Focus on writing, let us do the rest

The user interface of Help & Manual is incredibly easy to learn: it comes with a familiar three-pane layout, similar to help files, and feels like word processor. However, while easy and comfortable to use, a huge set of powerful tools are right at your fingertips. Help & Manual saves its content as pure XML, a safe investment for your work.

Animated welcome screen in Windows 8 Metro look	Welcome screen with updates and news	Backstage view with recently opened files and favorites	Project overview with quick statistics
Help & Manual main form with topic text editor active	XML source code editor	File menu with Save As screen	Project Explorer - the navigation center

Features you won't find in other help tools

Why does Help & Manual make such a difference? It's the painstaking attention to detail, the wealth of helpful small features that make your daily work with Help & Manual such a pleasure.

Open multiple topics in separate tabs, edit topic text and page properties side by side	Multiple TOCs in a single multi-functional TOC - conditional output is a key feature of Help & Manual	The single-source approach goes far beyond multiple TOCs - here are two external modules seamlessly merged when published	Using variables makes single-sourcing a lot easier - you can use variables literally everywhere in Help & Manual
The built-in screen capture tool is great for documenting software	Impict is a full-featured image editor optimized for annotating screenshots	The project report gives you a detailed overview of the state of your help project	Documenting source code examples is easy - with code formatters for more than 50 programming languages

Publishing your Content

With Help & Manual, you write your content once and publish to many output formats, ranging from compiled HTML Help to Webhelp, to fully formatted PDF files to the new Apple iPad e-book format.

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 publishing tasks and command line options.

Help & Manual's output formats	Selecting a skin for for publishing	Publishing tasks combine multiple outputs into one comfortable task	Publishing tasks can be initiated from the command line
HTML template editor for Webhelp output	The Webhelp publishing format can be deeply integrated into your website	Inserting a YouTube video in Help & Manual	YouTube video playing in Webhelp in a lightbox overlay
Same project published as Microsoft HTML Help (.chm)	Once more, this time as PDF manual. You define the print layout.	Help & Manual can publish directly to the Apple iPad as well	iPad export configuration screen
E-book, opening on an iPad	Two pages side by side in iBooks (landscape view)	Single page in iBooks (portrait view)