Authoring Tools
  

The following products provide comprehensive solutions to authoring Windows Help systems, designing web sites, and managing content. We've also included utilities that address specific needs.

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Help Authoring Tools

AuthorIT: AuthorIT Software Corporation Ltd.
www.author-it.com

Whether you are an individual author or a large corporation, AuthorIT V3.0 is the only Documentation tool you will ever need. Author content once, change it in one place, reduce errors and re-work, minimize reviews, and eliminate duplication. Manage content and resources, control workflow, and meet deadlines. Publish print, online help, and web documents. Improve productivity and achieve significant cost savings with AuthorIT.

Doc-O-Matic: toolsfactory software Inc
1005 Terminal Way, Suite 110
Reno, NV 89502, USA
support: http://www.doc-o-matic.com/support.shtml

Doc-O-Matic creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Application Documentation, and User Manuals. Doc-O-Matic parses C/C++ and Delphi/Pascal. Doc-O-Matic comes with its own integrated editor for authoring Help systems in HTML, HTML Help, Windows Help, and printable PDF manuals from one single source.

Doc-To-Help: ComponentOne LLC
201 South Highland Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
sales@componentone.com
www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/DocToHelp/

Doc-To-Help empowers technical communicators, Help authors, policy writers, and other content authors to easily publish information online, in Help systems, or printed manuals using a single Microsoft Word or HTML document. Doc-To-Help's unique conversion technology allows authors to maintain content in Microsoft Word or popular HTML editors and publish multiple versions and multiple formats with a single click. In the end, Doc-To-Help streamlines information publishing and provides professional quality presentation without requiring technical knowledge

Document! X: Innovasys
Phone: +44 1252 860265, Fax: +44 1252 860273
sales@innovasys.co.uk
www.innovasys.com/products/dx2008/overview.aspx

Document! X automates the process of creating and maintaining documentation for Microsoft, NET Assemblies, Visual Basic/VBA source code, databases, compiled COM components, and Type libraries. Output is HTML Help or Help 2.0 project.

EasyHelp Software: Eon Commerce Ltd.
8 Bottrells Lane
Chalfont St. Giles
Bucks HP8 4EX England
www.eon-commerce.com or jeff.hall@eon-commerce.com
EasyHTML: www.easyhtml.com
EasyHTML/Web: www.easyhelp.com

WinHelp and HTML editors created by Eon Commerce for producers of bulk online documentation, manuals, etc. These tools convert Word documents to HTML or CHM with minimal effort.

FAR: The Helpware Group
Melbourne, Autralia
info@helpware.net
www.helpware.net/FAR/index.html

Shareware authoring tool. Multi-file, HTML friendly, Search and Replace. Create MS HTML Help 1.x and MS HELP 2.x with the click of a button. Help Wizards make it easy to convert HTML Webs into MS Help. Add a Table of Contents to your web site that will work with any browser. CHM file Link checker. Dozens of other helpful utilities make this a "must have" tool for every help author and developer.

XDK (XML Development Kit): Virtual Media Technology
www.vmtech.com/xdk.htm

A powerful authoring tool for creating and updating online documentation and Help systems, from simple document conversion to advanced online authoring.

Help & Manual: EC Software
Suedtirolerstr. 1b
Seekirchen, 5201
Austria
Phone: +43-6212-7838, Fax: +43-6212-4724
info@ec-software.com
www.ec-software.com

Help authoring tool for creating and editing online help projects and exporting them to a variety of different formats. Output your initial help file into print manuals, Adobe PDF, HTML Help, HTML, Winhelp, and other file formats. Help and Manual is a single source help authoring tool that provides you with the means to take advantage of all the individual strength and features of each file format.

HelpBreeze: Solutionsoft
370 Altair Way, Suite 200
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone: 408-736-1431
75210.2214@compuserve.com
www.solutionsoft.com/hlpbrz.htm

Help authoring tool with full support for Microsoft's HTML Help and Sun's JavaHelp. Additionally, HelpBreeze automatically creates professional quality printed documentation and plain HTML (complete with table of contents and index) suitable for the web or your intranet. HelpBreeze is a complete, single-source documentation solution.

Help Magician Elite: Software Interphase, Inc.
11 Institute Lane
North Scituate, RI 02857
Phone: 401-647-2782
sinterphas@aol.com
www.sinterphase.com/hmelitefr.asp

Help Magician Elite is the all-in-one, stand-alone WYSIWYG WinHelp Authoring Tool, HTML Help Authoring Tool, and Web Site Builder.

HyperText Studio: Olson Software
4 Anaru Place
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Phone: +64 6 359 1408, Fax: +64 6 359 3962
stefan@olsonsoft.co.nz
www.olsonsoft.com

Try out the HyperText Studio, a WYSIWYG authoring tool to create WinHelp, Web Sites, and HTML Help - all from one tool! See http://www.olsonsoft.com for more details.

eTracker: Solan Technologies
Hamesila 19 st. Nesher Israel
Phone: +972-4-8213312 Fax: +972-4-8214412
solanltd@netvision.net.il
http://www.solantech.com

eTracker is a Real-time user assistance tool for any application, that automatically guides the user through the workflow process, explaining where to click and what to do until successful completion- for maximizing efficiency and reducing TCO. Just as if you would have the best helpdesk specialist standing beside you and telling you what to do and where to click next.

PerformX: Systemik Solutions Pty Ltd
Bensons House
Suite 2, Level 4
52 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9233 7588, Fax: +61 2 9233 7988
performx@systemiksolutions.com
www.systemiksolutions.com/performx.htm

PerformX Wizards are used to design, author, and publish documentation in an easy three-step process. Designed and developed by Systemik Solutions, an innovative software development and documentation consulting group, PerformX is a revolutionary Rapid Documentation Publishing tool.

HelpMaker: Vizacc
602 Woodland Dr. 42
#04-59
Singapore 730602
Phone: +065-3638079
www.vizacc.com/

HelpMaker is an open-source, stand-alone Help authoring tool for Windows 95/98/NT for HTML Help, WinHelp, RTF, HTML/web site, and manuals. HelpMaker is a true WYSIWYG Windows Help writer that creates all types of Help files and printed manuals from the same data.

QuickHelp: Excel Software
19 Misty Mesa Ct.
Placitas, NM 87043
Phone: 505-771-3719, Fax: 505-771-3718
info@excelsoftware.com
www.excelsoftware.com

QuickHelp is a development tool for quickly creating and distributing online Help for Linux applications. QuickHelp consists of a Builder for creating the Help topics and a Viewer for deploying them to end users. The information resides in a single XML file distributed with the QuickHelp Viewer. QuickHelp supports a table of contents, an index with automatic search field, word searches across topics, color-highlighted topic text with hypertext links, and context sensitive help from applications. For the developer, QuickHelp provides a highly productive editing environment to create, verify, and maintain application help.

RoboHelp: Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000, Fax: 408-537-6000
www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/

Adobe RoboHelp 6 is a complete, flexible, and user-friendly system for building, managing, and publishing engaging content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases. It is a core product in the Adobe portfolio for technical communicators.

Captivate: Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000, Fax: 408-537-6000
www.adobe.com/products/captivate/

Adobe Captivate software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills

Sevensteps BV: Sevensteps
Laageinde 23A
4191 NR Geldermalsen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0) 345 580078 (9.00 - 18.00 CET), Fax: +31 (0) 345 580092
info@sevensteps.com
www.sevensteps.com

Software for creating online Help systems supporting HTML, WinHelp, HTML Help, and XML as an output format. Sevensteps Partner program focuses on experienced online Help consultants who want to deliver added value to Help systems they deliver. Sevensteps Designer is a product for consultants wanting to create their own flavor of Sevensteps.

TeeGofer: Steema Software SL
Emili Grahit 31-35, Ent-D
17002 Girona
Catalonia, Spain
Phone: +34 972 21 87 97, Fax: +34 972 21 87 18
info@steema.com
www.steema.com/products/teegofer/overview.html

TeeGofer is a help template builder for Component writers working in Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET.

E.S.T. Help Author Pro: Bitvadasz Kft.
Bitvadász Kft. MaxComponents
Hungary
Budapest XIII.
Váci út 165
1139
info@maxcomponents.net
sales@maxcomponents.net
www.maxcomponents.net

E.S.T. is complete help authoring tool to create the most popular help formats. All output files can be generated automatically from only one single source file without any additional modification.

Supported formats: Standard Windows Help File (HLP); HTML Help Format (CHM); Web Help without Style Sheets (HTML); Web Help with Style Sheets (HTML); Web Help with/without frames (HTML); ANSI Text Format Manual (TXT); Unicode Text Format Manual (TXT); Rich Text Format Manual (RTF); Electronic Book (Win32 Executable).

ViewletBuilder: Qarbon.com
84 W. Santa Clara St., Suite 790
San Jose, CA 95113
Phone: 408-792-3800
info@qarbon.com
www.qarbon.com

Creates fast, effective animated online demos that show how software works. Perfect for training and support because of the visual nature of the presentations. May be integrated into RoboHelp and other programs. Visit www.qarbon.com to download an evaluation version.

ReWorx: Virtual Media Technology
www.vmtech.com/reworx.htm

A tool for producing powerful online document systems automatically from within Word. ReWorx will convert your Word documents using the latest XML technology for reliable formatting and enhanced end-user functionality.

Help Server: 4.ST
Technologielaan 21
3001 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: 32-16-404054, Fax: 32-16-405050
info@4st.com
www.4st.com/pro_helpserver.html

HelpServer is a web-based solution for help and documentation. It consists of a genuine help system that responds to the user’s help requests and presents information in their webbrowser and a tool to create and to maintain information.

Rocket ActiveGuide: Rocket Software, Inc.
275 Grove St
Newton MA 02466
Phone: (617) 614-4300
www.rocketsoftware.com/products/activeguide

Rocket ActiveGuide creates optimal real-time self-service performance support for applications and business processes.

Help Generator: AGORA Software BV
Phone: +31 345 514143
www.helpgenerator.com

The Help Generator offers help authors a new way to add help and documentation to their applications. Instead of making help files from scratch by hand the generator scans the application and produces the required files, including screenshots. The generated HTML files are edited with built-in help editor. The result can be compiled to HTML Help, web based help and documentation in Word. Supported platforms are Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET), Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft Access.

chm2web: A!K Research Labs
Russia, Smolensk
P.Alexeeva b.8, o.52
A!K Research Labs
http://chm2web.aklabs.com

chm2web is a tool for on-the-fly conversion of compiled HTML Help(.chm) files into ready to publish web pages.

Fast-Help: DevHost Ltd
1, Brickyard Buildings
Freshfield Lane, Danehill
East Sussex, RH17 7HQ, England
Phone: +44 (0) 1805 625 297
sales@fast-help.com
www.fast-help.com

Fast-Help is a Windows Help File Generator that produces HTML Help, WinHelp, Website Help, printable manuals, MS Word manuals and PDF.

Help Explorer: HelpExplorer Software
Volgogradskiy str. 38
Moscow, Russia, 105122
www.help-explorer.com/

Help Explorer Server is specially designed to publish offline help files on the Web in whatever format they are: WinHelp (.HLP), Compiled Help Format (.CHM) or even Microsoft Help 2.0 (.HXS).

PocketHelp: e-PocketSetup.com
Av. Praia de Belas, 436 / 22
Praia de Belas, 90110-000
Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil
marcelo@e-pocketsetup.com)
www.e-pocketsetup.com/pockethelp/default.asp

PocketHelp is the first WYSIWYG help files creator and HTML editor for Pocket PC. PocketHelp uses a editor called TAP & EDIT, you insert a topic, insert a topic item, tap in the topic item and edit. It is very easy to use! Now PocketHelp is FREE!

Flare: MadCap Software
www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/

HelpScribble: JGsoft - Just Great Software
22/1 Sanambinnam Rd
Muang Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
sales@helpscribble.com
www.helpscribble.com

HelpScribble is a full-featured, easy-to-use help authoring tool for creating help files from start to finish. Create WinHelp (.hlp) files, HTML Help (.chm) files, a printed manual and online documentation (on a web site) all from the same HelpScribble project. HelpScribble comes with built-in editors for SHG files (clickable bitmaps), WinHelp macros, contents tree, browse sequences, etc.

HelpMapper: Beachside Technical Media, Inc.
1835 US Highway 1 S
Suite 119, Box 273
St Augustine, Florida 32084
sales@helpmapper.com
www.helpmapper.com

HelpMapper is a large scale enterprise solution for one click Context-Sensitive Help. HelpMapper is a non-technical, multi-user, Help product that allows the stakeholders rather than developers to update and maintain Online Help. HelpMapper supports products such as, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Baan, and ASP.NET. Additionally, HelpMapper requires no data conversion of web ready files.

Toolbook: SumTotal Systems
1808 North Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
Tel: +1 650 934 9500
www.toolbook.com
webmaster@sumtotalsystems.com

SumTotal ToolBook is the easiest way to create professional quality interactive training content and simulations. We know that selecting the right tool for the job can be critical to your job, and so the ToolBook team has designed two desktop authoring products to address the unique needs of your organization - ToolBook Assistant & ToolBook Instructor.

Dr. Explain: Indigo Byte Systems
info@.drexplain.com
www.drexplain.com

Dr. Explain captures windows from a live application, creates screenshots and automatically adds references to all window controls: buttons, edit fields, radio buttons, dropdown lists, and other elements. You must just add some description if needed.

Export a project at once into HTML, CHM, or RTF help files with screenshots, color callouts, menus, and index page.

RESITE Recorder Express: Insite Objects, Inc.
10777 Westheimer, Suite 925
Houston, Texas 770
Tel: +1 408-292-1898
www.insiteobjects.com/express.html
www.insiteobjects.com

Rapidly create end-user documentation and dramatically reduce the effort to create compiled help with RESITE Recorder Express. This must-have solution resides right on your desktop, and with a click of a button, records your actions. When you are finished, Express simply exports content to Microsoft Word or XML, allowing you to focus more on your application and less on the documentation.

HelpConsole: Extreme Ease Software
250 - 12011 Riverside Way
Richmond, BC
V6W 1K6, Canada
Phone: (604) 204-0030, Fax: (604) 204-0031
sales@ExtremeEase.com
www.ExtremeEase.com

HelpConsole is a powerful, easy-to-use help authoring tool for creating web-based help systems and PDF manuals. Publish a 'Static' help system to integrate with your Windows or Web application, or publish a 'dynamic' help system on your website that can be modified from anywhere using a standard browser. HelpConsole features a true WYSIWYG design environment, allowing you to see exactly how the resulting help system will appear.

HelpNDoc: IBE Software
support@ibe-software.com
http://www.ibe-software.com

HelpNDoc is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive tool to create html help files and help web sites. HelpNDoc provides a clear and efficient interface to build the most amazing html help files without worrying about the inner working of help file generation. You just have to enter your text in the built-in word processor and hit the "Compile" button to obtain a fully functional help file which looks exactly as you designed it.


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Web Development/XML Tools and Editors

WebWorks Publisher: Quadralay Corp.
9101 Burnet Road, Suite 105
Austin, TX 78758
Phone: 512-719-3399 ext. 501, Fax: 512-719-3606
sales@webworks.com
www.webworks.com

Platform for building powerful web and print based publishing solutions for FrameMaker, Word, and XML document authoring environments. Supports publishing of HTML, XML, PDF, as well as all the current and next generation online help formats.

Auscomp eNavigator Suite: Auscomp
PO Box 75
Patterson Lakes
Victoria, 3197
Australia
Fax: +61 3 9776 2060
info@auscomp.com
www.auscomp.com

Java-based navigation tool for Internet, intranet, or extranet sites.

BBEdit: Bare Bones Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 1048
Bedford, MA 01730 USA
Phone: (781) 687-0700
Fax: (781) 687-0711
www.barebones.com

BBEdit is a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Mac OS. Whether you're working on code for a website, writing programs or shell script, searching log files and extracting data, or simply writing a few paragraphs BBEdit offers many features that will make your task quicker and easier.

Cold Fusion: Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000, Fax: 408-537-6000
www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/

A Web application server that gives your team a complete development platform. Fast and scalable, a proven technology that drives tens of thousands of Web applications in leading companies worldwide.

Dreamweaver: Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000, Fax: 408-537-6000
www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver

Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop a professional Web site, whether you use Dreamweaver's visual layout tools or its text-editing environment.

XDocs: Bluestream Database Software Corp.
nenadf@bluestream.com
www.bluestream.com

Bluestream delivers and deploys XDocs, an out-of-the box DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) enabled XML content management system ideal for budget conscious organizations that are looking to maximize content reusability and repurposing. Built with non-technical users in mind, XDocs is a standard-compliant single sourcing solution that enables technical communicators to create, manage and store large volumes of both XML and non-XML content

HomeSite: Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000, Fax: 408-537-6000
www.adobe.com/products/homesite/

An award-winning HTML editing tool that lets you build great Web sites while maintaining HTML code integrity; gives you precise layout control, total design flexibility, and full access to the latest Web technologies, such as DHTML, SMIL, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript.

EditPad Pro: JGsoft
www.editpadpro.com

EditPad™ ProEditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor or word processor, designed to make text editing as convenient as possible. Write and edit all your plain text files such as source code, scripts, web sites, logs, letters, memos, reports, articles, etc. Edit text more comfortably with the tabbed layout, live spell checking, column editing, etc. Code more easily with syntax coloring, regular expressions, Windows/DOS/UNIX conversions, etc.

HTML Compare: Applian Technologies, Inc.
24 7th Ave.
San Francisco CA 94118
FAX 415-480-1748
www.htmlcompare.com

This tool helps you easily find changes within an HTML file or an entire website. HTML Compare highlights the differences, additions, deletions and modifications of websites. You can also compare directories and create a report of changes to the directory structure. HTML Compare is a fantastic way to find new files and changed graphics.

Oxygen XML Editor: Syncro Soft Ltd
Phone: +40-251-461480, Fax: +40-251-461482
info@sync.ro
www.oxygenxml.com

Oxygen, an XML editor in Java, supports and offers validation for XML, XSD, XSL, and DTD. Features XSLT transformation, Unicode support, FOP support, browser preview, automatic DTD generation, syntax highlight, and code insight.

Style Master: Westciv Webware
www.westciv.com/style_master/

Where many style sheets tools are really repurposed text editors, Style Master is built from the ground up as a specialized style sheets IDE (integrated development environment), featuring everything you need to develop, test and deploy sophisticated style sheets.

TopStyle Pro: NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
www.newsgator.com/individuals/topstyle/default.aspx

From the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle Pro is an award winning style-sheet editor for Windows.

XML Spy: Altova, Inc.
900 Cummings Center
Suite 306-T
Beverly, MA 01915-6181
Phone: 978-927-9400, Fax: 978-927-7447
www.xmlspy.com

XML Spy is an Integrated Development Environment for the eXtensible Markup Language that includes all major aspects of XML in one product. XML Spy is centered around a professional validating XML editor that provides five advanced views on your documents.

XSL Formatter V4: Antenna House, Inc.
3844 Kennett Pike, Suite 200
Greenville, DE 19807
Tel: 302-427-2456
Fax: 302-691-4647
support@antennahouse.com
www.antennahouse.com

The most advanced and powerful XSL-FO software available for formatting XML, DITA and S1000D into PDF and print. Newly released V4.3 now offers support for 64 bit Windows Systems, CGM images, INX output, Unicode 5.0, PDF Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), PDF Digital Signatures, PDF/A, PostScript Output and numerous other enhancements.

The Exchanger XML Editor: Cladonia Limited
216, NUI Business Innovation Centre
Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland
Phone: +353 91 861625
info@cladonia.com
www.exchangerxml.com

The Exchanger XML Editor is a Java-based product that provides unique functionality for viewing, authoring and editing XML data and documents, at a compelling price point. The Exchanger XML Editor offers a broad spectrum of functionality to help XML authors, business analysts and software developers. It features XML Schema, RelaxNG and DTD based editing, tag prompting and validation, Grid view for tag free editing, XPath and regular expression searches, schema conversion, XSLT, XQUERY and XSLFO transformations, comprehensive project management, an SVG viewer and conversion, easy SOAP invocations, and more.

WebTide
webtide.lx.ro

Stylus Studio: DataDirect Technologies
14 Oak Park Drive
Bedford, MA, 01730
stylusstudio@stylusstudio.com
www.stylusstudio.com

Stylus Studio is an XML IDE for working with various XML technologies including XML, XSLT, XML Schema and XQuery. A free trial download is available.

xmlBlueprint XML Editor: Monkfish Software
www.xmlblueprint.com

xmlBlueprint XML Editor is a value-priced and powerful XML editor for the Windows platform. The occasional user will enjoy its speed and ease-of-use. Power users will appreciate its high-quality XML support, such as context-sensitive XML completion and validation of schemas and XML documents against any schema. All major schema types are supported (DTD, Relax NG Schema, XML Schema).

xmlBlueprint XML Editor runs under Windows '98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and costs US $45.00.

Syntext Serna: Syntext, Inc
18819 NE 155th Street
Woodinville, WA 98072-9392
Tel: +1 (425) 749 7449
Fax: +1 (425) 609 0010
info-general@syntext.com
www.syntext.com

Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. Serna lets you collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various sources. Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively transparent to authors. Possible applications of Syntext Serna range from technical and business content authoring to aircraft maintenance documentation systems.


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Graphics Tools

Canvas 11: ACD Systems
Phone:(305) 596-5644, Fax:(305) 406-9802
store.acdsee.com/store/acd/ContentTheme/pbPage.en_forWork/Currency.USD

Cross-platform, technical drawing program that combines image editing, page layout, web graphics, and presentation features into one easy to use application.

FullShot: Inbit, Inc.
P.O. Box 391674
Mountain View, CA 94039
Phone: 800-227-1788, Fax: 408-730-1756
support@inbit.com
www.inbit.com

A 16- and 32-bit, high resolution, true color screen capture utility.

HyperSnap-DX: Hyperionics
3146 Chestnut Street
Murrysville, PA 15668
info@hyperionics.com
www.hyperionics.com

Windows screen capture utilities: HyperSnap-DX screen captures and image editing; HyperCam for AVI movie action and sound captures.

Paint Shop Pro: Corel
www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051#tabview=tab0

Paint Shop Pro is a tool for for editing photos, creating Web graphics, and capturing screen shots.

SnagIt: TechSmith Corporation
2405 Woodlake Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
Phone: (800) 517-3001, Fax: (517) 381-2336
snagit@techsmith.com
www.techsmith.com

SnagIt - the most complete screen capture utility available. Create beautiful presentations, flawless documentation and quickly save online content. SnagIt 7 offers a totally new interface and workflow making it easier for beginners to use, while still providing maximum convenience and flexibility for the screen capture experts.

T.N.T Screen Capture: EC Software
Suedtirolerstr. 1b Seekirchen, 5201
Austria Phone: +43-6212-7838, Fax: +43-6212-4724
info@ec-software.com
www.ec-software.com/products_tnt_overview.html

A 32-bit, high resolution, true color screen capture utility with unique built-in image effects like shadows, transparency, shapes and more.

VidFun: Lawrence Gozum, Applied Insights
100 Oriole Parkway, #310
Toronto, Ontario
M5P 2G8 Canada
appliedinsights.net/vidfun/
73437.2372@compuserve.com

Multimedia file viewing, image processing.

 

Visio: Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA
Tel: (425) 882-8080
Fax: (425) 706-7329
office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/FX100487861033.aspx

Powerful diagramming tool that helps document, design, communicate and automate complex ideas, processes and systems so you can take more effective action. Visio helps you easily document business processes, create and use technical diagrams and capture ideas with brainstorming tools and export them to Word, Excel, or XML.

Camtasia Studio: TechSmith
2405 Woodlake Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
Phone (800) 517-3001, Fax (517) 381-2336
www.techsmith.com
snagit@techsmith.com

Camtasia Studio - the only integrated screen-recording package that produces highly compressed, high-fidelity Macromedia Flash and streaming media output. Record screen activity in real-time, making it possible to record complex and subtle activity. Quickly create naturally flowing content that users can see, hear and interact with for maximum retention.

PNGOUTWin: Ardfry Imaging, LLC
customer-service@ardfry.com
www.ardfry.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dramatically reduce the size of help files and online documentation by optimizing PNG images, or converting from GIF to optimized PNG. Save time optimizing files with PNGOUTWin's easy to use interface, which also supports drag and drop.


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Content Management

Documentum Platform: EMC Corporation
www.emc.com/products/category/subcategory/documentum-platform.htm

Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents and discussions, to email, Web pages, records and rich media — using one common content platform and repository.

HyperDoc: Tedopres, Inc.
1705 South Capital of Texas Hwy, Suite 500
Austin, Texas 78746 USA
Phone: +1 (512) 306-8601, Fax: +1 (512) 306-9320
www.tedopres.com/en/products-services/content-management/

HyperDoc allows you to create content using different types of authoring tools, including FrameMaker, Epic, XMetal and Word. HyperDoc is integrated within any of these authoring tools in the form of a plug-in.

IRREVO: Streamline Technology, LLC
www.streamlinetc.com

IRREVO manages your content review standards and ensures they are applied consistently for all of your content. IRREVO provides reports that will enable you to identify and address barriers to quality content. IRREVO allows your content creation/review teams to calibrate on the everyday application of your review standards.

isoTracker: Lennox Hill Ltd
23 Kensington Court Gardens
London
W8 5QF
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)870 350 1204, Fax: +44 (0)20 7376 1230
www.lennoxhill.co.uk

isoTracker is a web-based document control and document management software product used for the control and management of documents in business management systems such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and others. Additional features include Competency Testing to check on understanding of those documents and Auditing to ensure compliance.

KeyTools: KeyWorks Software
www.keyworks.net

KeyTools is a set of utilities for managing the WinHelp and HTML Help systems on your computer, and for optimizing those Help systems for better performance.

Media 1: Media 1
605 Elliott St., Suite 3
Grand Haven, Michigan 49417
Phone: 616 935 1155
solutions@media1.us
www.media1.us

Media 1 specializes in the development of custom, interactive training solutions for self-paced, classroom, or blended learning delivery. For more than fourteen years, Media 1 has built an extensive portfolio of successful, award-winning learning programs, including customized learning solutions for a variety of business training needs including sales initiatives, product launches, software application training, management training, and workforce development. Media 1 regularly works with multi-national project teams in Fortune 1000 companies to deliver learning programs worldwide. Media 1 is headquartered in Grand Haven, Michigan and is a certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE).

Trove: Maxima
www.maxima.co.uk/Trove

Web-based documentation management software.

TrackStudio
Petra Alexeeva 8-52
Smolensk, Russia
Tel: +7-910-787-16-98
maximkr@trackstudio.com
http://www.TrackStudio.com

Hierarchical issue tracking, bug tracking and documentation change tracking software.

TierDeveloper: AlachiSoft
231 Market Place, Suite 522
San Ramon, CA USA, Postal code: 94583
Phone: (800) 253-8195, (925) 236-3830
Sarah Sana
www.alachisoft.com

AlachiSoft, a California based company, is in the business of providing Software Development Productivity Tools. And, the first tool in this line is TierDeveloper, which helps developers of Enterprise Applications cut down their development time through object-to-relational mapping and code generating capabilities of TierDeveloper. TierDeveloper has been designed to become a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for customers who want to design and develop Enterprise systems in Microsoft Technologies.

Vasont: Vasont Systems
315 Busser Road, Emigsville, PA 17318
Phone: (717) 764-9720
info@vasont.com
www.vasont.com

The Vasont content management system enables organizations to manage and store multilingual content - such as technical documentation, product manuals, and reference materials - as a single source for maximum component-level reuse and multi-channel delivery. Available for small groups, large enterprises, or multiple locations. See our CMS Starter Kit to get started in content management.

AceText: JGsoft
www.acetext.com

AceText™ is a companion that eases and speeds up your everyday computer activities, whether that is writing reports or documents, text editing, programming, collecting information, conducting research, sending and responding to email, messaging and chatting, or any or all of those.

AceText extends the Windows clipboard, enabling you to copy and paste like never before. Take notes, jot down ideas and keep important information at your fingertips. Use templates to quickly communicate via email or instant messaging. Never again type in the same message twice. Store and move around blocks of text to easily edit complex documents. Drag and drop text from web sites and compile research. Instantly find previously saved snippets.

SCHEMA ST4: SCHEMA Electronic Documentation Solutions GmbH
Andernacher Str. 18
90411 Germany
Phone: +49/911/586861-0, Fax: +49/911/586861-70
info@schema.de
www.schema.de

SCHEMA GmbH was founded in 1995 with the goal of creating intelligent, expandable solutions for modern documentation and information management. SCHEMA ST4 is a powerful client/server single-source publishing system. SCHEMA MarkupKit not only converts Word documents into HTML/XML/SGML, but it also turns the Word application itself into an editor for a given XML/SGML DTD or an HTML template. The RTF FormattingKit is an easy to use converter for high quality print publishing of your XML documentation.

XyEnterprise: Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc
30 New Crossing Road
Reading, MA 01867
Phone: 781-756-4400, Fax: 781-756-4300
info@xyenterprise.com
www.xyenterprise.com

XyEnterprise provides organizations of all sizes with content and document management solutions that streamline the information creation and delivery process. XyEnterprise combines its own XML content management, workflow and publishing software with integration services that allow organizations to derive and leverage the inherent value of collaborative creation, management, assembly, and multi-channel distribution of content required in today's dynamic publishing environment.


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Conversion Tools and Utilities

AnswerWorks: Vantage Software Technologies
110 Terry Dr., Newtown Pa. 18940
Phone: 215-579-8390
Vantage-software-info@vantage.com
www.vantagesoftwaretechnologies.com

Tool for adding a plain language interface to WinHelp and HTML Help, allowing users to find information by just typing a question. Works with any WinHelp or HTML Help system authored with any tool.

SmartDoc 95: Oakley Data Services
3 Oakley Close
Sandbach, Cheshire
CW11 9RQ, England
Phone: +44 (0) 1270 759739, Fax: +44 (0) 1270 765272
www.smartcode.com/products/doc/doc.htm
74774.1347@compuserve.com

A Windows Help file printer/extractor.

HCMac: Web Software
19348 Carriger Road
Sonoma, CA 95476
Phone: 707-996-5775, Fax: 707-996-0108
sweetsteve@vom.com
www.vom.com/sweetsteve

Converts WinHelp files for use on the Macintosh and compiles Help projects for use on both Windows and the Macintosh.

HTML Indexer: Brown Inc.
info@html-indexer.com
www.html-indexer.com

The professional tool for indexing HTML files; version 4 includes integrated cross-references, framed output, multi-file output, target frames and windows, expanded undo-redo memory, and much more.

HTMLTidy: W3C
www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy

Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY. Tidy is now being support as an Open Source project on tidy.sourceforge.net

HTML Transit: Systemik Solutions Pty Ltd
Bensons House
Level 4
52 Phillip St
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
ph: +61 (02) 9233 7588
fax: +61 (02) 9233 7988
iml@systemiksolutions.com
www.systemiksolutions.com/transit.htm

Powerful tool for document conversion and publishing. HTML Transit can instantly convert and publish large volumes of content to the web site whenever documents are updated. HTML transit helps to make your website easy to maintain, up-to-date, and consistent in behavior and appearance.

mif2go: Omni Systems
info@omsys.com
www.omsys.com

Fast, accurate conversion from FrameMaker MIF to HTML, XML, printable Word RTF, and WinHelp.

OnDemand Personal Navigator: Global Knowledge Software
475 Allendale Road
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Phone: 610-337-8878
Chris.Burns@globalknowledge.com
www.ondemandgk.com/EN/pages/products/Personal_Navigator/

OnDemand, Global Knowledge Software's flagship product, develops software simulations that are tightly integrated into enterprise applications providing users with context-sensitive training without ever requiring them to leave the application. It provides companies with rapid adoption, broad acceptance, and increased accuracy in the use of its enterprise applications.

Pertinence Summarizer: Pertinence Mining
France
Phone: + 33 1 43 91 45 90, Fax: + 33 1 43 91 45 90
contact@pertinence.net
www.pertinence.net/index_en.html

Pertinence Summarizer creates a concise automatic summary or abstract of text material in the following formats : plain text, HTML, PDF, RTF, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel. Original text can be in one of several languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean , Arabic, plus a few more). Input can be a file on your hard disk, or a file from the Net or some text that you can cut and paste! Your text may be domain specific: chemistry, medical , financial, legal, etc.

Screenbook Maker: JSL Corporation
webmaster@screenbooks.net
www.screenbooks.net

A free tool for quickly creating HTML Help files and online tutorials. Screenbook Maker automates the process of adding screenshots to web pages and HTML Help.

WordToWeb: Solutionsoft
370 Altair Way, Suite 200
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone: 408-736-1431
75210.2214@compuserve.com
www.solutionsoft.com

Add-in to Microsoft Word. Automates the conversion of Word documents to linked HTML pages.

LinKit!: Affixion
Postbus 31
2100 AA Heemstede
The Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)23 5484884, Fax: +31(0)23 5484885
www.contextsensitivity.com

LinKit! is a fully automated tool that enables you to build context-senstive Help without interfering with the application itself.

activePDF Toolkit: XLsoft Corporation
http://www.xlsoft.com/en/products/activepdf/

activePDF Toolkit is the Swiss Army Knife for PDF - virtually any PDF manipulation task can be automated through Toolkit's robust API. With this new version 4.0, you can merge multiple PDFs, apply watermarks, add headers & footers to PDF files and much more. Toolkit 4.0 supports Double-byte characters as well!

CHM eBook Reader for Pocket PC: Microolap Technologies Ltd
22 Tsentralnaya ul
Chernogolovka, Moscow district, 142432
Russian Federation
Phone: +7 496 524 9392, Fax: +7 496 524 9137
sales@gf.microolap.com
www.microolap.com/products/pda/chmreader/

CHM eBook Reader for Pocket PC is used to view various documents such as eBooks, manuals, help files, etc. in *.chm format. The key features include opening CHM files in no longer than 2 seconds and full-text search within CHM file.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter: Antenna House, Inc.
3844 Kennett Pike, Suite 200
Greenville, DE 19807
Phone: 302-427-2456
Fax: 302-691-4647
sales@rainbowpdf.com
www.rainbowpdf.com

A powerful enterprise software solution to convert MS Office documents, image files or text files to PDF and SVG on a server without the need to install MS Office or Adobe Software.

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