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Welcome
Welcome to the kick-off of ComponentOne Doc-To-Help Tech Connection. This is your monthly link-in to the most
recent technologies, resources, and events as well as useful tips, articles, and more. Stay connected with
ComponentOne Doc-To-Help Tech Connection.
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Doc-To-Help 2009: Mature, Innovative, and Complete
Gustavo Eydelsteyn, Co-founder
Seventeen years ago, Doc-To Help emerged as the first Help authoring tool in the market and laid the foundation for Help authoring tools. Today, as an award-winning industry leader Doc-To-Help has set the standard. These years have allowed Doc-To-Help to grow into a powerhouse tool with hundreds of thousands of lines of code behind it, and time has yielded millions of hours of testing and QA. The result is a mature, robust, and stable Help authoring tool. |
As new technologies surface, Doc-To-Help offers releases with enhanced Help authoring solutions. Just around the corner, this September, ComponentOne is planning to release Doc-To-Help 2009. This release will be packed with new features including an XML based editor, drag-and-drop linking, and an embedded Help tool.
In addition to being mature, robust, and technologically advanced, Doc-To-Help is also a complete solution. While other companies force you to buy multiple tools to get your job done, Doc-To-Help bundles all its features into one self-contained product. There is no doubt that with over 200,000 users and over 20 versions, Doc-To-Help is a complete and powerful product. Check out Doc-To-Help 2009, you will not be disappointed.
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| Did You Know About Doc-To-Help’s Drag-and-drop Related Topic Links? |
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Related topics are an invaluable element for online Help files. They give the reader a
very convenient way to navigate to related information. Doc-To-Help gives you a very convenient
way to manage these links for each topic: the Related Topics Editor.
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For each topic, you can see a list of automatically generated related topics as well as those
created manually. You can use this interface to drag topics to the list, to add more links,
delete links, and disable the links altogether. This is just one example of the visual management
features included in Doc-To-Help 2008. If you haven't tried it out, open your copy or
download a trial today. |
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Feature Article
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Publishing Your Policies and Procedures Content to the Web with Doc-To-Help
Brad Keller, Doc-To-Help Product Consultant
Doc-To-Help is obviously known as a leading tool to create user assistance materials from Microsoft Word and HTML content, but did you know it is also popular among policy writers? |
Doc-To-Help allows every level of Word user – from novice to expert – to take the content that they have in their documents and get it online quickly and easily in a very accessible format: NetHelp, Doc-To-Help’s browser-based XHTML output. Leveraging this technology to get your policies and procedures content (anything from training materials to employee handbooks) online is the next logical step. This article will show you how to do exactly that – from the ground up, with nothing but a Word document and your copy of Doc-To-Help.
Read the full article. |
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XML-Based Editor Coming Next Month!
We are very excited to announce that Doc-To-Help’s new XML-based editor will be
included in the next release, Doc-To-Help 2009, due next month. This built-in
WYSIWYG editor includes intuitive project helpers such as comprehensive toolbars
and a style editor based on Microsoft Word’s dialogs. This editor delivers all the
benefits of W3C compliant XHTML while providing a very easy-to-use interface.
You are going to love it!
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ComponentOne Makes Embedded Help Easy
ComponentOne has released DynamicHelp, a Visual Studio add-in that allows you
to very easily add embedded Help application interfaces. DynamicHelp adds a convenient
Help pane in the application interface and gives the author a point-and-click topic
mapping tool. It is available as part of ComponentOne Studio for WinForms and will
be included with Doc-To-Help starting with Doc-To-Help 2009, due next month.
See DynamicHelp in action in the current version of Doc-To-Help’s interface.
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Doc-To-Help and DemoWorks are Bundled for Great Savings
ComponentOne DemoWorks allows you produce professional quality demonstration
videos without programming, multi-media, or graphic design expertise. Since DemoWorks
is a great companion to Doc-To-Help, we are offering both for one low price.
Learn more about DemoWorks by visiting our Web site.
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Recent Awards
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Jolt Productivity Award
ComponentOne DemoWorks was named Jolt Productivity Award in the Utilities category.
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Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Merit Award
ComponentOne Doc·To·Help was voted by VSM readers to receive the Visual Studio
Magazine Readers' Choice Merit Award. |
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August Quick Survey
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