Dr.Explain

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Dr.Explain is a help authoring program with a focus on visually describing the Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) of programs

It is an excellent tool for easily creating those "Quick Start" guides that have lots of screenshots of the program and help you learn where everything resides in a program. It is also great for detailed user manuals that document all of the features and options reachable through a program's GUI through highly annotated screenshots.

By analyzing the structure of a program's graphical user interface (GUI), Dr.Explain will automatically generate the necessary help topics

The Dr.Explain will analyze the structure of your software interface and will generate help topic drafts for it automatically. If you are a Web developer, then the HTML parsing capabilities will help you quickly document all significant parts of your Web site as well. It doesn't matter what technology or tools you used to design your software GUI. The Dr.Explain can make help documentation for any solution.

Automatically create annotations for your screenshots based on window or Web form structure

The Dr.Explain tool is exceptionally useful for authoring help files with many screenshots and technical illustrations. The built-in capturing tool analyzes internal structure of captured windows or web forms and automatically creates numbered annotations for all significant GUI elements: buttons, fields, options, menus, toolbars, and so on. You must just add some descriptive text to complete the topic. With other help authoring tools those operations would take hours while with the Dr.Explain you can accomplish it in minutes.

Generate help documentation in different formats from a single source

With the Dr.Explain you can easily generate a complete array of user documentation in various formats from a single source file. The Dr.Explain can make CHM help files, HTML on-line manuals and printable manuals in RTF and PDF. Electronically distribute your help file with application; put it on your product website; or deliver it as a printed manual within the box.

A professional help authoring tool at very affordable price

Dr.Explain runs under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. It processes the applications made with all major Windows and web development environments, including Visual Studio C/C++/C#/.NET/MFC/WTL/WinForms, Java (SWING), Visual BASIC, Delphi, and Clarion. Dr.Explain costs $125(US) for a single-user Regular License. The single-user Advanced License costs $165(US), and includes validation and compacting tools, command line support, menu auto-capturing, print versions of HTML pages, and pop-up tooltips on screenshots.

Who Needs Dr.Explain?

You do if you've ever:

  • Had to manually mark up a screen shot and write individual help topics for each graphical interface element.
  • Performed the same work multiple times because you needed to deliver your help documentation in different formats.
  • Had to create help documentation that was forward-compatible with a number of different programming languages.

 

 

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