Posts Tagged Webhelp
A great example of integrated WebHelp from Scooter Software
Posted by Alexander Halser in User Community, WebHelp on April 27, 2017
We recently worked with Scooter Software to better integrate their online help into their website.
Scooter makes BeyondCompare, the best multi-file comparison tool on the market. We use BeyondCompare ourselves to synchronize and merge source code changes and Scooter uses Help+Manual for producing their own documentation.
A WebHelp version of BeyondCompare’s documentation is also available online. The old version didn’t match their beautiful Steampunk theme, which we really love. That was a pity, because Help+Manual is extremely powerful when it comes to embedding help content into your website.
This has changed in their gorgeous new version, however: Starting with a draft of a new WebHelp skin that matches the design of their web pages, the web designers at Scooter then fine-tuned the skin and fully integrated it in the host pages. The result is a beautiful example of what is possible with Help+Manual with just a little extra tweaking:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/v4help/
Help+Manual 7 Maintenance Update
Posted by Alexander Halser in Software Updates on July 7, 2015
We have updated Help+Manual 7 build 3625! This update fixes a couple of smaller issues in the recent 7.0 release and is recommended for all 7.0 users.
- Manual designer: drawing error with tiled bitmaps
- Topic editor: executing links to anchors in the same topic with CTRL+Click did not work
- Project explorer, TOC: 2 icons were mixed up
- Spell check configuration dialog: access violation error in some rare situation fixed
- Spell check dictionaries: German dictionary changed
- $ symbols at the beginning of topic IDs are permitted again, except for TFS, because TFS cannot handle files starting with a $ symbol
- DOCX export: variables were not always replaced when publishing the document
- RTF import: problem with Unicode bullets fixed
- Variables in the publish tasks were not used in command line mode, if the variable replaced a pre-defined variable
- Comments when shown as icon could not be made fullsize again in the dialog.
- Improved Find & Replace function
Furthermore, we have updated the responsive skins that are shipped as standard skins with Help+Manual to improve compatibility with older mobile browsers.
This is, however, not the last update on the new skins. After the release of Help+Manual 7, we got a lot of feedback on the new responsive Webhelp and we are still working on new skins, to integrate your wishes and requirements. Stay tuned for updated and new skins with more configuration options in the next couple of weeks. Those upcoming minor updates, as well as this one, are of course free for registered v7 users.