One-click features & layout with Premium Pack 1.2

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The new Help & Manual Premium Pack 1.2 combines advanced HTML functions and professional layout in a single package. In addition to slick layout with tabbed navigation and non-scrolling headers, you also get dynamic sortable tables, a dropdown navigation menu for topics (click to scroll to headings in the topic), a mail feedback button and more.

You just select one of the 14 professionally-designed "skins" when you publish your project to use the layout and add the features you want to use in either WebHelp (browser help) or HTML Help (Microsoft CHM files).

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You can choose from a variety of styles and horizontal or vertical tabbed navigation in WebHelp. In CHM files the normal CHM viewer navigation pane is displayed.

Sortable tables, topic navigation, mail feedback and more

The Premium Pack 1.2 skins do a lot more than just make your output look better. You also get a selection of powerful features that would normally require hours of programming and editing in your HTML and CSS code. All features can be turned on or off when you publish your project.

You can set up tables in your topics so that the user can sort them in your help by clicking in the header cells. You can sort on columns containing text, numbers, dates, currency and physical values like °C.

A drop-down topic navigation menu is generated automatically. Clicking on the menu entries scrolls down to the headings in your topic.

You can create hyperlinks to anchors inside expanding text blocks (toggles). The blocks are opened automatically when the user clicks on the link.

Clicking on the user feedback button in the topic header automatically generates an email to your support address with a full reference to the current help project and topic for your support staff.

Clicking on the Expand/Collapse button opens or closes all the expanding items in the current topic. The button is intelligent - if one or more items are open all are closed, otherwise they are opened.

Clicking the print button sends a printer-friendly version of the topic to the printer, even in browsers that normally make it difficult to print the correct frame.

A breadcrumb trail navigation box with a home button for the main topic in your project is automatically displayed above your topic header. This makes it much easier for the user to see where they are in the project.

Normally you can only display a simple project title in Webhelp. With the Premium Pack skins you can add a descriptive subtitle that is displayed below the title in the navigation pane.

Single-click feature activation

When you select a Premium Pack skin the options for activating its features are automatically displayed in the Include Options box in the Publish dialog. You activate and deactivate features by selecting or deselecting the options:

Configuration without code editing

You don't need to edit any confusing HTML code to configure your skins. All the text displayed in the skins, your support email address, the text in the email feedback form and so on are stored in simple text variables. You can set up everything just by editing the variable definitions.

Full documentation and all source materials included

If you want you can also create your own skins on the basis of the Premium Pack skins. All the source graphics, Photoshop files and other components are included.

Features

Fourteen skins: 7 with horizontal tabs, 7 with vertical tabs, all components royalty-free
Work in both Webhelp and HTML Help, compatible with Internet Explorer 7 and 6 and all other current browsers, including the new Google Chrome browser.
Tabbed navigation in Webhelp
Matched color schemes throughout in all the skins
Non-scrolling headers in the navigation and topic panes
All texts displayed fully configurable with variables – you only need to edit the variable definitions, not the HTML code
Mail feedback button with automatic reference to project, topic, topic ID and topic location, texts escaped to work in all mail clients
Print button for easy topic printing, also in browsers that don't print frame well
Breadcrumb trail navigation box with Home button in the topic header
Easily-configurable 3-frame layout option
Topic URL display at the bottom of each topic as an easy reference for support staff
Non-scrolling "Letter links" in the Index pane, automatic message displayed if there are no entries for the clicked letter
Full source code included.
All Photoshop files and other graphics files included for users who want to make their own versions and modifications

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