Help authoring requires a lot of work especially if you need documentation in several different formats. Helpinator does this work for you. You can concentrate on your content and leave all format handling to Helpinator. Above that you can significantly reduce time spent on help authoring by using exclusive productivity enhancements built in Helpinator.

Basic features:

1. Produce CHM, PDF, RTF and Website from single source.


2. Easy-to-use topic editor with full set of features and integrated spell checker. Insert tables, images, flash movies and etc


3. Built-in template engine allows different templates for different types of documentation.


4. Everything you need (text, images, templates, variables) to compile help files is inside one project file.

5. Shared images. Use the same image in multiple topics without duplicating it.


6. Use text snippets to store blocks of text that appear is the same form in several topics.


7. Command-line utility to use from batch files.

Shared Images
Store images that you need to share across multiple topics under the "Images" node. You can insert them into topics by using pseudo-tag

{%IMG yourimage.ext%}

where yourimage.ext is the full name of the image. This tag will be replaced by corresponding image during compilation.

Text Includes.
Store blocks of text that appear in the same form in multiple topics under "Includes" node.
Use pseudo-tag

{%yourmacro%}

to insert includes into topics.