atw: Re: An old topic: Current state of HATs
- From: janet.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:55:57 +1100
Component One's Doc-to-Help creates both a paper-based manual (Word doc)
and online Help
The latest version is available for trial at
http://www.componentone.com/Downloadcenter.aspx
maybe you could ask someone with a faster connection to download for you
and burn to CD?
I found it easy to use, only issue being that you need to use standard
Doc-to-Help/Word styles.
When I tried to use styles I had created, D2H was unable to convert them
to the HTML format that I required. This wasn't a big issue for me
because I only needed to create the online Help. Apparently there will be
more flexibility in future versions.
Hope this helps.
Would be interested in hearing opinions on XDK, as I haven't used before,
but have access to in my current workplace.
"Garry Stevens (ASI)" <StevensGa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: atw: An old topic: Current state of HATs
How do:
And now for a return to that grand old topic of choosing an online
authoring tool. I've perused articles here from mid last year and checked
out the recommended review sites. I thought I'd check up with y'all.
In short: environment is Windows 2000, Office 2000. We intend to single
source in so far as that is practicable, using the one doc to make a
user/reference manual and online help. One author. Help may be chm file or
mounted on the intranet-- haven't decided yet. That partly depends on
whether we can integrate the help with the (third-party) product, and
whether we can tie topics into dialogs. It would be nice if we could
decompile the existing help and meld it into the new stuff (we aren't sure
what access the Aussie reseller has to the original help files).
I've used HDK (vsn 2000, recently) and Robohelp (some time ago). I always
felt HDK was a bit too smart for its own good, had a particularly nasty
interface, and a supercilious help system. I presume XDK is HDK's
successor. ReWorx sounds suspiciously simple. I've no idea what the
difference is between Robohelp Office and Robohelp for Word. One review
site praised AuthorIT.
One issue concerns downloads. I notice that XDK requires a download, with
an optional and additional CD. We have the NSW government's slowest
internet connection (rather slower than a phone line), and I don't trust a
download to complete successfully.
Yours suggestions welcomed,
Garry
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