Help & Manual 5 is a single-source help authoring and content management system for both single and multi-author editing.Working with Help & Manual is as easy as writing text with a word processor, while all content is saved as pure XML in the background.Help & Manual scales from small to really large projects with thousands of pages and creates Windows help files, Webhelp and manuals in print and PDF format.Help & Manual´s working environment gives you all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor, including dynamic styles and complex tables.This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects.

How Help & Manual works:
All the output formats supported by Help & Manual are generated from the same project. This means you only have to edit your help and documentation once. Forget about the nightmare of "converting" your documentation every time you change anything.

Intuitive working environment:
Help & Manual�s working environment gives you all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor, including dynamic styles and complex tables.This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects.Your projects are displayed and edited with the same hierarchical tree structure used by all Windows help formats. The editor and content tree view are combined in a single window. Editing topics and manipulating the structure of your projects is fast and intuitive.

Single source, Multiple output:
Single source is much more than just outputting exactly the same information to different formats. Help & Manual supports conditional and customized output features that enable you to include variant content versions for different output formats and purposes � all in the same project, no post-processing is required.

key Features:
· You can output your projects to all standard Windows help formats (HTML Help, Winhelp and MS Help 2.0 / Visual Studio Help), and since Help & Manual is directly integrated with the Microsoft compilers for these formats all your output is 100% standard-compliant.
· Help & Manual also generates Browser-based Help, PDF and Word RTF. In addition to this you can generate fully-formatted printed manuals directly from the same projects used for all the other formats.
· The Browser-based Help output for web use includes a full menu structure that emulates the appearance and functionality of HTML Help and includes full-text search with highlighting for found words.
· PDF output and printed manuals are fully customizable with the bundled Print Manual Designer program: You can include a table of contents and a keyword index, automatic page referrers for links and cross-references, customized page layouts, headers, footers, page numbering, covers, introductions and more.
· This world is a big place and localization becomes ever more important. Help & Manual lets you create documentation in up to 106 languages. It is one of the few help authoring tools that fully support Unicode and can handle languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean and many others.
· Help & Manual 4 Professional offers dedicated support for translation via XML import and export.
· One of the most critical tasks is to migrate existing documentation when you switch to another tool. And this has never been easier than now. Help & Manual imports regular HTML and text files, compiled HTML Help, Word files (RTF format), Winhelp source files and even decompiles HLP files.

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