Helpinator

Easy Single Source Help Authoring

As the person responsible for maintaining an up-to-date documentation library in your company, you know how hard it is to keep up with different format requests. Some departments need their stuff in PDF format, others need printed manuals, and still others want to read their documentation in electronic form. To produce original documentation in each of these formats is impractical, so what do you do? You get a copy of today's discounted software promotion, Helpinator, and become the superhero of documentation in your office!

Helpinator is a single-source WYSIWYG help authoring application that will help you to create the perfect documentation library in multiple formats. With Helpinator, you'll be able to produce CHM help files, PDF files, Web Help for Internet/Intranet hosting, and printed materials, all from the same source material! Think about it -- CHM for online help, PDF for electronic user manuals, Web Help for distribution on your company's website, and old fashioned printed documentation for that one guy in your office who still uses blue pencils and doesn't trust newfangled technology.

Helpinator is perfectly-suited to help you create multilingual help projects. Because topic structure and context ID's remain the same, you only need to write language-specific topic content! In addition, you can easily communicate with third-party translation services using XML Import/Export.

Helpinator's 'Image Library' allows you to not only store and manage screenshots, but also add callouts and other decorations to your images. The primary function of the Image Library is to allow you to update screenshots quickly when your UI changes, with no need to browse through all of the topics in your project!

Want to make sure that your customers have the clearest possible instruction? Helpinator facilitates this with step-by-step guides, allowing you to document specific procedures that users have to follow. Each step can contain a title, text and image.

Helpinator also makes it easy to include code snippets (formatted and highlighted blocks of text) in your help files. You can embed them directly into your topics and export to all supported formats.

And when it comes to crafting that source material, Helpinator doesn't leave you out in the cold. Its intuitive and familiar WYSIWYG interface gives you everything that you need to create outstanding documents, from different styles to handy utilities like spellcheck. Once you're done, just a click of a button gives you your completed documentation in the format of your choice. Plus, Helpinator is designed to automatically generate components like tables of content, navigation links, See Also references, and more!