Doc-To-Help Enterprise and Doc-To-Help Word main differences:

Doc-To-Help Enterprise includes:

• Team Authoring Support
• Macromedia Dreamweaver Integration
• Microsoft FrontPage Integration
• Import RoboHelp HTML Projects
• Import Individual HTML Files
• Use Any HTML Editor

Doc-To-Help Features:

Creating Help Systems and Printed Manuals (Features for Your Help Systems)

• Microsoft Windows 7, Vista and Office 2007 System Support: Experience support for Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System including Seamless Integration with Word 2007
• Single source authoring:Quickly and easily create and implement HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation from one source document
• Graphics and Screenshots:Easily include images in your project
• Image Map Editor:Insert an image and add hotspot links to specific Help topics
• Links, jumps, pop-ups, and more:Add topic links and jumps, pop-up topics, dynamic links, and cross-references
• Dynamic Text Effects:Add dynamic text, such as expanding text, pop-up text, and drop-down text, to your Help files
• Table of Contents and Index:Doc-To-Help uses information from your source content to automatically create a customizable table of contents and an index
• Modular TOC Utility: Automatically populate all modular system Help files with fully functional table of contents links
• Glossary Terms: Use the convenient toolbar buttons or styles to add and sort glossary terms
• Natural Search: Add a Natural Language search engine to your output. Keyword search is also included
• Context Sensitive Help: Automatically generate context IDs, or specify your own, to map topics to your application's interface
• Context Sensitive Help for Web Applications: Automatically generate context IDs, or specify your own, to map topics to your Web application's interface. Help topics will appear in NetHelp, the Web-based Help output
• Context String Editor: Use a convenient interface to define context ID strings for Help 2.0 and conveniently connect them to Help topics without writing a single line of code

Use Existing Content (Convert files from RoboHelp, other tools, and Doc-To-Help 2000. Also import existing documents)

• RoboHelp HTML Project Converter (Enterprise Edition only): Import a RoboHelp HTML file and Doc-To-Help will automatically convert it to a Doc-To-Help project, complete with Doc-To-Help markups. All you have to do is point and click!
• RoboHelp Word Project Converter : Import a RoboHelp Word file and Doc-To-Help will automatically convert the project information and the Word source file(s).
• Import Any HTML Help Project: Import any HTML Help file and Doc-To-Help will automatically convert it.
• Import Any WinHelp Project: Import any WinHelp file and Doc-To-Help will automatically convert it.
• Doc-To-Help 2000 Converter: Easily convert your existing Doc-To-Help 2000 projects with the click of a button
• Import Individual Word Files: Import individual files containing single or multiple topics
• Import Individual HTML Files (Enterprise Edition only): Import individual files containing single or multiple topics
• Merge Multiple HTML Help and WinHelp Projects: Combine multiple projects into one TOC, index, and glossary
• Merge Multiple NetHelp Projects: Combine multiple projects into one TOC, index, and glossary
• Highlighted Search Results in NetHelp: When opening a topic found by NetHelp Search, the search phrase is now highlighted in the topic text
• More NetHelp Enhancements: A new NetHelp theme gives more functionality such as print/email topic and save-to-favorites to improve the user experience

Authoring and Editing Projects (Features to make your content creation process easy and flexible)

• Microsoft Word or HTML Source: Author your source documents in Microsoft Word, HTML, or both
• Microsoft Word Integration: Use the toolbar and wizards that install in the Microsoft Word interface to create online Help and printed documentation elements
• Microsoft FrontPage Integration (Enterprise Edition only): Use the toolbar and wizards that install in the Microsoft FrontPage interface to create online Help and printed documentation elements
• Macromedia Dreamweaver Integration ( Enterprise Edition only): Use the toolbar and wizards that install in the Dreamweaver interface to create online Help and printed documentation elements
• D2HML (Doc-To-Help Markup Language): Use D2HML to specify styles that translate into Help elements when Doc-To-Help processes the document
• Built-in or Custom Templates: Choose from a variety of templates for producing high quality print documentation. You can modify the built-in templates or use your own
• Built-in Styles: Use built-in styles for authoring "What's This" topics and mid-topic jumps. You can also use the built-in character styles to easily implement jumps, pop-ups, and index entries based on textual matches
• HTML Theme Designer: Use the theme designer to control the layout and appearance of topics for HTML-based platforms
• Conditional Text: Use Doc-To-Help's built-in conditional text styles to designate content for a specific output
• Team Authoring Support ( Enterprise Only): Source control technology provides integrated check-in/check-out functions so multiple authors may contribute to one project
• Conditional Build Expressions: Use a combination of conditional build tags to create advanced conditional builds
• Margin Notes: Add margin notes in Word with the click of a button
• Scripting: Create custom scripts and assign them to styles to develop your own features
• Output Folder Specification: Specify any folder as the output folder of a help target

Generating Help Systems and Printed Documentation (Features to empower you to create the outputs you need)

• Improved Command-Line Support: Build a Doc-To-Help project from the command line
• ComponentOne NetHelp (Cross-Platform HTML):Create a searchable Help system designed for deployment on the Web
• Popular Online Help Formats: Generate any popular Help system such as HTML Help, WinHelp, JavaHelp, and Visual Studio .NET-style Help
• Help 2.0: Software developers can use Doc-To-Help in conjunction with the Visual Studio Help Integration Kit (VSHIK) to develop content that integrates with the Help system in Visual Studio .NET
• Printed Documentation: Transform your Microsoft Word and HTML sources into professional printed documentation complete with a customizable title page, table of contents, index, and glossary
• Section 508 Compliance: Doc-To-Help creates a version of NetHelp that is Compliant with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act
• Document Conditions: build tags allow the user to set conditional build tags for entire documents
• PDF Output: Automatically create a print-ready PDF manual and skip the manual-to-PDF conversion process

Application Developer Support (Features to support Web and Windows application developers)

• Documenter for .NET: Automatically generate MSDN-style internal and end user documentation. Documenter for .NET creates reference documentation from compiled assemblies and XML comment files, providing you with complete and well-formatted documents for class libraries Documenter now supports any custom user-defined tags and attributes in XML comments. This is done through an optional XSLT transformation that can now be specified in a Documenter project.
• Context String Editor: Define context ID strings and conveniently connect them to Help topics
• Visual Basic Scripting: Use Microsoft Visual Basic scripts to customize the behavior of individual styles at compile time
• Links to Standard Framework Types in Help 2.0: Generate links to system classes and types (those belonging to .NET Framework, such as System.String, etc)

Doc-To-Help: Two Versions to Choose From
You have two versions to choose from: Doc-To-Help Enterprise and Doc-To-Help for Word. Both versions have the same interface, workflow, and publishing technology.

Version Comparison