Simple Help Editor offers a range of features to make you more productive creating help systems that help your users.

You can use Simple Help Editor to create help systems for any of your Macintosh or Windows applications. Whatever you're using to develop them with. Whether you work in Mac OS X or Windows.

Simple Help Editor can output your help system in HTML for display with Apple Help Viewer, or with a Web browser. Simple Help Editor can also create help windows specifically for applications built with Real Software's REALbasic.

Simple. Most importantly, it's easy to use. You enter your help content, style the text as desired, add images (if you're outputting it as HTML) and hyperlinks to other pages or to external resources. Then if you're going to have your users display it with Apple Help Viewer or in a Web broswer, all it takes is a few clicks of the mouse to finish.

There are lots of nice tools built in to make entering content easier as well. A glossary function expands abbreviations you define. Quick Styles let you apply complex text styling in one step.

Flexible. Use Simple Help Editor on your Macintosh or Windows PC to create a help system for either platform -- or both.

Display your help content in a built-in application window (if you're using REALbasic to create your application), save it to HTML and display it in a Web browser, or in Apple Help Viewer. If you're using an HTML version, there are several options for customizing the display.

Here are some key features of "Simple Help Editor":

· Help book structure saved in Settings files
Makes it easy to use the same content (source material) with different output formatting for different uses

· Hierarchical "chapters and pages" organization
Helps you organize information into categories and supporting information

· Versatile text editing windows
Let you add styled text, image references, hyperlinks.

· Exports content as HTML
Can be displayed in Web browsers or Mac OS X's Apple Help Viewer (includes Help Viewer-compatible tags)

· Exports content for compiling as HTML Help
Lets you compile content into a CHM file for display in Windows

· Glossary entry for quick text entry
Save commonly used terms with or without styling, for consistent use throughout help system -- save different glossaries for different projects

· Placeholders for dynamic text
On-the-fly text replacement makes it easier to customize common content for different audiences -- save different Placeholder sets for different purposes

· QuickStyles for instant text styling
More consistency -- use the same styling for common elements throughout your help system -- with the click of a mouse -- save different style sets for different purposes

· Image scaling
Resize images within Simple Help Editor for quick page reformatting

· Work with multiple projects
Simple Help Editor remembers and lets you quickly change to working with Help books for different applications

· HTML options
Offers a number of options for HTML output to give you the style that works for your purposes


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixes a problem that could leave extraneous "&" characters in custom HTML inserted into page content.
· Now properly uses QuickStyles that include spaces in their names.
· Fixed a problem with using QuickStyles with default text characteristics as "class" identifiers for custom HTML inserted into page content.
· Fixed a problem with faulty HTML encoding of some non-ASCII characters in page text.
· Fixed a problem with incorrect styling for a framed contents page the first time you export a Help book after launching Simple Help Editor.
· Added "Reset" button to color palette to reset colors to defaults.
· Fixed a problem with using the Undo command in text pages in Windows.