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- Fiberdownload.com has written a detailed editors review about Help & Manual 5.4 and concluded it with a 5 stars award!
They wrote: "Although we're sure you heard it from many users, we have to tell you too that your application is great. We tested it and wrote a review about it which you can find on the above mentioned product page:
In short, Help & Manual is the best possible solution on the market today for developers to keep their own information up to speed and help ensure that they have the highest quality of information possible delivered in the least amount of time necessary to do so. Get a copy for yourself and see what it can do for you." - We are glad to announce that the ground work is laid for using OpenOffice spell checker dictionaries in Help & Manual! While the spell checker in Help & Manual for English is up to the standards, the dictionaries for other several languages are unfortunately not perfect. We need better dictionaries in H&M for German, Swedish, Spanish and couple of languages that are not supported yet. And you are going to get it!
OpenOffice has excellent spell checking dictionaries that can be used for free, and a vivid community helping to update them where necessary. However, using these dictionaries and therefore writing a new spell checker from ground is really a major undertaking.
To make this a little bit easier, we decided to start an Open Source project ourselfs, and publish the spell checker components separately. It's a matter of giving back to the community, too. We are also working very closely with the vendor of the current spell checking engine to combine both our work to our mutual advantage. This is a good example how open source and commercial software can peacefully coexist.
So... Swedish, Spanish, German and Russian help writers, stay tuned. We are working on spell checking and automatic hyphenation. Help & Manual 5.4.0 - Build 1201
Jul 07 2010
This is a minor bug fix update for Help & Manual 5.4.0! This update fixes two small problems: after importing source code documentation with Sandcastle, placeholder text at the bottom each page has been removed. The second bug is slightly more critical - since v5.4, topic keywords are automatically sorted when the topic is saved. Certain combinations of master/subkeywords were not sorted correctly. We recommend to install this updated version.Jun 04 2010
Help & Manual 5.4 with source code documentation and new PDF features released! Read more about the update by following the link below.Best selling authoring tool - again!
Apr 06 2010
It's official: Help & Manual is the best selling help and documentation tool on ComponentSource, the world's largest marketplace and community for software components. Help & Manual climbed up 8 steps ranking number #28 this year in the overall ComponentSource product charts, outdistancing any other help tool.
We are very proud of the Top Product award from ComponentSource. It not only confirms the popularity of our products, but emphasizes the pace at which we are still growing after so many years in business. Well done, EC Software!Help & Manual 5.3.2 and Premium Pack update
Mar 03 2010
We are glad to announce the availability of Help & Manual 5.3.2! This is a maintenance release, free for all version 5 users. The update focuses on minor improvements and and is recommended for all Help & Manual 5 users. [Read on...]Dec 07 2009
Just right before Christmas comes this update of Help & Manual 5.3.1! This is a maintenance release, free for all version 5 users. The update irons out minor glitches in the recently introduced German version and mostly improves performance in combination with version control systems.- This updated build of Help & Manual 5.3 fixes a translation bug in the recently released German version concerning the topic status.
Furthermore, the Help & Manual Premium Pack has been updated to version 1.23 with the following changes:
* Sortable table tooltips in Internet Explorer and CHM (bugfix)
* NoWrap added to headers in sortable tables
* Quotes and apostrophes in topic headers did not work with feedback button Minor update: Help & Manual 5.3 build 1017
Nov 04 2009
This updated build of Help & Manual 5.3 includes a small change improving the character spacing of particular True Type fonts in PDF.Help & Manual 5.3 auf Deutsch verfügbar
Oct 30 2009
Help & Manual 5.3 ist ab sofort mit deutscher Oberfläche erhältlich! Das Installationsprogramm enthält beide Sprachen (Englisch und Deutsch). Neben der deutschen Oberfläche gibt es allerdings zahlreiche weitere Neuerungen. Darunter volle Windows 7 Unterstützung, ein verbesserter Import von Microsoft Word mit Formatvorlagen, erweiterter Robohelp-Import, ein neues Kommandozeilen-Interface und zahlreiche Detailverbesserungen. Eine Komplettübersicht der neuen Features finden Sie unter diesem Link:Oct 30 2009
We are glad to announce the availability of Help & Manual 5.3! This maintenance release is a free update for all version 5 users. If you are using Windows 7, we strongly recommend this update. New features include a German user interface, improved Word and Robohelp import, a new command line interface, browser preview of XML topic files and updated support for version control systems.- EC Software has teamed up with ICanLocalize, an online translation service for translating regular text, websites and, most importantly, Help & Manual projects directly. The service combines the advantages of top-end translation agencies with those of freelance translators. You'll get outstanding service, tailored exactly for the needs of your business, at a lower cost than you can negotiate with freelancers. Over the last two months we have worked closely with the team around Amir Helzer from ICanLocalize to develop a seamless translation workflow for Help & Manual.
Aug 05 2009
Developer Express engineers feature-complete visual components, business frameworks and IDE tools for Visual Studio and Delphi-C++Builder. Their technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and the web in the shortest possible time. [Read on...]- This is a maintenance update for Help & Manual 5.2 with a couple of small changes that did not make it into the recent release.
- Format painter is available on Quick Access Toolbar
- Topic ID prefix is used as a suggestion for image files
- Out-of-resources error on some rare multi-monitor configurations fixed
- When renaming a style not all occurances of the style were changed
- Webhelp output: small Japanese encoding problem fixed
- Page breaks at the beginning of a list could not be removed
- Changing a topic ID and moving to the next topic did not change the topic in the editor
- Double clicking on the TOC while slightly moving the mouse triggered an error
- New registry option whether images are scaled down in PDF output
- Don't miss this events and meed us in Cardiff in September:
European Online Help Conference, 17th - 18th September 2009, Cardiff, UK
WritersUA User Assistance Symposium in Boston, U.S. - September 29, 2009
We will be presenting Help & Manual 5 on the help conference in Cardiff! Take this chance to meet Tim and Alexander in person. Jun 23 2009
We are glad to announce the availability of Help & Manual 5.2! Despite classified as a minor update, this new version really has a long feature list. Many of the new features have been suggested by you in the recent Help & Manual user survey. Check it out!- We are happy to be able to announce the results of the 2009 Help & Manual User survey conducted from May 18 to May 25, 2009. We received 592 responses (555 full responses, 37 responses with some question omitted). We sent survey invitations to all registered users with recent licenses for Help & Manual version 5.
- This is a maintenance update for Help & Manual 5 which fixes two important problems found in the recent 5.1 release. [Read on...]
Maintenance release Help & Manual 5.11
Jan 26 2009
EC Software announces the immediate availability of Help & Manual version 5.11! [Read on...]Dvora Elisheva reviews Help & Manual
Jan 17 2009
It looks to me like the developers of Help & Manual have looked at the best liked features in other Help programs and said, "Let's take the best of them all and combine them." [Read on...]Dec 21 2008
EC Software announces the immediate availability of Help & Manual version 5.1! [Read on...]Help & Manual 5.0.6 available!
Oct 31 2008
EC Software announces the release of Help & Manual 5.0.6. [Read on...]- The new Help & Manual 5 Premium Pack contains 14 professionally-designed "skins" with which you can transform the appearance of your HTML-based output with a single click. [Read on...]
Sep 22 2008
EC Software announces the availability of Help & Manual 5.0.5. [Read on...]Aug 12 2008
EC Software announces the availability of Help & Manual 5.0.4. [Read on...]- EC Software announces that its flagship product Help & Manual 5 has just won the Shareware Industry Award 2008 in the category Best Overall Utility. [Read on...]
Jul 10 2008
EC Software announces the availability of Help & Manual 5.0.3. [Read on...]Help & Manual 5.0.2 Maintenance Update
Jul 04 2008
We just released an updated build of Help & Manual 5 which is available from our download page. The most important changes concern the overal speed of Help & Manual 5, especially when working with large projects and even more so if you use the compressed XML format (.hmxz). This update also addresses all currently known issues. [Read on...]Jun 09 2008
Pure XML, true single-source, concurrent multi-user editing. Just when you thought Help & Manual couldn't get any better, we have a surprise for you that will change the way you think about writing and managing technical documentation: Help & Manual Version 5 is not just an improvement on the current version, it is going to redefine single-source authoring. [Read on...]- This update is recommended for all users of Help & Manual version 4.x and includes three minor fixes. [Read on...]
- Help & Manual 4 comes with an integrated visual designer for print and PDF templates used in combination with help projects. [Read on...]
- A minor maintenance update is available for Help & Manual 4.50. We have fixed a few small annoyances and bugs with this update. [Read on...]
Help & Manual wins ComponentSource Awards
Feb 12 2008
ComponentSource®, reseller of EC Software products and the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components, today announced the launch of its new annual Awards program. At the launch ComponentSource announced the winners of the second annual awards for 2007 for both leading publishers and also their individual products. [Read on...]- HHReg, our popular free HTML Help registration utility has been updated to version 1.2 and now comes with a dual-language binary that contains English and German. HHReg is designed for end users and security is a critical issue! For this reason, HHReg detects the system language and automatically switches the user interface language.
EC Software Help Suite 1.8 released
Jan 09 2008
EC Software Help Suite (EHS) has been updated and now includes packages for Delphi 2007 as well. EHS is a component suite for Borland Delphi that builds a bridge to HTML Help (.chm files) for older Delphi versions and add-ons for context sensitive What's This? help.Dec 07 2007
We are glad to announce the release of Help & Manual 4.5.0! [Read on...]Dec 04 2007
The demo page features two new online demos with video and sound.Simple-Talk reviews Help & Manual
Nov 14 2007
In this article, we will review one particular HAT, Help & Manual, but we'll try to explain a bit about Help Authoring in general too, for the developer who is also required to get involved with the production of application help.
For the end user, it doesn't matter how well an application has been written if the help and documentation is poor.
In the hothouse, geeky culture of an IT development team, the way an application works must seem obvious. In the real world outside it often isn't, but well-crafted help and documentation can ease the cultural gap remarkably well.
The Technical Author is generally responsible for the Help Text, the printed manual, the 'white papers' and the material on the website. It is a daunting task. Increasingly, the work has to be sent to a bureau for translation into other languages; and the content has to survive translation into written languages that go from right-to-left, or vertically, as well as left-to-right. There may still be a demand for the production of a printed manual or PDF file too.
To make the task possible, technical content must have a single source that can cater for all these demands. This is where a HAT (Help Authoring Tool) comes in, and any technical author who works with Windows applications will be familiar with HAT software.
- UBIT - the Austrian National Professional Organisation for Management Consultancy and Information Technology has created the CONSTANTINUS award to promote excellence in consulting and IT-services. [Read on...]
http://www.constantinus.net/award/constantinus-international/introduction/
- Jim Cheshire of Jimco Software and Books writes about Help & Manual: It's not often that a product comes along that is so impressive that it almost seems too good to be true. In fact, I think I can count all such products I own on one hand. After spending a few weeks with Help & Manual 4.3, I can truly say that it has earned a spot as one of those products that seems too good to be true.
- We are currently testing version 4.31 of Help & Manual, a minor but important update. The key features in the update will be improved PDF font embedding, page break handling in table cells and more HTML Help output options. Version 4.31 is due to release by the end of May 2007. If you are interested in testing the new version, please drop us an email.
- Alessandro Carichini for Programmazione.it, an Italian online magazine, reviews Help & Manual. [Read on...]
http://programmazione.it/index.php?entity=eitem&idItem=35985
Charles Akin reviews Help & Manual 4.3
Mar 12 2007
At $459.00 this product is a bargain. I's a fraction of the price of RoboHelp® and in my opinion it does the work just as well as RoboHelp®. Give the trial version a test drive and see if you don't agree.http://www.free-downloads.net/articles/Help_and_Manual_Review
Help & Manual version 4.3 released
Mar 01 2007
We are glad to announce the release of Help & Manual 4.3! This update includes many improvements frequently requested by our user. [Read on...]- Sisulizer just released a new feature in their localization tool: Localization of compiled HTML Help files (.chm). [Read on...]