HelpMaker is a software program that allows you to create help files without an expensive word-processor and without having to manage multiple files.

Writing help files is called help authoring. You can make whole help files using HelpMaker. HelpMaker makes WinHelp, RTF and HTML-Help files.

HelpMaker is designed to store information in a free-form way that does not limit your imagination. HelpMaker is designed to make help authoring as simple and easy as possible.

ButtonMaker and ImageMaker are applications distributed with HelpMaker that can be used to make buttons and enhance images used in Helpmaker.

Here are some key features of "HelpMaker":

· Graphical User Interface
· Print Preview Feature
· Zoom
View Ruler:
· Word Processing Features
· Font Formatting
· Paragraph Formatting
· Bullets and Numbering
· Tab Spacing
· Change Case
· Various Styles (Bold, Italic, Underline)
· Alignment Styles (Left, Center, Right)
· Insert Page Break
· Insert Date, Time and Date/Time
· Insert Picture
· Insert Hyperlink
· Insert OLE Object
· Insert Drawing Object
Spelling (with Auto-spell):
· Printing Features
· Print to Printer, Print to PDF
· Print Preview Feature
Print individual document:
· Search and Replace Features
· Unicode Search
· Unicode Replace
· Topic Search
Keyword Search:
· Import and Export Features
· Import from Word, RTF and Text files
Export to PDF, Web-page, RTF and Word Document files:
· Table Features
· Table (and nested tables)

Requirements:

· Pentium II, 400Mhz or better
· 32 MB Ram or better
· 50 MB of hard disk space
· Internet Explorer

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed strange font issue when using Arial.
· Fixed invalid CSHelp.text loading when more than >1024 characters.
· Importing from *.sh5 where the Hyperlink was truncated was fixed.