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FHteam
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2005 15:46
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HelpNdoc by IBE Software
Programming → Help File Tools
HelpNDoc is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive tool to create html help files. HelpNDoc provides a clear and efficient interface to build 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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Bjorn
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# Posted: 13 Nov 2007 06:15
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It is a GREAT Program to use. It is the best one (1) so far that I have come accross.
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derelict
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# Posted: 16 Nov 2007 16:21
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I agree; after trying a variety of other help-creation packages, I kept coming back to this one. If you check out my Wizard's Castle game on this site, the help system in that was created using HelpNDoc, took me about half an hour to create, and I don't know *anything* about creating helpfiles. Highly Recommended!!
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BobF
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 03:59
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I had struggled for weeks with Micro$soft's help system, trying to get a 60+ page user guide in Word compiled into a help file, and frankly it was absolutely useless (why do they make things so difficult?)
Then I came across HelpNdoc. What a superb program! In less than a day I had a functioning help system. It just took a bit more tweaking to tune it up. I can add pictures and graphics without any hassle, and chop and change what I want. I needed to have context sensitive help for an Access database, and it allows me to do that easily.
Thoroughly recommend it!
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derelict
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# Posted: 6 May 2009 09:37
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One small criticism I have of this program. I registered a copy of HelpNDoc at work, for a project there. One of the nice things about it is that, in addition to creating the compiled help file, it automatically also generates an html document tree in exactly the same format as the help file, so you can add your program help to your website. This is very nice!!
However, there's one quirk to it; they have cookies enabled, and every time you select a new page, it ask you to approve a new cookie. Not only that, even if you say "use this answer for all cookies from this site", it keeps asking on every page. That's really annoying, and useless. I eventually figured out that I can edit a file in their html tree and disable cookies, but there's no way to tell the *program* to disable cookies; every time you re-generate your project files, you have to go in and manually disable cookies in the output. Not a big deal, but annoying.
The bigger problem, for me, is that I tried sending support requests to the authors, and I have *never* gotten an response of any sort, nor have they fixed the issue in subsequent versions. I have *two* registered copies of this program, and I would think I should get support from the company, but they just don't do that. Nor are there any support forums where I could try to post questions.
So users should just be aware of that. HelpNDoc is *still* an excellent program, just don't expect any support if you have any issues with it.
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