The project library is a centralized location within HelpNDoc’s projects where technical writers can store and manage their help content, such as images, documents, videos, bar codes, equations, HTML code… Reusing items from the library in multiple topics within a help documentation project has several benefits. It improves consistency, saves time and effort, reduces the risk of errors, saves disk space, and keeps the project organized. By using the same items, users can create documentation more efficiently and make changes more easily. Overall, the library is an essential tool for creating high-quality, well-organized documentation.
Are you tired of the constant struggle to keep documentation consistent, up-to-date, and error-free? For technical writers and content authors, managing these challenges can be a daunting task. Imagine you're managing hundreds of help topics, multimedia resources, and styles across a complex project, and suddenly needing to make a change to a key term or remove an image. This is where HelpNDoc's powerful search and replace capabilities become an invaluable tool in your daily workflow.
In the ever-evolving world of documentation and help authoring, the arrival of HelpNDoc 9.1 marks a significant milestone. This latest update isn't just a routine enhancement; it's a game-changer, introducing groundbreaking dynamic content capabilities that set a new benchmark in the realm of help authoring tools. With HelpNDoc 9.1, technical writers and documentation specialists now have a powerful new feature at their fingertips: the ability to create dynamic, responsive, and highly personalized content with unparalleled ease. The dynamic content library item, the centerpiece of this update, empowers users to craft HTML content that is interpreted at generation time. This means that the final output, whether it's a web page, a PDF document, a Word file... can include content that changes based on a variety of factors, such as the current date, the project structure, external file content, or specific project settings. This innovative feature opens up a plethora of possibilities, from creating time-sensitive instructions to tailoring documentation to specific audience segments.
Explore the groundbreaking features of HelpNDoc 9.0, the latest evolution in documentation technology. Discover effortless FTP uploads, customizable library items, an enhanced PDF generator, and a superior HTML importer. Perfect for any documentation needs, HelpNDoc 9.0 is filled with improvements and bug fixes, elevating your documentation quality and efficiency. Available for free for personal use and evaluation, HelpNDoc 9.0 invites you to transform the way you create, manage, and publish documents. Dive into the full article to learn more about these exciting new features and download HelpNDoc 9.0 today!
HelpNDoc, the popular help authoring software, has just released its latest version, HelpNDoc 8.5, packed with several new features and improvements to help authors create even better documentation. Among the new additions are an Equation library item that allows mathematical expressions to be defined and reused throughout a project, a project analyzer that lists individual characters and their number of occurrences throughout the project, and an updated build actions panel that saves and restores properties group positions and column widths. The new version also includes improvements to the scripting engine, documentation generation, and user interface. Let's take a closer look at some of the most notable updates in HelpNDoc 8.5 but first if you haven't used HelpNDoc before or haven't updated yet, we encourage you to download the free personal edition to try out the software and experience these new features for yourself.
Managing media assets such as pictures throughout help files, documentation projects or ebooks can be a daunting task and this is why the HelpNDoc help authoring tool implements a centralized library: media assets are managed from the project's library, and changes are automatically applied to every instances throughout the project. But some settings (such as dimensions, positions, alterative texts...) can be customized for each instance, making them hard to update for frequently used assets. Thankfully, HelpNDoc includes a fantastic timesaving feature: it is able to instantly apply updated picture properties to every instances throughout the project. Let's see how this can greatly simplify and speed up the work of technical writers.
We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.9, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to update every pictures with their default settings; A new font selector with recently used fonts, font preview and search support; An improved Word importer; A new API method to list library items used in a specific editor; and much more… Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.
We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.8, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features and enhancements such as the ability to insert documents and snippets' content into topics and to quickly convert topic content to snippets, new editor and user interface APIs to automate topic creation and modification, improved HTML and document importers and much more... Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.
We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 7.1, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes many new features such as the ability to define default image settings, an enhanced spell checker which now supports snippets, new barcode symbologies, and much more. Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.
We are excited to announce the release of the brand new HelpNDoc 7.0, a major update of the popular help authoring tool which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This amazing new release includes a large amount of new features and enhancements, such as a brand new DocX Importer, a smoother and faster PDF Generator, a completely new Script Engine with faster execution and better reliability, a new "counter" library item and much, much more… Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.
HelpNDoc's stunning user interface has been carefully designed to be as clean and easy to use as possible. It presents the minimum needed to be as fast and effective as possible in writing and producing help files, user manuals and eBooks; Yet it provides advanced features for power users such as the ability to move, resize and place panels wherever you'd like. Let's see how this can be achieved in this article.
