Multiple export formats
HelpNDoc lets you generate help files in various formats from a single source.
- CHM: Compiled Microsoft Windows HTML Help;
- HTML: Complete web help optimized for easy online browsing and search engines;
- DOC: Complete help documentation as a Microsoft Word document or RTF file;
- PDF: Standard Adobe portable document format documentation for easy sharing and printing;
Full featured built-in word processor
HelpNDoc includes a complete
WYSIWYG editor with advanced formatting and layout capabilities.
- Advanced paragraph formatting: alignment, indentation, line spacing, tabs and text flow;
- Advanced font customization: character spacing, offset, scaling, superscripts and subscripts;
- Extensive image format support: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, ICO, EMF, WMF;
- Advanced table support: cell padding and spacing, alignment, customizable borders and fills;
- Complete live spell checker with custom dictionaries and automatic corrections;
Easy and optimized workflow
HelpNDoc brings you what you need in an uncluttered and intuitive user interface.
- Table of content editor with instant reorganization and customization;
- Extremely fast topic creation, deletion and customization;
- Advanced keywords editor: easily attach keywords with topics, categorize and manage them;
- Automatic Topic ID and Context number generation;
Advanced authoring helpers
Writing and integrating help files has never been easier thanks to HelpNDoc's advanced functionalities.
- Live external document import: the document will be imported when the help file is generated;
- Project or user defined variables: the variable will be replaced when the help file is generated;
- Project-wide efficient find and replace tool: find a sentence and replace it by a variable;
- Multiple language code generation: C/C++ headers, Delphi units, Visual Basic and Fortran modules to ease help file interaction;
- Extensive command line support to pilot HelpNDoc from an external application, an automated processing or a batch script;