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  Help Development Studio
  Version: 1.81

  www.helpdevelopmentstudio.com
  support@divcomsoft.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 DESCRIPTION
 FEATURES
 REQUIREMENTS
 INSTALLATION
 UNINSTALLATION
 DISTRIBUTION

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DESCRIPTION
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We proudly present a new version  of  the full-featured,  stand-alone and
really  easy-to-use  help  authoring  tool, which  has  already  obtained
acknowledgment of a big number of software developers, technical writers,
help  authoring  professionals  and  even  average  PC  users.  Why?  The
answer is simple.  Creation of help files in WinHelp (.hlp) and HTML Help
(.chm) formats  is   no   longer   complex   and   difficult  task.  With
Help Development Studio, the process of writing help documentation can be
compared  with  writing a document in a text processor  and  you are able
to provide  your  application with a professionally developed help files,
on-line manual  even  if  you  have  no  skills  in  help  authoring. But
this  does  not  mean  that  use  of  Help Development Studio  limits you
possibilities  in  help  authoring.   You can do everything what the help
system allows to do. Create your table of contents, keyword index, browse
groups and,  of course,  write  and  edit  text for your help topics with
using  a  variety  of  different objects such as links, macros, graphics,
etc.   The intuitive, professionally designed user interface will not let
you get lost among many editor windows, objects and files, the most known
problems met in other help authoring tools. The integrated system of auto
correction  will  save  your  time and let you be sure that change of key
settings  (e.g. change of topic IDs, window names, etc)  will not lead to
broken   links,  macros   and  other   objects  of   your  help   system.
The  multi-file  mode   will  let  you  work  on  several  help  projects
simultaneously.  Finally, additional plug-ins which can be downloaded and
installed  or  even   developed   by  yourself  will  let  you  customize
Help Development Studio  in  accordance with your  own  needs. Write help
documentation with Help Development Studio and you will do your work much
sooner and more qualitatively.

FEATURES
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* Support of WinHelp and HTML Help formats.
* Ability to create web help (using the On-line Manual plug-in).
* Creating documentation in different formats from the same source.
* Integrated editors (text processor,  help contents  and  index editors,
  macro editor, etc).
* Powerful  Auto Correct system that will let you be sure that change  of
  key  settings  (e.g. change of topic IDs,  window names,  etc) will not
  lead to broken links, macros and other objects of your help system.
* Multi-file   mode   (ability   to  work  with  several  help   projects
  simultaneously).
* A variety  of  different  objects  which can be inserted at the text of
  help  topics  (different  types  of  links,  targets, macros, clickable
  buttons, pictures, etc).
* Ability to insert pictures from the Clipboard  (effective for inserting
  screenshots).
* Custom  text  layouts  for  quick  applying font attributes in the text
  editor.
* Support of Segmented Hyper Graphics in WinHelp and HTML Help.
* Creating and editing styles for HTML links.
* Automatic convert of specified HTML Help topics to text pop-up format.
* Powerful text search and replace engine.
* Dynamically updating report for viewing results.
* Support of relative paths  (no  need to edit anything after moving your
  help project to other folder, disk, or even computer).
* Installing additional plug-ins.
* Really easy-to-use multilingual interface.
* Rich  set  of  options to customize the program in accordance with your
  own needs.

REQUIREMENTS
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Pentium 100 MHz or better
Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP
About 2Mb free hard drive space
Installed Microsoft (R) Help compilers

INSTALLATION
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Run SETUP.EXE and follow the instructions.

UNINSTALLATION
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Use the Windows control panel's 'Add/Remove program' feature.

DISTRIBUTION
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The program archive can be freely distributed provided that:
1) It is not modified in any way whatsoever.
2) It is clearly stated in accompanying text(s) that it is shareware.

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