QuickHelp Linux 1.1
[ Thanks to Harold
Halbleib for this link. ]
Excel Software today announced the availability of QuickHelp for
Linux. QuickHelp is a development tool for creating and deploying
application help to Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows 95 through XP and
virtually all Linux distributions. Help information for Linux has
traditionally been delivered as ReadMe files, man pages or a loose
collection of html files. These approaches are awkward and
inadequate for desktop applications. QuickHelp brings professional
application help to Linux KDE and GNOME desktops.
New features in QuickHelp Linux 1.1 include formatted images,
conditional topics and text within a topic, improved font handling
and compatibility with the new Windows and Macintosh editions of
QuickHelp. QuickHelp is unique in its ability to manage, author and
test help topics in a single tabbed window running on your platform
of choice, then deploy the help system to virtually any computer.
Simplicity and productivity replace complex html tag editing,
cumbersome topic management, time-consuming build and test
approaches and different authoring and deployment tools for each
platform. Help information resides in an XML file distributed with
a native viewer executable for each platform.
QuickHelp consists of a QuickHelp Builder for authoring help
systems and a QuickHelp Viewer for deploying them to end-users. For
the end-user, QuickHelp supports a table of contents, an index with
automatic search field, word searches across topics, color
highlighted topic text with hypertext links, formatted images and
context sensitive help from application menus and dialogs. From the
Contents panel, the user can view, expand or collapse topics. Use
the Index panel to locate topics based on index words. Forward and
backward buttons navigate through recently viewed topics.
For the developer, the Edit panel is used to add, edit, delete
or move topics within the Contents tree. Formatted text, images and
links between topics can be quickly added. Each topic has fields
for defining index words and context sensitive identifier strings
that link topics to application menus and dialogs. Topics or
portions of a topic can be conditionally visible based on the
current platform or other variables. The General panel has buttons
to save, open, close, verify, import or export help topics.
QuickHelp handles administrative activities like maintaining topic
links, reordering topics and locating bad links, missing indexes or
images.
QuickHelp Linux at $195 includes Builder and Viewer executables
for Linux, a license to freely distribute the QuickHelp Viewer, a
printed manual, online help and PDF manual on CD. Site licensing
information, product descriptions and online ordering are available
at www.excelsoftware.com. Excel Software has over 15 years of
experience in providing tools to thousands of Macintosh, Windows
and Linux developers in over 40 countries.