Windows- Help
Every user of Windows knows the special windows-help technology, which can be used pressing F1 or choosing HELP! from a menu. A standard tool comes with every Windows-Version, allowing users to access help-files in an efficient way. That is why windows-help files are also used by a width mass of people for other purposes, such as creating price-lists, catalogs etc.Users...
- Your newest Backup-Software has been delivered with helpfiles instead of a printed manual, but you want to have it on paper? The information on the terms of trade of your primary supplier have to be in black and white? Help to RTF allows printing of all Helpfiles, without accessing the source-code.
Authors...
As an author of help files, whether now creating helpfiles for multimedia - or for program auxiliary, you might finally recognize the restrictions of the hypertext medium "helpfile". For some problems, software engineers managed a solution...-
Printing helpfiles is a cumbersome topic. The control-codes must usually be removed with effort manually. Graphics have to be inserted manually, a content- and index-list have to be generated manually and so on.
Our solution for this is called Help to RTF: you generate your help files as you did, compilate them and finally translate the compilated files with Help to RTF, which creates a professional manual out of them. With the redistributable version of Help to RTF that action can even be performed on the machine of the user running your (shareware) program. - Online Publishing of Help files is usually done by converting them to HTML. A better solution is our free winhelpcgi program doing on the fly conversion of .hlp files on the web server so they can be read with any normal browser. After a simple installation process on your web server, new versions of your help files can simply be published by uploading the modified .hlp file. No further know-how is required! Click here for an impressive online-demonstration what can be achieved.
See also
http://www.helpmaster.com
Josef Beckers WinHelp Ressource, THE reference for WinHelp tools.- Inofficial WinHelp 4.0 Bug-List