HelpStudio 3 released

Innovasys has announced the release of version 3 of their popular Help authoring tool, HelpStudio.

HelpStudio 3 includes the following new features:

  • Multiple language authoring, using locales for management.
  • Widgets, which allow you to create and edit complex content (such as drop-down sections, expand-in-place images, note boxes, includes, and more). Widgets are stored as XML, but edited in a WYSIWYG environment.
  • Feedback support for gathering and analyzing reports, which works in combination with a .NET web application (a license is included in HelpStudio).
  • Source control support with Team Foundation Server, SourceGear Vault, Subversion, and Perforce.
  • Integrated style editor.
  • Style Picker window with WYSIWYG preview.
  • Page Map that indicates how elements are used in a page. Elements can be manipulated with drag-and-drop or cut/copy/paste.
  • Element Bar that displays the current element's position in the page hierarchy.
  • HTML Source Intellisense for tags and attributes.
  • Preserved undo/redo history when switching between visual, HTML edit, and preview modes.
  • Convert table row to header.
  • Auto See Also links and categories.
  • Custom topic properties.
  • Custom topic status codes.
  • Property filters.
  • Help 2.x XML Island.
  • Hyperlink title synchronization, which synchronizes hotspots with topic titles.
  • Help 2.x link designer.
  • Document! X filtering.
  • Add indices and glossaries to PDF booklets.
  • Breadcrumbs.
  • Browser Help toolbar for access to quick search, print, refresh, back, forward, TOC, index, full-text search, and favorites.
  • Browser Help index search.
  • XHTML output.
  • Glossary preview (without building the output).
  • Project index editor.
  • Clone topics, build profiles, and booklets.
  • Customizable topic caption.
  • Runtime merge for HTML Help 1.x and Help 2.
  • Print topics while in Preview mode.
  • Thumbnail options.
  • Use regular expressions in Find and Replace.
  • Build flags for files other than topics (for example, images and stylesheets).
  • Build flags for keywords and See Also links.

For more information, see HelpStudio 3 Product Overview.

 
April 30 2007 Posted by Char James-Tanny under Latest Updates