HelpNDoc is 10 years old!

HelpNDoc is 10 years old!
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We are extremely happy and honored to celebrate HelpNDoc's 10 years anniversary: HelpNDoc version 1.0 was released on December of 2004 and we still can't believe how far it has evolved, and how popular and essential it is today for a constantly growing number of users. And if HelpNDoc is still alive today, it is because many of you believed in it, talked about it, sent us encouragements, suggestions, bug reports, wish lists... and bought licenses: we can't thank you enough for your continued support throughout the years!

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How to export Help IDs and Help Context numbers for your developers

How to export Help IDs and Help Context numbers for your developers
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Once you've written your help file or documentation web-site, you'd usually like to be able to integrate it with your existing products: when users are having difficulties performing an action, they should be able to launch the help file and be presented with the correct associated topic explaining that specific action. For that purpose, Help Authoring Tools such as HelpNDoc provide two unique identifiers for each topic: an alpha-numeric Help ID and a numeric Help Context number. This makes it possible to reach a specific topic from your software application or web-site. But as a technical writer, you probably won't be in charge of "wiring" that application or web-site with the help file and you'd rather send a list of topic identifiers to the developers in charge. Thanks to HelpNDoc's very powerful script editor, you can easily do that!

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Major performance improvements and bug fixes in HelpNDoc 4.6

Major performance improvements and bug fixes in HelpNDoc 4.6
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 4.6 which is available completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes starting now. HelpNDoc 4.6 introduces major overall performance improvements, an handy breadcrumb navigator, better CHM import, and much much more. Read on to learn more or download your free version now

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ePub importer, multiple enhancements and fixes in HelpNDoc 4.5

ePub importer, multiple enhancements and fixes in HelpNDoc 4.5
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 4.5 which is available completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes starting now. HelpNDoc 4.5 is now able to import ePub files, can optionally disable PDF bookmarks, and fixes various problems including content saving for East-European and Asian systems. Read on to learn more or download your free version now

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Advanced keyword management and custom template path in HelpNDoc 4.4

Advanced keyword management and custom template path in HelpNDoc 4.4
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 4.4 which is available completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes starting now. HelpNDoc 4.4 simplifies the association of keywords with multiple topics, allows the analysis of keywords in the project analyzer, provides configuration options for various paths such as the templates path, generates better Word DocX and Adobe PDF documentation files and includes many enhancements and bug fixes. Read on to learn more or download your free version now

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Use scripts to automate help and documentation creation

Use scripts to automate help and documentation creation
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HelpNDoc is so easy to use that a complete multi-format and multi-device documentation can be produced in just a few minutes after downloading and trying HelpNDoc for the first time thanks to its intuitive user interface and Microsoft Word-like topic editor. It is also extremely powerful and provides many advanced tools to simplify and speed-up the creation of amazing help files and manuals. One of those advanced feature is the script editor which lets you manipulate HelpNDoc through a scripting language. Let's see how the script editor can help you create the most useful help files in the shortest amount of time possible

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Image maps in your documentation and better eBooks generation with HelpNDoc 4.3

Image maps in your documentation and better eBooks generation with HelpNDoc 4.3
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We are glad to announce the release of HelpNDoc 4.3 which is available completely free for personal use and evaluation purposes starting now. HelpNDoc 4.3 now includes the much requested image map library item which makes it possible to create and include interactive images in your help files and eBooks. It also includes enhanced image customization capabilities, optional inline cover and table of contents pages for ePub and Kindle eBooks as well as many enhancements. Download your free version now and read on to learn more

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Folders in the library, multi-selection, saved expansion status and more in HelpNDoc 4.2

Folders in the library, multi-selection, saved expansion status and more in HelpNDoc 4.2
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We are thrilled to announce the release of HelpNDoc 4.2 which is available as a free download starting now. HelpNDoc 4.2 adds folders to categorize library items, multi-selection to the library and keywords and is able to store the expansion state of all trees in the project amongst many other additions and bug fixes. Read on to learn more and download your free version now

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