Locate and update hyperlinks in bulk, filtered keywords and improved documentation generation speed in HelpNDoc 8.3

Locate and update hyperlinks in bulk, filtered keywords and improved documentation generation speed in HelpNDoc 8.3
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.3, 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 or delete multiple hyperlinks at once from the project analyzer, an enhanced “find and replace” dialog with hyperlink searching capabilities, the ability to filter keywords to only display the ones associated with the current topic, a greatly improved documentation generation speed and much more… Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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HelpNDoc 8.2: New pre-build actions, Run external programs, Improved auto-completion and more

HelpNDoc 8.2: New pre-build actions, Run external programs, Improved auto-completion and more
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.2, 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 pre-build actions, which are run before the documentation generation process; a new build action to run external programs; a redesigned auto-completion dialog to quickly create links to topics and anchors or insert library items; improved HTML generation with better SEO and much more…

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Why Use a Help Authoring Tool Instead of Microsoft Word to Produce High-Quality Documentation?

Why Use a Help Authoring Tool Instead of Microsoft Word to Produce High-Quality Documentation?
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When it comes to creating high-quality help files, user manuals, documentation websites, or eBooks, Microsoft Word is not the best tool for the job. In fact, it can be a real pain to use and the results are often far from satisfactory: managing multiple interconnected documents with Microsoft Word is very hard, error-prone, and time-consuming. A Help Authoring Tool (HAT), such as HelpNDoc, is much simpler, faster, and therefore cheaper to use. Plus, it can generate multiple output formats out of a single source.

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Run post-build actions when the documentation is generated and create topics from a template in HelpNDoc 8.1

Run post-build actions when the documentation is generated and create topics from a template in HelpNDoc 8.1
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 8.1, 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 and enhancements such as the ability to define post-build actions which are run after the documentation generation process for each build; the ability to select a snippet as the default topics' content; an improved topic editor with the ability to display smaller library items; and much more... Read on to learn more and download your free version of HelpNDoc now.

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Encrypt and sign Word and PDF documents, use SVG images, and override styles for each documentation output in HelpNDoc 8.0

Encrypt and sign Word and PDF documents, use SVG images, and override styles for each documentation output in HelpNDoc 8.0
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We are glad to announce the new major version of the popular HelpNDoc help authoring tool, which can be downloaded completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes. This major update includes a ton of new features and enhancements, such as a completely revised architecture as HelpNDoc is now a 64-bit application for improved speed and memory usage; It can now sign, encrypt and password-protect both Word and PDF documents; It supports scalable SVG graphic images in all documentation formats; It allows for styles to be overridden for each documentation output; and much, much more…

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How to setup and update pictures’ properties throughout your documentation projects

How to setup and update pictures' properties throughout your documentation projects
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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.

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Mass update pictures’ properties, new font selector with search capabilities and UI refinements in HelpNDoc 7.9

Mass update pictures' properties, new font selector with search capabilities and UI refinements in HelpNDoc 7.9
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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.

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Use snippets as topic templates, reuse topic content, automate topic writing and more in HelpNDoc 7.8

Use snippets as topic templates, reuse topic content, automate topic writing and more in HelpNDoc 7.8
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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.

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