Help & Manual V5.3 released

New release adds new RTF parser, German User Interface and Windows 7 compatibility.

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The Help & Manual page editor and project explorer.

Help & Manual is an advanced multi format help authoring tool that provides all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor. You can output your projects to all standard Windows help formats (HTML Help, Winhelp and MS Help 2.0 / Visual Studio Help), browser-based Help, PDF and Word RTF. All output formats supported by Help & Manual are generated from the same project, you only have to edit your help and documentation once. Help & Manual Professional (XML Edition) Edition includes advanced features like Unicode Support or export/import help projects in XML format. Help & Manual is fully compatible with Windows Vista and also with Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. The following editions are available:

• Help & Manual Standard
• Help & Manual Professional
• Help & Manual Premium Pack

Updates in V5.3

• A completely new RTF parser imports Word RTF documents with full formatting and styles
  Document styles used in the RTF file are retained and added to your Help & Manual project style list automatically. Winhelp (.hpj) files are now imported with styles as well and the new Robohelp import module can read RoboHelp X6, 7 and 8 projects as well as X5 projects
• German User Interface
  Help & Manual 5.3 comes with an English and a German user interface. You can switch the language in the program options without restarting the program
• Windows 7 Compatible
  Help and Manual 5.3 adds compatibility with Windows 7
• New Command Line Interface
  New command line interface for batch compilation and automation. The syntax of the command line parameters remains unchanged
• View topics with your browser
  When creating a new project, Help & Manual now includes an XSL stylesheet for web browser previews of XML topic files. This draft preview of raw XML topics files works outside of Help & Manual in every XSLT enabled web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer). The preview function is designed as an aid for translators who are using external translation tools like SD Trados.

About EC Software

EC Software was originally founded in 1993 and went a long way from the initial small one-man shop for point-of-sale software to the documentation tools specialist that it is today. With the first release of Help & Manual in 1997 the company changed its business focus to documentation software and developer tools. Today, Help & Manual is one of the best selling and most popular help authoring tools world-wide.