Help Authoring Tools


Help files are the standard mechanism for documenting applications and our range of tools can improve productivity in the help authoring process. Edit through WYSIWYG interfaces, manage the structure of your documents and output to multiple formats.



Help Authoring Tools by ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity

ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise 2012 v3

Several platforms, hundreds of feature-rich controls, one studio make for easy .NET development. Build awesome desktop, Web, and mobile apps with our tools for WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET WebForms, MVC, Silverlight, Windows 8, iPhone, Mobile, and ActiveX. ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise gives you the technology you need to reach any user.
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ComponentOne Studio® for WinForms 2012 v3

Over 65 .NET Windows Forms controls, including the ones you can't get anywhere else. ComponentOne Studio® for WinForms controls come packed with smart, code-free designers, endless built-in features, superior flexibility, and the outstanding assurance that these controls will stand the test of time.
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Help Authoring Tools by Innovasys

HelpStudio 2012.1

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 browser help, HTML Help 1.x, Help 2.x or printable PDF. HelpStudio seamlessly combines a feature packed WYSIWYG authoring environment with HTML based layout templates to make it simple to create consistent, professional looking help systems with the minimum of effort.
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Help Authoring Tools by Living Address

Living Doc.NET V1.0 -  Living Doc.NET is a documentation solution that automates the entire documentation process while supporting and showing dependencies within .NET, ASP, and SQL projects. Just as the Server Edition, this software provides development teams with the ability to compare 'snapshots' or documentation scans to see what has been added, updated, or deleted since the last scan.
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Help Authoring Tools by EC Software

Help & Manual V6.1 -  Help & Manual is a documentation tool and content management system for both single and multi-author editing. While it is as easy to use like a normal word processor, Help & Manual gives you the full power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor.
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Help Authoring Tools by Olson Software Limited

HyperText Studio V5.1 -  The HyperText Studio is a WYSIWYG HyperText authoring tool. With it, you can create web sites and help files effortlessly! In an enterprise situation you can have multiple users working together on the same project! The HyperText Studio's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a visual way to develop your projects. Learning the product is easy because it looks and acts like other major Windows applications.
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Help Authoring Tools by Excel Software

QuickHelp for Windows V4.0.1 -  QuickHelp is a help authoring tool that consists of a Builder edition for creating, formatting and linking the help topics and a Viewer edition for deploying them to end-users. The help information resides in a single XML file distributed with the QuickHelp Viewer. Application help that can be deployed to Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Linux.
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Help Authoring Tools by The Australian Software Company

SQL Help Builder 2.03 -  Document all objects within a SQL Server Database schema plus add your own help topics. Now with SQL Help Builder you can personalize your documentation by including your own topics and text, images, bullet points, external HTML links even additional text files. Combined with user definable templates you can document your database in minutes and all done the way you want. Then save the results as either a compiled help file or HTML pages.
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Help Authoring Tools by Quadralay Corporation

ePublisher Pro 2010.2 -  The ePublisher Pro component is used for designing, configuring, and maintaining the style and behavior of all your online formats at once within a single master project that systematically handles the deployment of your organization's shared stationery. As your business needs grow, this component makes it easy to propagate changes and updates throughout your entire organization.
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Help Authoring Tools by Indigo Byte Systems

Dr.Explain 4.8.659 -  Dr.Explain is a help authoring tool for creating CHM files, HTML help, on-line manuals, and printable documentation for your software.
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Help Authoring Tools by Software 7 GmbH

Helen V2.33 -  Software 7® Helen® is a user-friendly system for building, managing, and publishing content for JavaHelp systems: Helen includes a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Produces excellent JavaHelp output, Import of existing JavaHelpTM helpsets, Project consistency checker, HTML link checker, Designed exclusively for JavaHelp and Export of a single PDF document for the complete HelpSet
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Help Authoring Tools by HelpBurner

HelpBurner V1.1.8 -  HelpBurner is a simple yet powerful way for you to create help, documentation and tutorials that let your users become experts quickly. Gone are the old ways of creating help as an afterthought or a necessary evil... HelpBurner was created from the ground up to make it easy for you to create help that shows (not tells) users how to master your products.
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Help Authoring Tools by HelpSmith

HelpSmith V3.4 -  HelpSmith is an innovative help authoring tool allowing you to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help, Printed Manuals, and PDF documents from the same source help project.
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Help Authoring Tools by Major Mind Software

Helpinator  -  Helpinator is a single-source multi-lingual multi-format WYSIWYG help authoring tool. Write text once then compile CHM help files, manuals in PDF format, Web Help and Printed Manuals.
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