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When you hear "I need??...", what's the next word you expect to hear?
Everyone needs help. The more accessible your help, the more value your
customers get from you.
Sageline Software announces its product for making WinHelp what it could
have been?
The Enhanced Help Topics Dialog? (EHTD?) released through Sageline
Publishing (www.sageline.com/EHTD/EHTD.html).
If you are a help author, Sageline's EHTD? will give you the most desirable
aspects of HTML Help without the complexity. You see, we solved several
significant problems by replacing the WinHelp Help Topics dialog and
restructuring some of the underlying WinHelp functionality as we think it
would have been, if 32-bit WinHelp had seen a second release. This is all
accomplished with the EHTD32.DLL
How will EHTD? help your users? Top ten ways:
1.) Modeless Design ? Both the dialog and the help system remain visible.
The user maintains a sense of context and can browse the information using
the new dialog's enhanced functionality.
2.) Fully-syncing Contents ? The Contents tab tree allows syncing to all
navigation in the WinHelp window enabling the user to see topic
relationships. Why leave your users "lost in [hyper]space"?
3.) Resizable Dialog ? The user can resize and reposition the dialog, and
the system remembers size and position for future access.
4.) Print Flexibility ? Do your users want to print a single topic, multiple
non-contiguous topics, part of the Contents tree? Give them the choice.
Suppose they change their mind? Just unselect topics not wanted, or review
a print queue listing in the Print dialog before they print.
5.) Enhanced Index Tab ? Topics attached to keywords are always visible;
user browsing of topics with no lost context.
6.) Enhanced Find Tab - Topics related to search terms are always visible;
user browsing of search hits with no lost context.
7.) Enhanced History List Tab ? The user browse history is fully accessible.
8.) Single Click Access ? Single clicks access topics from all tabs.
9.) Font Control ? Users can change font and font size of most tab lists.
10.) Enhanced Back and New Forward Button ? The Back and Forward buttons
follow the user's path, just like in web browsers. And, it works across
different windows without the complex macro solution that Microsoft created.
And, it's on the History tab, too.
How will EHTD? help you (besides improving your product)?
1.) Simple Installation - An install wizard simplifies including the EHTD?
in a project, and the TOC uses the existing WinHelp CNT file to create its
HTD file.
2.) Flexible Use - You want flexibility? Use this enhancement with any
authoring environment!
3.) Deeper Indexing - Unlimited levels, and true See and See also scrolling.
4.) Squashed Bug ? The first-level entry bug that forced authors to create a
stub index entry for the first level term, even when there was no good
match, is eliminated. Sageline's EHTD? allows unattached entries as level
placeholders without corrupting the sorting.
5.) Author's Baggage On Board ? Store and retrieve files in baggage.
Authors may include documents, spreadsheets, or any other file for
distribution and access from their help system within the HLP file. Protect
your included files from alteration or accidental deletion.
6.) Easy upgrade - One year of free upgrades and bug fixes. Just download
the new file and it automatically works on your existing EHTD enhanced help
system. Licensing is handled transparently.
What's the cost? Where is Sageline? How about a Demo?
$89 per help file or Master Help system accessed through main help file,
$99 with AnswerWorks support. Contact Sageline Publishing for pricing on
Master help systems with individually accessible help files, multiple
license packages, and organizational licenses. See our website at http://www.sageline.com/EHTD/EHTD.html, read all about it and download a
fully-functional demo.
Contact us at EHTD -at- sageline -dot- com
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William Meisheid "Thoughts still and always in progress"
WUGNET/Help Authoring Forum Sysop & Microsoft MVP
Certified RoboHELP Training http://www.sageline.com
Sageline Publishing 410.465.1548 Fax: 410.465.1812
70713 -dot- 2225 -at- compuserve -dot- com or wgm -at- sageline -dot- com
