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- HelpViewer.app - an application for viewing, scanning, printing,
- compressing, expanding, verifying, compacting, and comparing the
- NEXTSTEP on-line help of other applications
-
- (see below for a general application description)
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- Version 1.3 is a maintenance release, with some improvements
- and bug fixes for HelpViewer's integrated Help Compander tool.
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- Version 1.3 might be the last release under NEXTSTEP 3.3 - the
- next major release is planned to be HelpViewer II for OPENSTEP.
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- New features in version 1.3 (choose Info -> Release Notes for details)
-
- * transparency removal
- This new help folder verification option removes the transparency
- information (i.e. the alpha channel) from all TIFF files, and thus
- further decreases the required disk space for your help folder
- (and that for the resulting Help.store file as well).
-
- * help folder verification speedup
- The image packing and LZW-compressiong options now work much faster,
- especially on 'empty runs' i.e. when all images have already been
- packed/compressed by a previous run.
-
- * STOP signs with progress pies
- Some of the 'Verify Contents' and 'Compare Help Folders' options
- can take quite a while when run on huge help folders, eventually
- generating no visual output for minutes. To keep you informed about
- what's going on, the STOP signs now sport progress pies whereever
- possible. (That is, for all stages where the amount of work to do
- can be pre-calculated.)
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- * auxiliary comparison help folder
- When reviewing the differences between two help folders, you can
- now select an auxiliary third help folder. Help files from this
- third folder will be opened in Edit as well, along with the two
- help files originally compared. Handy when you want to reflect
- changes in another language.
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- * extraction of modified help files
- When reviewing the differences between two help folders, you can
- now copy the help files listed for either of the two folders to
- another location, preserving the given subfolder hierarchy.
- Handy when you want to send just the modified/new help files
- to someone else, perhaps for translation to another language.
-
- * a few bug fixes
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- General application description
-
- With HelpViewer, you can view any application's on-line help,
- and print all help pages, or just selected chapters or pages,
- with help links replaced by page numbers.
- Auto-scanning of all hidden help files. Auto-chaptering.
- Customizable Table of Contents, headers, and footers.
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- Developers can scan their own application's on-line help to
- locate and correct help links to nonexistent help files,
- help links to nonexistent markers within existing help files,
- and duplicate marker definitions in help files.
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- With HelpViewer's integrated Help Compander tool (introduced in
- version 1.2) you can compress and expand NEXTSTEP on-line help.
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- Users can expand an application's compressed on-line help into
- a help folder in original "source code" form, perform certain
- automatic repair actions or manual modifications, and compress
- the help folder back into the application's on-line help.
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- Developers can bypass the ProjectBuilder application completely,
- and let the Help Compander perform all required steps to generate
- the Help.store file, including a final verification run to detect
- infamous "compresshelp" bug.
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- -- expand help stores to help folders
- -- compress help folders to help stores
- -- verify help store contents
- -- detect damaged files
- -- check and repair "find by keyword" functionality
- -- verify help folder contents
- -- remove useless files
- -- detect missing help files
- -- detect RTFD file inconsistencies
- -- automatically create/update .index.store files
- -- reduce the disk space required by help folders to about 50%
- -- compare different versions of a help folder
- (in a far more suitable way than FileMerge can)
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- HelpViewer is localized to English, French, and German.
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- Fully licensable demo - for informations on how to purchase
- a license key for $39 US, send electronic mail to <stefan@ping.at>,
- or visit the HelpViewer World Wide Web home page at
- <http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/HelpViewer/>.
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- The Help Compander tool is licensed until August 1, 1996.
- After August 1, you can request a FREE time-limited
- license key to be able to test-drive the Help Compander.
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- Contact:
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- Stefan Schneider Software
- DI Stefan Schneider
- Lerchenfelder St. 85/6
- A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe
- +43-1-523-5834
- stefan@ping.at
- http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/HelpViewer/
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