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2004-04-23 12:59:35 AM
delphi180
Being sure you will provide me great advices, I would like to ear your opinions.
I am considering buying Help & Manual from www.ec-software.com as an help
authoring tool.
It is WYSIWYG and looks like a great deal at 299$.
Wich tool are you using?
Is there a better one on the market?
Thanks for your input.
Fred.
 

With H&M, I actually look forward to writing documentation about new
features.
Need I say more ?
Olivier
 

H&M is the one I use, and I love their image editor TNT. Amazing for quick
screenshots that you need for your manuals, and they require little to no
editing. Check out the help file with xmlLinguist, it was written with H&M,
tied into the application via their component, and the screenshots were all
TNT.
Bryce K. Nielsen
SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com)
Makers of xmlLinguist, the EDI-to-XML Translator
www.xmllinguist.com
 

I create my help files in Frontpage or Dreamweaver and then compile it
using MS Help compiler. Also I add photos of my soft by "PrtScr" and
editing in photoshop or something like that.
Or I do not get the point of using such software?
Regards,
Mac
ProgrammerNet.org
 

I do the same.
Bruno
 

Frederic Gelinas writes:
wish that more of my clients requested help files with their programs,
so that I would have more opportunity to use H&M.
--
www.kobayashi.com
 

Mac writes:
like six different kinds of help system files - HTMLHelp, WinHelp,
HTML, PDF, RTF, and MMHelp - with pretty much no additional effort.
--
www.kobayashi.com
 

"Frederic Gelinas" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
It is hard to beat for 99$ and does everuthing I need.
Mark
 

Frederic,
there...
--
marc hoffman
RemObjects Software
www.remobjects.com
 

I am using the one from www.Visagesoft.com from a much earlier
recommendation several years back.
I did consider Help & Manual now but I am still hesitant of moving. There
are some perks with H & M but
I am a little apprehensive shelling out $299 for it when the one I have is
still working. I lack the better HTMLHelp
and the WebHelp functions which H & M has but what I cannot achieve, I am
going about it another way.
Edwin
"Frederic Gelinas" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

investments I have made. I have been using it for several years now.
GB
 

point.
H&M is great (and I own Frontpage and Corel and H&M still is great)
Cheers,
Anthony Richardson
 

Mac writes:
On occasion I have pounded a nail into a board using a wrench. It did
work, but not nearly as well as a hammer would have.
--
www.kobayashi.com
 

Eric Schreiber writes:
LP,
Dejan
 

Hi
I tried HelpScribble, it felt too much like I was writing HTML in notepad.
I tried Robohelp, it was a huge install, very sluggish. If I recall it
edited my projects in words (not sure), I didn't like it anyway and it was
very expensive.
I tried DocOMatic too. It was pretty good. It was really better for
reading source comments and creating component help. For writing software
manuals I didn't like it so much.
I tried H&M and I loved it! I really wish they too would import source
comments, but that is all I can see that is missing. For writing
applications manuals it is a pleasure, I went from thinking that docs were a
chore to thinking that docs are a pleasure. Whenever I have spent a day at
work using Help and Manual I come home happy :-)
--
Pete
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