Better import with full text formatting preserved

Help & Manual 4 can convert and import the following formats, preserving virtually all of the original structure and formatting:

RoboHelp® X5 for HTML projects
HTML and plain text files
Compiled HTML Help .CHM files
Compiled Winhelp .HLP files and Winhelp project source files
MS Word RTF files

You can also copy and paste text with complex formatting, graphics and tables to and from Microsoft Word, also with virtually all formatting intact.

New: Visual Studio Help (MS Help 2.0)

This has been introduced for programmers who need to document components created for integration in Visual Studio .Net and for Borland Delphi 2005. Microsoft has decided not to release Help 2.0 for any other purposes but many programmers have asked for this functionality and now we have provided it.

Important Note: Please note that the support for Visual Studio Help/MS Help 2.0 is only included in the Professional version of Help & Manual 4.

New and improved Webhelp

Wehbhelp output has been completely rewritten from the ground up, introducing full-text search and radically improved navigation and browser compatibility, both for all current platforms and for older and security-restricted browsers.

The new Webhelp "downgrades gracefully" when it encounters older browsers with restricted capabilities – some of the more advanced dynamic features will then be disabled, but the help will still be fully functional.

The old version had either JavaScript or plain HTML, and you had to decide which you wanted to use when you compiled. The new version integrates both in the same output and works reliably with all browsers from MSIE 6 back to early versions of Netscape. It has also been tested extensively on Linux browsers (including Konqueror, which couldn't handle the old version at all) and Mac browsers. In other words: You can now have your cake and eat it too.

Important Note: Please note that the support for full-text search in Webhelp is only included in the Professional version of Help & Manual 4.

Javascript Popups

Help & Manual 4 introduces a new popup topic mode called JavaScript popups that works equally well in both HTML Help and Browser-based Help. Click here for an example. As the name suggests these popups are implemented with JavaScript, so in Webhelp they will only work if the user's browser supports JavaScript.