Feature comparison matrix

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General Features	Conc	Pro	Std

Individual installation per workstation You install Help & Manual on a particular computer and the license can only be used on this computer.
Concurrent Use You install Help & Manual on a network. The concurrent user license is a floating license that can be used on any workstation in the network.
Multi-user editing Multiple users can work on the same project at the same time. No special server software is required.
WYSIWYG XML Editor Help & Manual is a WYSIWYG XML editor that feels like Word. You don't need to know anything about XML to work with it.
Edit XML sources directly Sometimes you might want to modify the underlying XML sources directly.
Uncompressed XML data sources Help & Manual 5 uses uncompressed XML as project file format. The XML data source can be translated with external translation tools. It can also be created and maintained by 3rd party applications outside Help & Manual.
Unicode support Full Unicode support, meaning you can create help files in up to 106 languages, including Asian languages.
Localization support Project synchronization and the option to save a project in uncompressed XML format make translation with external tools easy.
RoboHelp® Import Help & Manual can directly import RoboHelp® X5 project files.
Template Support Use and modify HTML templates for topics pages, layout templates for PDF and print, skins for e-books and browser-based help.
Export with skins Use predefined HTML skins to export your documentation with professionally designed layouts at a mouse click.
Create user defined skins Customize existing HTML skins or create your own.
Single source Help & Manual creates all output formats (see below) from one single source without post-processing.
Conditional Output Include/exclude conditions are supported for chapter, topic and text level. You can customize the export with an unlimited number of user defined builds.
Text Variables In addition to include/exclude options on text level, use predefined text variables or create your own.
Dynamic cascading styles Use text, paragraph and tables styles to format the content. All styles support different media types for screen and printed outputs.
Toggles (dynamic HTML) Toggles are expanding and collapsing text implemented by dynamic HTML. Help & Manual 4 Professional has supports text and image toggles for easy structuring of procedure topics.
Integrated hotspot editor Help & Manual has a built-in hotspot editor for graphics with dedicated support for topic links, external links, file links and macros.
Comments and bookmarks Add design time comments anywhere in topics and bookmark topics for later review. Topics also support a topic status, to highlight, filter or sort topics.
Modular help Seamless integration of multiple projects into each other and merged ouput. Runtime merging is optionally possible if supported by the output format.

Output Formats	Conc	Pro	Std

Webhelp Platform independent HTML with Javascript, includes navigation elements with table of contents and keyword index.
Webhelp with full-text search Platform independent Webhelp with integrated full-text search.
HTML Help (.chm) Compiled HTML Help, the standard Windows help format.
Adobe PDF Built-in PDF engine with visual layout designer.
Visual Studio Help Compiled HTML Help format, mandatory for software component documentation in Visual Studio and other development tools.
Winhelp (.hlp) Old Microsoft Windows help format for legacy projects.
Microsoft Word User manual in RTF format optimized for Microsoft Word.
e-Books e-books in Windows 32 bit executable format with customizable skins.
Print Manuals Direct printing of user manuals formatted with a visual layout designer.

Tools Included	Conc	Pro	Std

Screen capture The built-in screen capture tool creates stunning screenshots at a mouse click.
Image editor Use the integrated image editor to resize and enhance screenshots, add annotations, callouts and text.
Keyword Index Tool An interactive keyword index tool helps you design the index.
Synchronization Tool Quickly synchronize two help projects and update changes in language pairs.
Context Help Tool Support for context sensitive help is fully integrated. Help & Manual additionally can export and import help context number maps.
Project reports Extensive reports document the status of your help project.
Syntax highlighter Quickly format source code examples for Visual Basic, C++, Pascal or SQL statements.