HelpSmith

Leading Help Authoring Tool to Create CHM, Web Help, and Printed Manuals

HelpSmith  Review

HelpSmith is a visual help authoring tool allowing you to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help , PDF, and Printable Manuals from the same source. The reliable help authoring system provides a powerful Word-like unicode text editor for editing help topics with dynamic styles and live spell checker, advanced approach to working with multimedia files, automatic correction system, and many other useful tools.Based on the original technologies HelpSmith, enables creating technical documentation from scratch and also enables importing help topics from Microsoft Word (.RTF), .HTML, and plain text files that can be written in multiple ANSI and Unicode charsets.You can use HelpSmith to supply help files for your software in multiple help formats including context-sensitive CHM HTML Help files, a standard help format in Windows. HelpSmith supports all the features of HTML Help CHM format, so you can build the tree-type Table of Contents, keyword index, also you can add and customize chm viewer's help windows, etc..If you worked with other help creation tools before, HelpSmith has the Import ability, making it possible for you to import your existing help projects from the .HHP format (Microsoft HTML Help Workshop) or directly from compiled .CHM HTML Help files.The WYSIWYG principle makes the process of using HelpSmith as easy as working with regular office application. And, in fact, you do not have to learn any technical details to develop professional help files with the HelpSmith authoring tool.