ComponentOne DocToHelp

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Doc-To-Help is the perfect choice for creating innovative online user assistance (including browser-based, platform independent Help), converting existing Word documents to online materials, or producing professional quality printed manuals. Technical communicators, policy writers, and other content creators can author any type of information in Microsoft Word or HTML, and publish to the Web, Help systems, or printed manuals. Integrated toolbars and dialogs in Microsoft Word and popular HTML editors allow you to visually create Help systems by defining elements that include topic links, conditional text, pop-ups, and glossary terms.

Spotlight

Intuitive, Modern Interface
Intuitive Microsoft Office 2007 Style Interface

Doc-To-Help 2008 features a brand new interface. Outlook-style navigation, ribbon toolbars, and dialog boxes makes features and settings easy to find and use. This interface will make your experience more efficient and enjoyable.

Toolbars in Word, FrontPage, and Dreamweaver
Author in Word or Any HTML Editor

Author your source documents in Microsoft Word, HTML, or both. Doc-To-Help toolbars and wizards automatically install in Microsoft Word and FrontPage, as well as Adobe Dreamweaver. Your content stays in your editor, no import or proprietary code is necessary.

Easy generation of different outputs
Easy Single Source Publishing

Doc-To-Help can easily convert your existing Word manuals to online content or Help. At the basic level, Doc-To-Help will separate your document into topics by headings or you can create more advanced projects with interactivity and customization.

Convert Existing Manuals to Online Content or Help
Convert Existing Manuals to Online Content or Help

Doc-To-Help can easily convert your existing Word manuals to online content or Help. At the basic level, Doc-To-Help will separate your document into topics by headings or you can create more advanced projects with interactivity and customization.

Drag-and-Drop Topic Relations
Drag-and-Drop Topic Relations

The new Related Topics Editor makes it easy to form topic relations. Doc-To-Help automatically creates “See Also” links based on styles; now you can augment those links, or even remove selected ones. This is just one example of interface improvements we have made in Doc-To-Help 2008.

Insert DemoWorks  Flash Movies
Insert ComponentOne DemoWorks Flash Movies

You can now quickly insert a Flash movie into your Word files with a new toolbar button. With a Wizard, Doc-To-Help will embed the movie and automatically apply conditions that exclude it from printed manuals and other outputs that do not support Flash. Flash movies can be created with DemoWorks, also available from ComponentOne.

Special DemoWorks Bundles are available. See purchase options for more details.

Purchase Options

DocToHelp Word DocToHelp Enterprise
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Features

Content Creation and Import

  • Legacy Project Converters – quickly and easily convert RoboHelp, HTML Help, WinHelp, and Doc-To-Help 2000 Projects

    Using a Wizard, you can convert legacy projects with a few clicks. You can convert RoboHelp HTML, RoboHelp Word, HTML Help, WinHelp, and Doc-To-Help 2000 projects.

  • Powerful single-sourcing with conditions

    Use Doc-To-Help’s built-in conditions for powerful single-sourcing. It is possible to conditionalize text, topics, or even entire documents. In addition, you can conditionalize by output type, project, and by fully-customizable attributes.

  • Content Variables

    Using Variables, you can manage content in one place for reuse across your project. Text Variables can be used for any amount of unformatted text; Rich Content Variables allow you to store formatting along with text.

  • Configure Help elements with styles -- Links, jumps, pop-ups, and more

    Use convenient toolbars to effortlessly apply styles that translate into Help elements (pop-up topics, links, dynamic text, cross-references, and more) when you build your project.

  • Quickly integrate graphics and Movies

    Easily insert images and Flash movies in your project. Add hotspot links to images using the Image Map Editor.

  • Context Sensitive Help mapping in a snap

    Breadcrumbs help end-users pinpoint their location in a Help file. Doc-To-Help's HTML-based outputs (NetHelp, HTML-Help, HTML 2.0) include breadcrumbs that are fully customizable and removable.

  • Configurable Breadcrumb Navigation

    Automatically generate context IDs, or specify your own, to map topics to your application’s interface.

  • Organize Topics with Expanding/Collapsing Sections

    Increase the readability of your online Help topics by including collapsible/expandable sections complete with "+" and "-" icons. Doc-To-Help makes this as simple as applying a style; no special code is needed.

  • Insert Dynamic Text Effects into Help

    Impress your end-users with expanding, drop-down, and pop-up text.

  • Automatic and Customizable Table of Contents and Index

    Doc-To-Help can use information from your source content to automatically create a table of contents and an index. Customize them to your liking or create your own from scratch. You can even create customized TOCs for different outputs.

  • Easy Glossary creation/integration

    Use the convenient toolbar buttons or styles to add and sort glossary terms. If you wish, Doc-To-Help can automatically create a link to the glossary definition every time that term is used in your Help project.

  • Control the look and feel of your Help

    Use the Theme Designer to control the layout and appearance of topics for HTML-based platforms. NetHelp themes include print/email topic and save-to-favorites options to improve the user experience.

  • 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 Style Sheet Editor

    The new Style Sheet Editor allows you to edit and manage your HTML styles in an intuitive Microsoft Office 2007 style interface.

  • Margin Notes that work in both print and online

    Add margin notes in Word with the click of a button. These notes can be designated to appear as popups in online Help.

  • Merge Multiple Projects

    Combine multiple projects into one TOC, index, and glossary.

  • Modular Table of Contents Utility

    Automatically populate all modular system Help files with fully functional table of contents links.

  • Team Authoring Support

    Doc-To-Help’s source control technology provides integrated check-in/check-out functions so multiple authors may contribute to one project.

  • Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 System Support

    Doc-To-Help supports Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2007.

Publishing

  • Web Publishing made easy

    ComponentOne NetHelp is our exclusive Cross-Platform HTML output. Easily create a searchable Help system designed for deployment on the Web.

  • One-click XHTML Output

    Doc-To-Help now generates XHTML versions of all HTML based outputs (NetHelp, HTML Help, Help 2.0, and JavaHelp). The content generated complies with the W3C transitional XHTML specification.

  • Industry Standard Help files

    Create virtually every popular Help output. Chose from Web-based Help, HTML Help, Help 2.0, JavaHelp, and WinHelp.

  • Powerful Print Output Features

    Create professional printed documentation from Word or HTML source complete with a customizable title page, table of contents, index, and glossary – without any adding field codes, page breaks, or headers/footers. You can automatically create a print-ready PDF manual and skip the manual-to-PDF conversion process.

  • Generate PDFs Two Different Ways

    Doc-To-Help produces printed manuals in .PDF and/or Word format. Generate your .PDF directly from Doc-To-Help or from a generated .doc file. This gives you the option to format your manual before you generate the .PDF. No need for third-party utilities either.

  • Section 508 Compliant Output

    Doc-To-Help creates a version of NetHelp that is Compliant with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

Advanced Developer Features

  • Microsoft Sandcastle Plug-in

    Microsoft's Sandcastle utility automatically creates MSDN formatted reference documentation from .NET source code and XML comment files. Doc-To-Help integrates Sandcastle's XML output into your projects, automatically creating topics, index, TOC, and other Help elements. You can build on this information by editing/adding your own topics, and linking to namespaces. This content integrates with the Help system in Visual Studio .NET (Help 2.0).

  • Command-Line Support

    Build a Doc-To-Help project from the command line.

  • XML Transforms

    Use XSLT or .NET to add your own topic features in XHTML-based outputs.

  • Scripting Support

    Use Visual Basic® to create custom scripts and assign them to styles to develop your own features.

Buzz

"Authoring multiple variations of a Help file for the same Help platform has always been a headache for me. But ComponentOne Doc-To-Help not only supports this ability, it's incredibly easy to use and far more flexible than I would ever have expected. I tried it today, and it worked beautifully."

Scott Willing
Technical Writer

"This is my first serious experience in using Doc-To-Help since the 2000 version. It is a totally different program from the one I used to know. I like what I see and I am going to REALLY like it. Yes, I will recommend it to other Help Authors."

Jo Francis Byrd
Byrd Writes Communications

Awards

Visual Studio Magazine June 2007 Visual Studio Magazine June 2006
Society for Technical Communication 2006  

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