Helpinator Professional

Almost every computer program, application, game, website etc. require a detailed Help file along with the specific application in order to guide a beginner user through the correct usage. If you are a developer, you can not afford to overlook the importance of help files along with your applications as they are the main support for users if they somehow get stuck in some part of the functionalities in your application. But the compilation of Help text for concerned program or application is not a simple task and you may end up spending away a lot of time on this if you go by conventional means. In such cases, you require an intelligent utility like Helpinator Professional v.3.2.3.

Helpinator Professional v.3.2.3 by Major Mind Software is a shareware Help Authoring Tool for automated compilation of help texts. The program allows you to compile and format help text from a single source which can be a help text written in its WYSIWYG editor. Once you have written all the text, you can easily compile a detailed and properly indexed help file in CHM, PDF document, Rich text format or Web help form. The built in editor of this program has all the word processing tools like font, format, tables, images, anchors, spacing, paragraph styles along with a spell checker which checks any spelling errors while you are typing or in one go when you have completed the document. All the projects can be saved in ZIP format, so you can access your project anywhere even if you don’t have this program installed on the computer where you are accessing.

Helpinator Professional v.3.2.3 is a professional tool which provides the user with complete flexibility and time saving in creating Help files. Hence, it receives a score of four and a half rating points on the scale of five.

Helpinator is a Help Authoring Tool that allows you to create help and manuals in different formats from single source. It means that you have to write help topics only once with WYSISYG editor, Helpinator will handle formatting and compilation of specific help formats.
1. Create CHM help files, manuals and documents in PDF format, Web Help and Rich Text Format (MS Word compatible) from single source.
2. WYSIWYG editor has all the necessary text processor tools - fonts, paragraph formatting, images, tables and anchors. It also allows you to define and use project-wide named text and paragraph styles.
3. Built-in spell checker checks spelling as you type. Additionally you can check spelling of all topics at once with Global Spell Check Tool.
4. You can easily create localized copies of your documentation. Helpinator is able to store all languages in one project file. XML import/export feature is for interaction with translation tools and services.
5. Built-in screen shot tool allows you to capture screenshots of active windows and store them to project's Image Library, then insert images into topics.
6. Image Library contains image editor that allows you to add callouts and comments to screenshots.
7. Helpinator project storage format is basically a ZIP file, so you can extract your texts at any time even without Helpinator.
8. Helpinator also has "VCS-compatible" storage mode where all objects are stored in separate files inside project folder.
9. Conditional text allows you to alter content of help topics at compile time. Conditions use variable values to control the flow.
10. Helpinator has several built-in templates for CHM/Web help and PDF/RTF. However you can easily create your own templates using visual Template Builder.
11. Command-line utility for batch processing.
12. You can import existing documentation in CHM, DOC, RTF and HTML formats using "Convert to H3" utility in programs start menu.