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HelpSmith 4.0

HelpSmith is a visual help authoring tool for easy creation of CHM HTML Help files, Web Help , and Print Manuals from a single source. The intuitive environment with a straight-forward user interface includes a powerful MS Word-like Unicode word-processor for editing help topics with dynamic styles and live spell checker, advanced approach to working with multimedia files, automatic correction system, and many other unique features.

Based on the original technologies HelpSmith, enables creating help files and documentation from start to finish and also allows you to import help topics from Microsoft Word (.RTF), .HTML, and plain text files that can be written in different Unicode character sets.

With HelpSmith you can provide help files for your application in popular help formats one of which is HTML Help files, a standard help format for program's Help in Windows. HelpSmith supports all the features of CHM Help, so you can create the tree-type TOC, alphabetical Index, also you can customize html help's help windows, etc.

The WYSIWYG principle makes working with HelpSmith as easy as working with regular office application. And, actually, you do not have to learn any technical details to start writing first-class help files with the HelpSmith authoring tool.

This software is a shareware. You will be able to download and test HelpSmith during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version. For additional information and support request, please contact directly HelpSmith publisher.

HelpSmith 4.0 was released by Divcom Software on Thursday 14 February 2013. Its known requirements are : Pentium II or higher processor, 128 MB RAM, 50 MB free disk space.

HelpSmith will run on Windows Vista Enterprise x64, Windows Vista Business x64, Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Vista Home Basic x64, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Ultimate x64, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows2003, Windows2000, Win2000, Win7 x64, Win7 x32, WinVista x64, WinVista and WinXP.

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4.0Thursday 14 February 2013
Now it is possible to fully customize the appearance of the navigation pane. Now you can define custom icons for the Table of Contents. The Search feature now allows you to find separate words or whole phrases. Added a "Print Topic" macro for hyperlinks. And more...