Free self help author leshan software for windows

We all know that time equals money. If you are a software developer or micro-ISV your time is your greatest value. Thus you need development tools that save your time and money. Large help authoring suits are expensive and contain lots of features that you will never use.
Helpinator is inexpensive and is packed with a set of features that you need every day. Above that you receive some unique essential features not available in other help authoring packages.
Main features:
- Produce CHM, PDF, RTF and Website from single source.
- Built-in template engine allows defining different templates for different types of documentation.
- Store images at one place, not spread across all topics. Use one image in several topics. Change image at one place to update multiple topics.
- Use text includes to store blocks of text that appear in the same form in several topics.
- Full set of editing features - insert tables, images, flash movies and etc.

Helpinators main focus is on making help authoring more productive. Helpinator eliminates double-work that you have to do using regular help authoring tools and simplifies complex tasks. You can compile professionally looking help files in 4 different formats, in multiple languages and for multiple editions of your product - all that from single source!

Major Features:

1. Produces documentation in CHM, PDF, RTF and Website formats.
2. Project file can store as many languages as you wish. You don't need to have separate projects for each language and waste time synchronizing them. Project structure and topic IDs remain the same, you only need to enter content and titles in different languages. Each language can have its own: Contents and titles Templates (both HTML and RTF) Keywords Variables Text Snippets
3. Template engine allows you to customize documentation look and feel. HTML and RTF/PDF templates are fully adjustable. If you don't know HTML or CSS you can use Template Builder that helps you visually design HTML template.
4. Helpinator produces good-looking PDF files with front page, table of contents, header, footer, page numbers and outline. Image Library can save you a lot of time. First of all all images are at one place, so you dont need to browse through your project to find them. Second you can reference one image from several topics. When image changes you only need to update it in the library.
5. Shape editor allows you to annotate images and screenshots. Text snippets save your time just like library images. If same portion of text appears in the same form in different topics create text snippet from it. You will save time as you don,t need to paste it into each topic and you don't need to update every topic if this text changes. Just edit snippet.
6. Conditional compilation allows you to compile different variations from the same source. See website for more detailed view of features.

Enhancements:

• Multilingual projects generate help files in multiple languages from the same source.
• Conditional compilation
• Import and Export RTF and HTML
• Annotate images
• Header, Footer, page numbers and outline for PDF

Requirements:

• Pentium III processor or higher
• 512 Mb of RAM
• 20 Mb on hard drive.

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