AnetHelpTool

AnetHelpTool - it is the program for Help-systems development. By the WYSIWYG interface you can see the Help-system at the development stage as it will be seen by the user.
With AnetHelpTool your Help development turns into the fast and creative process. From a single source You can generate the help-files in various formats - Winhelp for Windows 3.x, Winhelp for Windows 95, HTML Help and Java Help.
The demo-version of the AnetHelpTool has some limits to the number of the topics that can be compiled (10). The other features have full functionality. Thus, if it is not required to make the projects with more than 10 topics you can use our program for free. The time is unlimited.

[AnetHelp Demo: Free]

[AnetHelp Lite: $US149.95]

[AnnetHelp Full: $US199.95]

AuthorIT, from AuthorIT Software Corporation Ltd.

AuthorIT is one of the most sophisticated and advanced tools for authoring, management, and publishing of on-line and printed documents from a single source.
AuthorIT gives you a powerful collaborative authoring environment. All your authors and contributors work together from the same single source database to create and maintain consistent, quality documentation. Author content once, change it in one place, reduce errors and re-work, minimize reviews, and eliminate duplication. Manage content and resources, control workflow, and meet deadlines. Publish print, online help and web documents. Discover how you can improve productivity and achieve significant cost savings with AuthorIT.

AuthorIT is now available from http://www.authorit.com/download.mv in free single user and multi user evaluation versions

[AuthorIT Desktop: $US399.00]

[AuthorIT Workgroup (1-4): $US599.00]

[AuthorIT Enterprise(1-19): $US799.00]

Blue Sky Software - "Leader in Help Authoring Tools", produces RoboHTML and RoboHELP.

RoboHTML is an HTML Help Authoring tool that provides rich WYSIWYG editing capabilities with full drag and drop support, automated project management, and complete testing features. RoboHTML compliments HTML Help Workshop and was designed from the ground up for HTML Help. A 30-day demo is available.

RoboHELP is the single-source Help authoring tool for creating online Help, documentation, HTML Help, NetHelp, and intranet/Internet web sites.

Winhelp Office 5, "The Complete Help Authoring Solution", includes RoboHELP, RoboHTML (at no extra cost, for a limited time only), plus over 16 other time-saving Help authoring tools.

Cheetah 9, by by Jan Verhoeven

Cheetah 9 is an editor to create rtf Help Topic Files to be used with Microsoft's Help Workshop. Features: syntax highlighting, topics and keywords Trees, click-insert text and image hotspots, includes as a sample all files used to create the Cheetah help file. Find/Replace, Print, AutoComplete, import component source; Instant Delphi Component help; smart replace; import pascal source as rtf; import existing RTF topic files; Visual contents designer, single topic editor, autocreate project, follow link, quick preview; HelpContext Mapping and LinksTree. NEW in version 9: Export/Import chapters via XML; fast-link; improved interface.

[Free]

EasyHelp, from Toni Helenius, ToniArts

EasyHelp is a 100% free program that makes Windows compatible help files. EasyHelp can create both HTML-helps (not in BETA!) and ordinary HLP-helps. List of some features:

• Very nice interface!
• Lets you do complete helps in HTML-format or in the original help-format with ease!
• Multilingual!
• Very user friendly!
• Powerful, flexible and very customizable!
• Huge help file which gives you every little detail about EasyHelp!
• And much more...

Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 3.51

[Free]

EasyHelp/Web^™

WinHelp and HTML editor EasyHelp/Web™ is designed for authors and programmers who want to make either Windows Help files or Internet Web pages quickly and easily from Word for Windows documents. If you are familiar with Microsoft Word you will be able to produce online hypertext versions of your paper based documents in minutes. This is a word add-in. EasyHelp/Web adds two new toolbars to an existing or new MS Word (6, 7 or 97) document. Your documents can be managed and updated in the normal way, using all of the familiar Word features. A 30-day trial version is available. V3.0 email registration is $145US; boxed version is $280US.

(Note pricing is approximate -- conversion from UK pounds will vary.)

FAR, by Rob Chandler

FAR is a collection of file and HTML Help utilities for authors. If you need to quickly manipulate HTML files, or create and edit HTML Help then FAR will save you lots of time. You can safely use FAR and MS Workshop side by side, unlike many other authoring tools. Use Help Express to quickly create MS Help. Just select the folder you want to compress containing HTML files. FAR will search for all HTML, images and media files and compress these into a single HTML Help file. Or, right click a folder in windows Explorer and select "Compile to HTML Help".
The FAR download is a full working version. FAR will operate for 2 months so you can try out all of its features, then you will get a nag screen asking you to register.

[Shareware: $US49]

GemDoc™, from Gemini 1 Consulting, L.L.C.

Are you going crazy maintaining different format versions for your documents? Are you a software developer looking for a straightforward tool to produce integrated context sensitive Html Help files? Or a Unix user looking for a way to convert your DocBook files in a Windows environment? If you answered yes to any of the above, GemDoc™ is your solution!
GemDoc™ provides a quick, no-nonsense way to create professional online documentation and help files. With GemDoc™, there's only one file to maintain! And yet you can produce the following popular document formats:

• HTML (single page)
• HTML (web pages)
• HTML Help
• PDF
• PostScript
• RTF
• Text
• Plus you can convert Html to PDF, PostScript, and Text!

Now you can try this exciting product free in a full featured beta version! Maintain a single document which can be translated into a variety of formats without post-conversion formatting hassles. Write it once and it looks great in all formats! Whether it be Html, PDF, Html Help, PostScript, Text or RTF! Streamline your document writing and prevent author headaches! GemDoc's intuitive interface, power, multiplicity of options, and ability to process multiple files will put order back into your document production and maintenance and will thrill you with its ease!

[Beta: Free]

HelpAid, from Antonio Zamora

HelpAid is a program that processes text files coded with keywords to generate the HPJ and RTF files required as input by a Help Compiler. You don't need a complicated word processor! Use your favorite text editor to create "pop-ups", text and bitmap hyperlinks. Insert bitmap images, choose from several fonts, font sizes, text colors and typefaces. Enhance your help file index with keyword phrases.

[Free]

HelpBuilder, from GPP Software

HelpBuilder supports all of the major WinHelp features such as topics, links, bitmaps, keywords, windows and macros. It even has a project Wizard and the ability to accept RTF commands. HelpBuilder can be used to create help files for applications written in C/C++, VB, Power Builder, Access, Clarion etc
HelpBuilder is designed for developers wishing to create Windows Help files to distribute with their products and for anyone who wants to create stand-alone Windows Help files.
HelpBuilder is a complete Integrated Development Environment, specifically tailored for help file development and is tightly integrated with the Microsoft help compilers.

[HelpBuilder Evaluation: Free]

[HelpBuilder Professional: $US79.00

Helpburger, from Langdale Designs Ltd

Helpburger is unlike all other Windows help creation tools in that it was designed from day one to be easy to use and affordable by everyone. You won't need to spend two hours scouring helpfiles or manuals before you can start using Helpburger. Within five minutes of starting Helpburger for the first time you will have created your first helpfile - why not download a copy now and give it a try for yourself? There's no obligation, and - as it's shareware - if you don't like it you don't need to pay a thing!

[Shareware: $US40]

Help Creator, from Breit Technologies

This program can be used by anyone to create a Windows Help (.hlp) file. This is an especially useful tool for software developers who want to create help files for their software in a simple fashion. It is a very simple way to produce simple but effective help files. This program uses an almost-WYSIWYG style interface. It is not completely WYSIWYG because any pictures that you insert into a page are not actually placed in the page until the .hlp file is created. Lastly, this software is freeware so please feel free to distribute it to anyone you wish.

Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

[Free]

Help Development Studio, from DivcoM Software

Help Development Studio is a stand-alone tool for quick developing full functional application help systems in Win- and HTML- help formats. The program includes everything what is necessary for it. These are built-in text editor, help contents editor, macros editor and browse sequence one. Help Development Studio allows to work with several help projects simultaneously providing convenient navigation on topics, windows and managing all the help project data. The program supports extensions such as possibility of using segmented hyper graphics in HTML Help, using relative paths, and also possibility of installing additional plug-ins which can be converters, editors and other tools allowing to extend the program in accordance with your own needs. Creating application help with Help Development Studio, you will do it much sooner and more qualitatively.

[15 day trial: $US82.95]

Help Express, from ChainWare Development

Help Express is an easy-to-use, yet powerful, help builder tool to build and manage your own help systems. With it's intuitive interface it's easy to add hyperlinks and hyper graphics (segmented images). Help Express is 100% OLE compatible what means you can virtually add everything in your help systems.
Besides all this, it has a very intuitive system to insert and use macros. The macros are divided in groups and for each macro there is a full description and for the most even a screenshot to make it easier to exactly understand what the macro does. This simply means, no more searching in the help files of Help Workshop. The shareware version of Help Express is fully functional, except that a small advertisement text will appear at the bottom of each document you make.

[Shareware: US$149]

HelpHikes Pro, from KanadePro

A WinHelp authoring tool and an HTML file editor

Use HelpHikes Pro and start Windows Help authoring in minutes! Just add topics to a document, insert hyperlinks by a simple drag and drop, and push a button to create help. To learn advanced usage, you can see the accompanying sample projects.
HelpHikes Pro requires Microsoft Help Workshop (HCW) compiler installed on your system. You may already have HCW if you have any Windows development kit installed, such as, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, C++ Builder, etc. Look for a file HCW.EXE on your system.

Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP

[30 day trial: $US25]

Help Magician Elite 2001, from StateLine Software

Help Magician Elite 2001 is the all-in-one, stand alone WYSIWYG Winhelp Help Authoring Tool, HTML Help Authoring Tool, and Web Site Builder. Use Help Magician Elite for Windows help files, online manuals, web sites, HTML help, compiled HTML help, all of your authoring needs. Help Magician Elite 2001 works on all 32 bit versions of Windows (95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP) and with all programming languages. Help Magician Elite 2001 works on all 32 bit versions of Windows (95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP) and with all programming languages.

[Shareware]

helpMATIC Pro HTML, from Harbinder Ghag

helpMATIC Pro HTML is a new easy to use WYSIWYG HTML Help authoring tool. helpMATIC Pro HTML has a fully graphical Contents Designer for creating contents files. You will be amazed at how you can create your own contents files in seconds with just a few clicks of your mouse button. The HTML code editor allows you to edit the HTML directly. Perfect if you need to tweak the layout of the page yourself. helpMATIC Pro HTML allows you to import projects created using the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop. You don't even need to re-write your previous projects for use in helpMATIC Pro HTML! Use the 'always on top' Project Explorer to browse through your project. Moving between topics couldn't be easier. Managing a large help project can be a difficult task, but the Topic List makes it a thing of the past! Through this window you have a full view of all the topics in your help file, and you can easily add, delete and change properties of multiple topics at once. helpMATIC Pro HTML provides full support of HTML Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to give your help file a consistent look and feel. You can import your own CSS files, or create new ones using the built in CSS editor. See the website for more details of this products many features.

[30 day trial: $US65]