecture (COM). The object model that Help Producer exposes contains over 100 COM objects, which can be accessed by any scripting language, such as JScript or VBScript. The scripting object model is also used to script templates and themes, which allows you to fully control the generated output. In addition, you can automate Help Producer to perform complex tasks, for instance a batch conversion of Word documents.
Version restrictions:
- The license key is limited to 30-days.
- Generates a maximum of 100 help topics.
Enhancements:
- Generates HTML help files directly from your Word documents.
- Supports Microsoft Help 1.0, Microsoft Help 2.0, and web based help.
- Generated output is fully customizable with templates and themes.
- Full Unicode support for all languages, including script and symbol languages such as Japanese and Chinese.
- Scripting object model with more than 100 objects.