Amazing new template features and customization are available in HelpNDoc 3.4

Amazing new template features and customization are available in HelpNDoc 3.4
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We are glad to announce the immediate availability of HelpNDoc 3.4 with amazing new features and enhancements such as new customization capabilities for templates as well as enhanced HTML and CHM documentation generation to cite a few. HelpNDoc 3.4 brings many requested additions and fixes such as the HTML table of contents which now correctly selects the currently viewed topic

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How to embed a YouTube video in a CHM help file or HTML documentation

How to embed a YouTube video in a CHM help file or HTML documentation
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YouTube videos are extremely useful to easily share an animated content such as a step-by-step guide or an how-to movie. It is worth considering adding a YouTube video in an HTML based documentation, such as a CHM help file, to showcase a procedure and make it more easily and rapidly understandable by the end-user. As an added advantage, the video file won't be embedded in the final documentation but streamed directly from YouTube, thus lowering the final documentation's size. Let's see how fast and easy it is to add a YouTube video to a CHM help file or an HTML documentation using HelpNDoc

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Better UX through Better UA - The Conference for User Assistance

Better UX through Better UA - The Conference for User Assistance
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We thought you might be interested to know that WritersUA, which specializes in providing quality training and publications for the community of user assistance professionals, is planning it's next conference for software user assistance on March 11-14, 2012 in Memphis, Tennessee. The focus of the conference is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces and helpful and accessible support information and is featuring 35 of the top experts in the user assistance field

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Generate touch-optimized documentation with the JQuery Mobile framework

Generate touch-optimized documentation with the JQuery Mobile framework
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We created a new HTML5 template based on the JQuery Mobile framework for the next version of HelpNDoc and we didn't see any reason not to release it before as it is compatible with any version of HelpNDoc 3. So if you don't want to wait, you can download the new HTML template and read on for more information and installation instruction

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Command line and performance improvements available in HelpNDoc 3.0.2

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This is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release: HelpNDoc 3.0.2. HelpNDoc keeps getting better and better and this new version brings back the command line compiler (to silently generate documentation from the command line), and due to popular demand, the ruler (which can be activated from the options dialog) which were not available in earlier versions of HelpNDoc 3

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Better Internet Explorer compatibility and CHM import in HelpNDoc 3.0.1

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HelpNDoc 3.0.1 is available for immediate download and is essentially a bug fix for the recent HelpNDoc 3 release. This new version fixes problems with Internet Explorer 7 and 8 in the generated HTML documentation, with project handling in some cases and reduces memory consumption, amongst other fixes. You can download HelpNDoc 3.0.1 Personal Edition now to benefit from the fixes

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