Editor: RoboAuthor is one of the most advanced, yet easy-to-use, visual tool for creating the help system / documentation for your web based or desktop software application.
RoboAuthor’s intuitive easy-start environment requires no more technical skills than a common word processor, yet offers so much more! The features provided to the helpfile end user are very powerful. But there's more: RoboAuthor is handy for you, the author, too. You work with a single document, for editing, archive, publishing and even for searches and revisions.
Main benefits:
- HTML Help with one click (requires Microsoft HTML Help workshop installed);
- both .CHM, .HLP (old WinHelp format), JavaHelp and Website with a single tool;
- Delphi, C++ MFC, Borland C++ Builder, Visual Basic, Visual C, Java, even Microsoft Access, Visual Objects, Clarion, APL, Visual FoxPro... - you can show a single help topic from within any programming language;
- one manual, one source file;
- easy Table of Contents; easy keyword list; topics (pages) easy to add and to link
- frames, text styles, hot spots, popup windows, mouse over sensitive images, sounds, video, visual linking (no Broken links, ever!): all without coding!
- optimized also for large works (with the quick link feature you can manage 1000 pages with ease: no file names to remember, everything visual and damn fast);
- want to make the same change to every page of your manual? No problem, there is the Global Search and Replace, or you can use headers and footers;
- CHM or HLP file is free for distribution, i.e. no royalties;
- easy to learn and easy to start; (and we are always here for fast support, please ask us any questions!);
- HTML export compatible with any browser
- small and smart, does run on MSWindows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7; (fast: even an old Pentium I 100Mhz with 16MB RAM and Win95 is fine);
- new! supports external plugins (such as 3D Buttons)
