The “import” function enables technical writers to bring in external content, such as text documents, HTML files, and other help file formats, into the current help project, facilitating the reutilization of pre-existing content and ensuring consistency across different documentation resources. HelpNDoc supports a variety of file formats and allows authors to seamlessly integrate and organize imported data into their help documentation, ensuring that consistent, comprehensive, and accurate information is readily available without the need for redundant manual data entry.
You can use HelpNDoc to import and convert a CHM help file into a PDF document. The PDF document contains not only the content from the CHM file, but also the images, hyperlinks and organizational structure, including the table of contents. After importing the CHM help file, you have the option of updating the content.
Users expect their documentation to be easily accessible from the wide variety of devices available to them such as the popular eBook readers. Unfortunately, those eReaders can't handle the CHM file format. Using HelpNDoc, it is easy to import an existing CHM help file and convert it to an ePub or Kindle eBook.
The Microsoft WinHelp HLP file format was introduced with Windows 3.0 in 1990 as the default help file format for the Windows operating system. As of Windows 10, Microsoft doesn't provide any HLP file viewer anymore, making this legacy help file format unusable. Fortunately, HelpNDoc can import existing WinHelp HLP file and convert them to the standard Windows Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file format.
Microsoft Word, and similar word processing software such as LibreOffice, are great to write and format documents meant to be printed, but not so good at producing HTML websites from those documents: they generate suboptimal single-page HTML / CSS code which is not optimized for different screen sizes and devices such as smartphones. By leveraging the import and export capabilities of a help authoring tool such as HelpNDoc (which is free for personal use), it is extremely easy to convert a Word document to a fully functional multi-page and responsive HTML 5 website. Let’s dive in...
You can use HelpNDoc to convert a Word Doc or DocX document into an ePub or Kindle eBook. The ePub and Kindle eBooks contain not only the content from the Word document, but also the images, hyperlinks and organizational structure. After importing the Word document, you have the option of updating the content.
You can use HelpNDoc to convert an ePub eBook into a PDF or Word document. The PDF and Word documents contain not only the content from the ePub file, but also the images, hyperlinks and organizational structure, including the table of contents. After importing the ePub file, you have the option of updating the content.