Simple Help Editor was created to give Help authors lots of options in designing the structure and look of their Help books. Version 5.0 offers more flexibility than ever before, making it even easier to enjoy the benefits of great Help in your products.
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| Support for localization |
Simple Help Editor 5.0 offers a number of features for localizing your Help content in different languages |
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| Reusable libraries |
Simple Help Editor lets you save various snippets in libraries in order to reuse them in other parts of your Help book, and in Help books for other products or versions of your products — saving significant time when creating multiple versions |
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| Multiple levels of chapters and pages |
Simple Help Editor lets you nest chapters and pages within chapters as deeply as you want in order to accommodate virtually any arrangement to your Help book content |
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| Apply CSS styling to text and images |
Simple Help Editor makes it easy to build CSS style definitions and apply them to text and images in order to customize the look of your Help book content |
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| Options for Contents listings — Improved in version 5.0 |
When producing Help content for viewing in a Web browser or in Apple Help Viewer, Simple Help Editor offers many different options for whether and where to include a table of contents, and adding links to it — giving you even more choices for designing the structure of your Help book |
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| Create and link to anchors |
Simple Help Editor lets you create anchors within Help content and link to them from other locations within your Help book for better control of navigation |
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| Link to external Help books |
Simple Help Editor lets you link to content within other Help books, allowing even more navigational possibilities |
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| Support for special Apple Help Viewer features |
When producing Help content for Apple Help Viewer, Simple Help Editor lets you utilize a number of special features including Apple Help Viewer anchors, embedding QuickTime movies, adding Search links, and support for Apple's Help bundle format. |
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| Options to automatically add navigation links — Improved in version 5.0 |
Help books displayed in a Web browser or Apple Help Viewer can display "Next", "Previous", and "Up" navigation links at the bottom of every page with a couple of mouse clicks — or Simple Help Editor lets you manually place them anywhere you like on selected pages — to help you help your users get around more easily |
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| Versatile text editing windows |
Let you add styled text, image references, hyperlinks, anchors |
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| Instant "live" preview — Improved in version 5.0 |
Instantly see how any change you make to the text, styling, links or custom HTML in a page's content will look and work in the final product with Simple Help Editor's instant, real-time preview |
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| Exports content in multiple formats — Improved in version 5.0 |
Produces content ready for viewing in Apple Help Viewer or a Web browser, or ready for compilint into a Windows HTML Help file |
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| Tools for reusing content |
Simple Help Editor makes it easy to reuse content in Help books for different versions, different platforms, etc, reducing redundant efforts |
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| Insert custom HTML |
Add any HTML entities and styles that Simple Help Editor doesn't offer out of the box to customize your content with virtually no limitations |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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See for yourself how Simple Help Editor's features can help you create help systems for your software more productively and with more consistency. Download a free 30-day trial of the Macintosh or Windows version today.
