Help & Manual updated

March 31, 2015
Patch Release

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:

Updates in 6.5.5

The following bugs were fixed:

  • PDF exporting - diacritical marks with Baltic character sets did not work.
  • Content importing - when importing a large amount of content, Help & Manual now saves the project file to disk during the import.
  • Auto-detect URL could not be switched off.
  • CHM import - error fixed when importing a CHM file without certain internal streams (e.g. no TOC, no index or no A-keywords).

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.

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