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
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
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google which can track various anonymous information about users visiting a web-site, such as which page have many views and for how long. It can generate many detailed reports on how those users behaved and is a key tool to understand the audience needs and expectations from any online material. Integrating Google Analytics into an HTML documentation is very useful to gain precise knowledge of what viewers were searching for and can be easily done with HelpNDoc’s powerful template system.
This is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of HelpNDoc 3.0 which can be downloaded and used freely for personal and evaluation purposes. Have a look at the feature tour page to have an overall look of all the new and updated features of HelpNDoc 3
Pretty Flow is a freeware application which lets you schedule different tasks on certain periods or certain events like when file changes, and it now includes an HelpNDoc compilation task. This means that you can easily automate your documentation generation based on some trigger you define to strengthen your documentation producing process. Pretty Flow also features a server with a web interface so you can remotely run and control your different automated tasks.
When HelpNDoc generates an HTML documentation, the usual process is to generate it to a local disk drive, review it, then upload it to the web-server where it will be accessible for the end-user. However, when testing the locally generated documentation using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you might notice a broken tables of contents at first, as well as a notification message at the top of the screen mentioning that "To help protect you security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options..." as shown on the following screen-shot
A new review from George Norman at FindMySoft.com finds HelpNDoc powerful, easy and safe to install. "If you decide to download and install the IBE Software-developed application HelpNDoc on your system, you will enjoy the functionality of an easy to use, powerful and intuitive tool to create help files" says the review before pointing out that HelpNDoc is "free of charge. This means you can get HelpNDoc, enjoy the functionality it provides, and keep your hard earned money in your pocket"
