Help Authoring Tools

AuthorIT: Optical Systems Corporation Ltd. www.author-it.com AuthorIT generates hard copy, Windows online Help, HTML Help, and HTML pages from a single source while still retaining the specific features and characteristics of each media.	CreateHelp: CHC Software 27 West Park, London SE94RZ, England 100111.3452@compuserve.com Authoring tool for creating MS Windows Help files.
Doc-To-Help: ComponentOne 4516 Henry Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-681-4343, Fax: 412-681-4384 sales@componentone.com www.componentone.com Tool for creating WinHelp, HTML Help, HTML, JavaHelp and commercial-quality printed documentation from a single, easily maintained source.	Document! VB: Innovasys Phone: +44 1252 875639, Fax: +44 1252 860273 sales@innovasys.co.uk www.innovasys.co.uk Creates HTML Help documentation for Visual Basic applications.
EasyHelp software: Eon Solutions Ltd. Eon House 4 Hamble Way Macclesfield SK10 3RN England www.eon-solutions.com or eonsol@cix.co.uk EasyHelp/Web: www.easyhelp.com EasyHTML for Word: www.easyhtml.com EasyHTML/Help: www.easyhtmlhelp.com Three WinHelp and HTML editor products created by Eon Solutions.	HDK (Hypertext Development Kit): Virtual Media Technology www.vmtech.com A powerful authoring tool for creating and updating online documentation and Help systems, from simple document conversion to advanced online authoring. Winner of the Windows Magazine "Best authoring tool" award (US 1996).
HelpBreeze: Solutionsoft 370 Altair Way, Suite 200 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Phone: 408-736-1431 75210.2214@compuserve.com www.solutionsoft.com Windows Help authoring tools, utilities, and add-ins for developing and enhancing WinHelp files.	Help & Manual: EC Software Suedtirolerstr. 1b Seekirchen, 5201 Austria Phone: +43-6212-7838, Fax: +43-6212-4724 info@ec-software.com www.ec-software.com Stand-alone Help authoring tool for creating WinHelp, HTML Help, printed documentation, and electronic documentation from a single source.
HyperText Studio: Olson Software 4 Anaru Place Palmerston North, New Zealand Phone: +64 6 359 1408, Fax: +64 6 359 3962 stefan@olsonsoft.co.nz www.olsonsoft.com Create WinHelp, HTML Help and Web Sites in one WYSIWYG development environment! Edit HTML Source code in the new Source editor, with helpful features such as code completion. Use the Enterprise Edition to have multiple users working on one project at the same time!	HelpWriter for Delphi or VB: Teletech Systems, Inc. 750 Birch Ridge Dr. Roswell, GA 30076 Phone/Fax: 770-475-6985 support@helpwriter.com www.helpwriter.com Creates a full Help system for any Delphi or Visual Basic project.
PerformX(TM): Systemik Solutions Pty Ltd Bensons House Suite 2, Level 4 52 Phillip Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Phone: +61 2 9233 7588, Fax: +61 2 9233 7988 performx@systemiksolutions.com www.systemiksolutions.com PerformX Wizards are used to design, author, and publish documentation in an easy three-step process. Designed and developed by Systemik Solutions, an innovative software development and documentation consulting group, PerformX is a revolutionary Rapid Documentation Publishing tool.	Plan B HelpMaker: Delphi Shop Seven 602 Woodland Dr. 42 #04-59 Singapore 730602 Phone: +065-3638079 peck@helpmaker.net www.helpmaker.net HelpMaker is a stand-alone Help authoring tool for Windows 95/98/NT for HTML Help, WinHelp, RTF, HTML/web site, and manuals. HelpMaker is a true WYSIWYG Windows Help writer that creates all types of Help files and printed manuals from the same data.
QuickHelp: Excel Software 19 Misty Mesa Ct. Placitas, NM 87043 Phone: 505-771-3719, Fax: 505-771-3718 info@excelsoftware.com www.excelsoftware.com QuickHelp is a development tool for quickly creating and distributing online Help for Linux applications. QuickHelp consists of a Builder for creating the Help topics and a Viewer for deploying them to end users. QuickHelp supports a table of contents, an index with automatic search field, word searches across topics, color highlighted topic text with hypertext links, and context sensitive help from applications.	RoboHelp: eHelp Corporation 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 112 La Jolla, CA 92037 Phone: 800-459-2356, 858-459-6365, Fax: 858-459-6366 information@ehelp.com www.ehelp.com The world's best-selling Help authoring suite for creating online Help and user assistance in any major format including WinHelp 3 and 4, Microsoft HTML Help, WebHelp, JavaHelp, printed documentation, and more. Winner of over 40 industry awards for excellence.
Sevensteps BV: Sevensteps 2.0 P.O. Box 789 3740 AT Baarn The Netherlands Phone: +31 35 5433798, Fax: +31 35 5425244 info@sevensteps.nl www.sevensteps.nl Sevensteps helps you develop professional Online Help systems in WinHelp or HTML for your company's custom-made applications. Online Help created with Sevensteps is based on actual information needs of users of your business application.	SmartDoc: t3 medien gmbh Nägelsbachstrasse 26 91052 Erlangen Germany Phone: +49 9131 7448-0, Fax: +49 9131 7448-10 SmartDoc is a unique solution for the automated production of manuals and HTML online Help from a single source. It is intended for authors working with Adobe FrameMaker.
True Help: ComponentOne 4516 Henry Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-681-4343, Fax: 412-681-4384 sales@componentone.com www.componentone.com True Help is a standalone Windows application that converts Microsoft Word documents into professional-looking Help systems quickly and easily.	ViewletBuilder: Qarbon.com 84 W. Santa Clara St., Suite 790 San Jose, CA 95113 Phone: 408-792-3800 info@qarbon.com www.qarbon.com Creates fast, effective animated online demos that show end-users how software works.
Virtual Media Publishing Suite: Virtual Media Technology www.vmtech.com The first commercial grade Web and WinHelp publishing suite. Complete your intranet and documentation strategy with a tool that handles serious document publishing and management.	Visual Help Pro: WinWare, Inc. 3334 E. Coast Highway, #419 Corona del Mar, CA 92625 Phone: 949-675-7140, Fax: 949-675-7149 sales@winwareinc.com www.winwareinc.com Help Authoring Tool.
WebWorks Publisher: Quadralay Corp. 9101 Burnet Road , Suite 105 Austin, TX 78758 Phone: 512-719-3399 ext.237, Fax: 512-719-3606 osborne@quadralay.com www.webworks.com Create and maintain electronic documents for the WWW, HTML Help, and CD-ROM distribution.

Web Development Tools and Editors
1st JAVA Navigator: Auscomp PO Box 75 Patterson Lakes Victoria, 3197 Australia Fax: +61 3 9776 2060 info@auscomp.com www.auscomp.com Java-based navigation tool for Internet, intranet, or extranet sites.	Cold Fusion: Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554 www.macromedia.com A Web application server that gives your team a complete development platform. Fast and scalable, a proven technology that drives tens of thousands of Web applications in leading companies worldwide.
DevaT: Deva Associates LLC 10901 Red Circle Drive Suite 308 Minnetonka, MN 55343 Phone: 800-646-9989 or 952-933-4471, Fax: 952-933-7792 info@devahelp.com www.devahelp.com DevaT is a family of products that will help you create easy-to-use navigation systems for web sites, intranets, and HTML-based help.	Dreamweaver: Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554 www.macromedia.com Macromedia Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop a professional Web site, whether you use Dreamweaver's visual layout tools or its text-editing environment.
EditML: NETBRYX Technologies Phone: 832-978-6443 sales@editml.com www.editml.com An XML editor with a number of features: wizard for creating new documents, validity checking, and automatic generation of DTD and XML schema from XML data files.	HomeSite: Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554 www.macromedia.com An award-winning HTML editing tool that lets you build great Web sites while maintaining HTML code integrity; gives you precise layout control, total design flexibility, and full access to the latest Web technologies, such as DHTML, SMIL, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript.
Scribbler: Cream Software Os. 1000 lecia 24/53 32-400 Myslenice, Poland creams@creamsoft.com.pl www.creamsoft.com/scribbler Scribbler is a professional quality, yet easy to use DHTML, JavaScript, and VBScript editor with a library of over 50 built-in scripts.	Stylemaster: Westciv Webware www.westciv.com.au/style_master Where many style sheets tools are really repurposed text editors, Style Master 1.9 is built from the ground up as a specialized style sheets IDE (integrated development environment), featuring everything you need to develop, test and deploy sophisticated style sheets.
TopStyle Pro: Bradbury Software info@bradsoft.com www.bradsoft.com/topstyle From the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle Pro is an award winning style-sheet editor for Windows.	Weblite: Virtual Media Technology www.vmtech.com An easy-to-use RTF to HTML conversion tool that can convert large documents with a single click. Ideal entry-level HTML and HTML Help authoring tool includes Virtual Media's breakthrough Java navigator.
XML Spy: Altova, Inc. 900 Cummings Center Suite 306-T Beverly, MA 01915-6181 Phone: 978-927-9400, Fax: 978-927-7447 www.xmlspy.com XML Spy is an Integrated Development Environment for the eXtensible Markup Language that includes all major aspects of XML in one product. XML Spy is centered around a professional validating XML editor that provides five advanced views on your documents.

AuthorIT: Optical Systems Corporation Ltd.
www.author-it.com

AuthorIT generates hard copy, Windows online Help, HTML Help, and HTML pages from a single source while still retaining the specific features and characteristics of each media.

CreateHelp: CHC Software
27 West Park, London
SE94RZ, England
100111.3452@compuserve.com

Authoring tool for creating MS Windows Help files.

Doc-To-Help: ComponentOne
4516 Henry Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-681-4343, Fax: 412-681-4384
sales@componentone.com
www.componentone.com

Tool for creating WinHelp, HTML Help, HTML, JavaHelp and commercial-quality printed documentation from a single, easily maintained source.

Document! VB: Innovasys
Phone: +44 1252 875639, Fax: +44 1252 860273
sales@innovasys.co.uk
www.innovasys.co.uk

Creates HTML Help documentation for Visual Basic applications.

EasyHelp software: Eon Solutions Ltd.
Eon House
4 Hamble Way
Macclesfield SK10 3RN England
www.eon-solutions.com or eonsol@cix.co.uk
EasyHelp/Web: www.easyhelp.com
EasyHTML for Word: www.easyhtml.com
EasyHTML/Help: www.easyhtmlhelp.com

Three WinHelp and HTML editor products created by Eon Solutions.

HDK (Hypertext Development Kit): Virtual Media Technology
www.vmtech.com

A powerful authoring tool for creating and updating online documentation and Help systems, from simple document conversion to advanced online authoring. Winner of the Windows Magazine "Best authoring tool" award (US 1996).

HelpBreeze: Solutionsoft
370 Altair Way, Suite 200
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone: 408-736-1431
75210.2214@compuserve.com
www.solutionsoft.com

Windows Help authoring tools, utilities, and add-ins for developing and enhancing WinHelp files.

Help & Manual: EC Software
Suedtirolerstr. 1b
Seekirchen, 5201
Austria
Phone: +43-6212-7838, Fax: +43-6212-4724
info@ec-software.com
www.ec-software.com

Stand-alone Help authoring tool for creating WinHelp, HTML Help, printed documentation, and electronic documentation from a single source.

HyperText Studio: Olson Software
4 Anaru Place
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Phone: +64 6 359 1408, Fax: +64 6 359 3962
stefan@olsonsoft.co.nz
www.olsonsoft.com

Create WinHelp, HTML Help and Web Sites in one WYSIWYG development environment! Edit HTML Source code in the new Source editor, with helpful features such as code completion. Use the Enterprise Edition to have multiple users working on one project at the same time!

HelpWriter for Delphi or VB: Teletech Systems, Inc.
750 Birch Ridge Dr.
Roswell, GA 30076
Phone/Fax: 770-475-6985
support@helpwriter.com
www.helpwriter.com

Creates a full Help system for any Delphi or Visual Basic project.

PerformX(TM): Systemik Solutions Pty Ltd
Bensons House
Suite 2, Level 4
52 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9233 7588, Fax: +61 2 9233 7988
performx@systemiksolutions.com
www.systemiksolutions.com

PerformX Wizards are used to design, author, and publish documentation in an easy three-step process. Designed and developed by Systemik Solutions, an innovative software development and documentation consulting group, PerformX is a revolutionary Rapid Documentation Publishing tool.

Plan B HelpMaker: Delphi Shop Seven
602 Woodland Dr. 42
#04-59
Singapore 730602
Phone: +065-3638079
peck@helpmaker.net
www.helpmaker.net

HelpMaker is a stand-alone Help authoring tool for Windows 95/98/NT for HTML Help, WinHelp, RTF, HTML/web site, and manuals. HelpMaker is a true WYSIWYG Windows Help writer that creates all types of Help files and printed manuals from the same data.

QuickHelp: Excel Software
19 Misty Mesa Ct.
Placitas, NM 87043
Phone: 505-771-3719, Fax: 505-771-3718
info@excelsoftware.com
www.excelsoftware.com

QuickHelp is a development tool for quickly creating and distributing online Help for Linux applications. QuickHelp consists of a Builder for creating the Help topics and a Viewer for deploying them to end users. QuickHelp supports a table of contents, an index with automatic search field, word searches across topics, color highlighted topic text with hypertext links, and context sensitive help from applications.

RoboHelp: eHelp Corporation
7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 112
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 800-459-2356, 858-459-6365, Fax: 858-459-6366
information@ehelp.com
www.ehelp.com

The world's best-selling Help authoring suite for creating online Help and user assistance in any major format including WinHelp 3 and 4, Microsoft HTML Help, WebHelp, JavaHelp, printed documentation, and more. Winner of over 40 industry awards for excellence.

Sevensteps BV: Sevensteps 2.0
P.O. Box 789
3740 AT Baarn
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 35 5433798, Fax: +31 35 5425244 info@sevensteps.nl
www.sevensteps.nl

Sevensteps helps you develop professional Online Help systems in WinHelp or HTML for your company's custom-made applications. Online Help created with Sevensteps is based on actual information needs of users of your business application.

SmartDoc: t3 medien gmbh
Nägelsbachstrasse 26
91052 Erlangen
Germany
Phone: +49 9131 7448-0, Fax: +49 9131 7448-10

SmartDoc is a unique solution for the automated production of manuals and HTML online Help from a single source. It is intended for authors working with Adobe FrameMaker.

True Help: ComponentOne
4516 Henry Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-681-4343, Fax: 412-681-4384
sales@componentone.com
www.componentone.com

True Help is a standalone Windows application that converts Microsoft Word documents into professional-looking Help systems quickly and easily.

ViewletBuilder: Qarbon.com
84 W. Santa Clara St., Suite 790
San Jose, CA 95113
Phone: 408-792-3800
info@qarbon.com
www.qarbon.com

Creates fast, effective animated online demos that show end-users how software works.

Virtual Media Publishing Suite: Virtual Media Technology
www.vmtech.com

The first commercial grade Web and WinHelp publishing suite. Complete your intranet and documentation strategy with a tool that handles serious document publishing and management.

Visual Help Pro: WinWare, Inc.
3334 E. Coast Highway, #419
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
Phone: 949-675-7140, Fax: 949-675-7149
sales@winwareinc.com
www.winwareinc.com

Help Authoring Tool.

WebWorks Publisher: Quadralay Corp.
9101 Burnet Road , Suite 105
Austin, TX 78758
Phone: 512-719-3399 ext.237, Fax: 512-719-3606
osborne@quadralay.com
www.webworks.com

Create and maintain electronic documents for the WWW, HTML Help, and CD-ROM distribution.

Web Development Tools and Editors

1st JAVA Navigator: Auscomp
PO Box 75
Patterson Lakes
Victoria, 3197
Australia
Fax: +61 3 9776 2060
info@auscomp.com
www.auscomp.com

Java-based navigation tool for Internet, intranet, or extranet sites.

Cold Fusion: Macromedia, Inc.
600 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554
www.macromedia.com

A Web application server that gives your team a complete development platform. Fast and scalable, a proven technology that drives tens of thousands of Web applications in leading companies worldwide.

DevaT: Deva Associates LLC
10901 Red Circle Drive
Suite 308
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Phone: 800-646-9989 or 952-933-4471, Fax: 952-933-7792
info@devahelp.com
www.devahelp.com

DevaT is a family of products that will help you create easy-to-use navigation systems for web sites, intranets, and HTML-based help.

Dreamweaver: Macromedia, Inc.
600 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554
www.macromedia.com

Macromedia Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop a professional Web site, whether you use Dreamweaver's visual layout tools or its text-editing environment.

EditML: NETBRYX Technologies
Phone: 832-978-6443
sales@editml.com
www.editml.com

An XML editor with a number of features: wizard for creating new documents, validity checking, and automatic generation of DTD and XML schema from XML data files.

HomeSite: Macromedia, Inc.
600 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-252-2000, Fax: 415-626-0554
www.macromedia.com

An award-winning HTML editing tool that lets you build great Web sites while maintaining HTML code integrity; gives you precise layout control, total design flexibility, and full access to the latest Web technologies, such as DHTML, SMIL, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript.

Scribbler: Cream Software
Os. 1000 lecia 24/53
32-400 Myslenice, Poland
creams@creamsoft.com.pl
www.creamsoft.com/scribbler

Scribbler is a professional quality, yet easy to use DHTML, JavaScript, and VBScript editor with a library of over 50 built-in scripts.

Stylemaster: Westciv Webware
www.westciv.com.au/style_master

Where many style sheets tools are really repurposed text editors, Style Master 1.9 is built from the ground up as a specialized style sheets IDE (integrated development environment), featuring everything you need to develop, test and deploy sophisticated style sheets.

TopStyle Pro: Bradbury Software
info@bradsoft.com
www.bradsoft.com/topstyle

From the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle Pro is an award winning style-sheet editor for Windows.

Weblite: Virtual Media Technology
www.vmtech.com

An easy-to-use RTF to HTML conversion tool that can convert large documents with a single click. Ideal entry-level HTML and HTML Help authoring tool includes Virtual Media's breakthrough Java navigator.

XML Spy: Altova, Inc.
900 Cummings Center
Suite 306-T
Beverly, MA 01915-6181
Phone: 978-927-9400, Fax: 978-927-7447
www.xmlspy.com

XML Spy is an Integrated Development Environment for the eXtensible Markup Language that includes all major aspects of XML in one product. XML Spy is centered around a professional validating XML editor that provides five advanced views on your documents.