A Help Authoring Tool by Innovasys

HelpStudio is the fastest, easiest way to create and publish help systems and integrate them with your desktop or web based applications or components, including .NET. Generate help output in cross-platform plain HTML, HTML Help, Help 2.x or printable PDF. Built in localization support means that you can take your help system to a global audience if required.

HelpStudio seamlessly combines a feature packed WYSIWYG authoring environment, HTML based layout templates and customizable Content Widgets to make it simple to create consistent, professional looking help systems with the minimum of effort. Help Authoring just got a whole lot easier.

Inside HelpStudio
The HelpStudio user interface is intuitive and full of time saving and productivity features designed to make Help Authoring an enjoyable experience. Creating the Table of Contents or Glossary, adding Index Keywords and See Also Links, capturing screenshots, adding drop down sections or tip boxes to content and designing PDF booklets are all fully integrated and simply achieved using a few clicks or drag and drop.

Find and Replace, Spell check and Hyperlink verification can be run on the entire project, ensuring that your help systems need never ship with spelling errors or broken links. Build flags (conditional content) can be used to mark content, files or table of contents nodes in order to create multiple versions of a help system (perhaps a 'Lite' and a 'Professional' version) from the same project. A single project can contain multiple languages, making it simple to take your help system to a global audience. Full unicode support means you can handle even complex languages including Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.

What makes HelpStudio different from other products?
We know that you have a choice and encourage you to evaluate other help authoring products to discover for yourself the unique features that make HelpStudio an obvious choice. There are several critical features that we believe distinguish HelpStudio most:

User Interface: The HelpStudio user interface includes advanced features such as collapsible dock windows, customizable toolbars and a Tabbed MDI document area. The Tabbed MDI as implemented in HelpStudio allows you to split the document area into Tab Groups in order to work with multiple topics or other document windows side by side.
The Template Concept: HelpStudio leverages HTML based page templates so that common page elements such as page header and footers are automatically generated. This feature is a crucial time saver, and ensures that as you evolve the look and feel of your help systems you don't have to go back and rework individual topics.
Project Tools: HelpStudio can verify links, check spelling and Find / Replace across an entire project.
Content Editor: The HelpStudio content editor provides powerful authoring functionality including table editing (row, column or cell cut/copy/paste, resize), unlimited undo, hyperlink designer and build flag highlighting.
Content Widgets: Delivering great help content often requires a trade off between the time invested in creating dynamic content and the benefits it brings to the users of the content. With HelpStudio, you no longer need to comprimise - Widgets allow you to deliver dynamic content (e.g. drop down sections, enlarge in place images, colorized example code) without requiring any manual authoring effort and with no need to have HTML or Javascript knowledge. Simply drop a pre-defined Widget in your content and HelpStudio will take care of the rest.
Multi Language Authoring: HelpStudio allows you to work with any number of additional languages in addition to the primary language of your project.
Dynamic Help SDK: HelpStudio allows you to integrate a Dynamic Help window (as implemented in Visual Studio.NET) into your application. The Dynamic Help SDK includes an integrated Dynamic Help editor and a redistributable Dynamic Help control.
Team working: Working in a team and want several members to contribute to or review the help system? HelpStudio has fully integrated support for Source code Control systems (Visual SourceSafe, Team Foundation Server, SourceGear Vault as well as other source control systems implementing an MSCCI interface).