Screen shots and feature highlights

This page gives you an overview of the many unique features in Help & Manual. Please refer to the feature matrix for a more detailed list of features.

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The Help & Manual user interface

The user interface of Help & Manual has much in common with a compiled help file: You work with the familiar three-pane window with the table of contents always displayed for navigation. Next to the navigation pane is the topic area - the internal WYSIWYG XML editor.

The product is fantastic, it makes my life so much easier and the output looks great! I've already converted large parts of the documentation to H&M and I love it, much easier to work with than AuthorIT.

Robert Aronsson, Intellipool AB

Eight output formats

Help & Manual creates eight output formats, ranging from compiled HTML Help to Webhelp, to fully formatted PDF files to XML.

Build conditions - predefined and user defined - allow different content for every output format. User-defined builds can be used to create customized versions of your online help for a client. And if that isn't enough, the export can be fully automized with command line options.

XML Source code editor

Help & Manual saves project files in XML format, so you can edit the source with any XML editor.

Moreover, you can edit topics in XML format in Help & Manual directly. The integrated XML editor gives you access to the XML source.

Import formats: migration of existing sources

Among the supported import formats are compiled HTML Help, HTML and text files, Winhelp file (source + compiled), Word documents and XML.

To offer a migration path especially for Robohelp users, Help & Manual imports Robohelp X5 (for HTML Help) projects directly.

Customizable HTML templates

The WYSIWYG editor for topics is complemented by an HTML editor for topic templates: topic templates build the "frames" for your topics where Help & Manual inserts the content during help compilation.

Using templates, you not only can fully customize the layout of your help file. It is also possible to export help pages dynamically using variables.

Screen capture and image editor

Impict is the image editor of Help & Manual.
Image editor, huh?

Yes, Help & Manual includes a full-featured image editor! Impict comes with many cool image effects that you typically need when preparing software screenshots for online help.