Full support for Unicode

Help & Manual 4 comes with full support for Unicode! This means that you can now use Help & Manual to edit and generate help in virtually all languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Thai and other languages requiring double-byte Unicode character sets.

Unicode in HTML Help and Winhelp:

Since both Microsoft HTML Help and Winhelp are not really Unicode enabled applications, Help & Manual internally does the necessary character encoding with double-byte character sets automatically. You can edit Unicode help projects on Windows 2000 and Windows XP in any language. (To compile help files, it is required to switch the operating system to the language of the help file.)

Unicode in Browser-based Help:

Unicode is also supported in Browser-based Help output with a switch for generating Unicode-compliant HTML with UTF-8 encoding.

Unicode in Adobe PDF:

The only output format that currently does not yet support Unicode is Adobe PDF. The PDF output engine is going to be upgraded as soon as possible. However, it is still possible to generate Unicode PDF output with Help & Manual 4 if you have the full version of Acrobat or another Unicode-compliant PDF program that can be configured to work as a printer driver.

Important Note: Please note that Unicode support is only included in the Professional version of Help & Manual 4.

XML Export/Import and Support for Translation

Help & Manual generates XML that can be distributed to translators who can then produce versions of the help in different languages without access to the Help & Manual program. The translated version can then be re-imported into the project without losing any of the original layout, formatting and settings.

The XML output is optimized to function with professional translation tools like Trados.

Read more about the XML support in Help & Manual on the next page..