MadCap Flare
MadCap Flare™ V6 is a powerful, XML-based professional content authoring and publishing software application that allows technical writers and documentation specialists to make and manage content for multiple channel publishing. Whether you are making projects for complex digital print publishing, desktop publishing, Help systems, or web-based online publishing, MadCap Flare provides a complete set of professional help authoring and content development tools.
Publish to PDF, XPS, Word™, FrameMaker®, DITA, XHTML with Integrated Navigation (cross-browser, cross-platform), Microsoft® HTML Help, Mobile platforms (iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry), or DotNet Help using MadCap Flare.
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/overview.aspx
Help & Manual
Help & Manual 5 is a single-source help authoring and content management system for both single and multi-author editing.
Working with Help & Manual is as simple as writing text with a word processor, while all content is saved as pure XML in the background.
Help & Manual scales from small to really large projects with thousands of pages and makes Windows help files, Webhelp and manuals in print and PDF format.
http://www.helpandmanual.com/
Adobe® RoboHelp®
Adobe® RoboHelp® 8 software is a professional authoring tool for developing help systems, eLearning content, knowledgebases, and policies and procedures. Its enhanced editing and layout capabilities enable you to make engaging interactive content and to publish to multiple channels — even as an Adobe AIR® application — for an integrated online and offline user experience.
http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/
HelpStudio
HelpStudio is the fastest, simplest way to make and publish help systems and integrate them with your desktop or web based applications or components, including .NET. Generate help output in cross-platform browser help, HTML Help 1.x, Help 2.x or printable PDF. HelpStudio seamlessly combines a feature packed WYSIWYG authoring environment with HTML based layout templates to make it simple to make consistent, professional looking help systems with the minimum of effort. HelpStudio is the full version of HelpStudio Lite - the help authoring tool included in the Microsoft Visual Studio SDK.
http://www.innovasys.com/products/hs3/overview.aspx
Quick-Help
Quick-Help is a Windows Help File Generator that produces online and offline documentation. Compile to any of the following formats, all from a single source editor. That means you type once and compile to whatever format you need.
HtmlHelp (.CHM)
WinHelp (.HLP)
Website Help
Printable Manuals
MS Word Manuals
PDF
Windows Mobile Help
wxWidgets Help
http://www.quick-help.com/
HelpSmith
HelpSmith is an innovative help authoring tool allowing you to make CHM HTML Help files, Web Help, Printed Manuals, and PDF documents from the same source help project. The stand-alone and very simple-to-use environment includes a powerful Unicode word-processor with dynamic styles and live spell checker, support for Templates and Variables, advanced approach to working with graphical and video files, automatic correction system, and many other useful tools.
http://www.helpsmith.com/
Author-it
Make and maintain content once for all deliverables
Familiar, user-friendly authoring interface
Simply reuse content via drag and drop
Remove formatting requirements
Make. Collaborate. Reuse.
Using Author-it's secure environment, authors and publishers can collaborate and reuse information across many documents and projects, making consistent content from a single source. By working together jobs are completed quicker, more accurately and with far less duplication.
http://www.author-it.com/
Help Authoring Tools (HATs) that are integrated with Microsoft Word
Doc-To-Help
Write or import content in Microsoft Word®, HTML, or Doc-To-Help’s editor and then publish professional quality outputs for desktop, Web, and print use. That’s the power of Doc-To-Help. Just focus on the content; Doc-To-Help produces impressive and useful deliverables for virtually any communication needs you may have.
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/DocToHelp/
XDK
Turning Word into an XML Workshop!!
At last… a new generation authoring tool for documentation professionals. It’s a gorgeous marriage of advanced technology with clean-and-simple design. It’s called XDK and it will empower you to efficiently make online documents and help systems that will really deliver for your readers.
XDK is a serious authoring tool. It has got to be one of the simplest tools to use, yet has so many power- features borne from the experience of supporting over 40,000 HDK customers worldwide. Here’s just a snapshot of some of the highlights:
Utilizing the power of Word
Today, Word is a reasonably powerful document-editing tool. It delivers many clever design and proofing tools and it is able to integrate other office documents. Rather than give you a tool with an inferior editing environment and an unfamiliar interface, we’ve turned Word into a complete XML workshop.
XDK is a fully integrated dynamic pane within Word, so you get all the benefits of Word’s extended functionality, without the learning curve. This means better results in less time for you!
Getting Word to deliver XML
XDK uses the latest in online technology and formatting, XML. Only XML gives you the greatest degree of control over how your online documents will look. You also get to leverage off all the additional functionality XML provides. Even if you’ve got complex nested tables with bulleted lists and graphics, XDK will deliver an accurate edition for online.
And since XML is so powerful, when it comes to delivering your online documents and help systems, XDK can instantly make multiple editions using different technologies and designs from the one-source. You’re guaranteed that your project will look fantastic and perform well, no matter if it’s for the Internet, Intranet, or software application Help.
http://www.vmtech.com/xdk.htm
Help Producer
MGTEK Help Producer is a document conversion tool for that allows you to make professional HTML help systems from a Microsoft® Word® document.
Help Producer is an add-in that is seamlessly integrated into the user interface of Microsoft Word, which makes authoring a help file as simple as writing a regular Word document. With a click on a button, Help Producer will analyze your Word document and generate all files necessary to build a help file, such as project files, table of contents files, index files, HTML topic files, and graphics.
Help Producer can take advantage of many of Microsoft Word's existing editing and formatting features, including colors, fonts, styles, lists, tables, embedded pictures or objects, and even auto-shapes. In addition to the ability to leverage off the authoring features offered by Microsoft Word, Help Producer has many innovative and exciting features that will help technical writers make professional help files.
http://www.mgtek.com/helpproducer/
Converters for Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, and XML-DITA documents
ePublisher
The ePublisher Platform allows technical communicators to achieve their business goals by:
Automatically converting and publishing documentation from one format (FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, DITA) to another desired format, such as: Eclipse Help, WinHelp, Java Help, HTML Help, PDF, XHTML, HTML and Confluence, Media, MoinMoin Wiki.
Utilizing a design function that allows an administrator or designer to choose the look, feel and behavior of the final content.
Producing documentation that allows users of product documentation to access the information they need quickly, improving overall user experience.
Reducing the need for documentation stored outside of the approved documentation architecture.
Alleviating the need to buy multiple software packages in order to publish or convert your content from multiple formats.
http://www.webworks.com/Solutions/By_Role/Technical_Communicator/
ReWorx
From Word to Web with zero coding!!
ReWorx is a ‘perfectly simple’ way to make full-featured online document systems automatically from within Word.
Using only six steps, you are able to produce powerful online document systems automatically from within Word. ReWorx will convert your Word documents using the latest XML technology for reliable formatting and enhanced end-user functionality. And the fantastic thing is, you don’t have to know anything about HTML, XML or the Web! Simply make your documents in Word and then use ReWorx to republish them to the Internet, Intranet or Help.
Right single-source for print and online
Since ReWorx does such a brilliant job of making online document systems from Word documents, you can continue to do all your development within Word. This means that from the one source document, you are able to make both printed and online output. One source file to maintain means less work for you and fewer mistakes… your print and online versions are effectively locked together.
http://www.vmtech.com/reworx.htm
Mif2Go
Mif2Go is the fastest, simplest, and least expensive way to convert your FrameMaker files for online Help, Word, and the Web.
Quick, accurate conversion from FrameMaker MIF to HTML, XML, printable Word RTF, HTML Help, and many more Help formats!
FrameMaker plus Mif2Go does it all, quicker, better, and cheaper. Convert single files or entire books in one operation.
We support Windows FrameMaker 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6, and 5.5 fully with our plugin, and convert MIF produced on any platform from FM 4 on.
WinNT/2K/XP are preferred, but Win9x/ME/Vista are also supported; sorry, UNIX and Mac versions are not available at this time. Mif2Go does, but, run on OS X under Parallels (or other virtualization environments) with a Windows version of FrameMaker.
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/mif2go_main.htm
Word-2-CHM
A powerful CHM creator/generator helping you to make professional HTML help. Convert Word document (.doc, .rtf, .htm, etc.) to perfect HTML help or CHM e-book without any HTML or CHM skills. Make CHM file in seconds with a single click. Keep the format/style/layout of the original document. Make topic tree according to the outline of the Word document.
http://www.macrobject.com/en/word-2-chm/index.htm
Word-2-Web/HTML
A powerful Web online document creator/generator help you to make professional Web help. Convert Word document (.doc, .rtf, .htm, etc.) to perfect Web help and full fit for your web site. Make online help to be integrated into your web site in seconds with a single click. Keep the format/style/layout (include images and tables) of the original Word document. Make topic tree according to the outline of the Word document.
http://www.macrobject.com/en/word-2-web/index.htm
CHM-2-Web
A powerful CHM convertor helping you to make Web help on your web site from HTML help. Convert CHM to perfect Web help in seconds. Keep format/styles of original compiled HTML Help and make topic tree.
http://www.macrobject.com/en/chm-2-web/index.htm
CHM-2-Word
A powerful CHM convertor helping you to make Word document from HTML help. Convert CHM files to perfect Word document without any HTML or CHM skills. Make Word document from CHM file in seconds with a single click. Keep the format/style/layout (include images and tables) of the original CHM file. Embed all images into Word document and no external files are required.
http://www.macrobject.com/en/chm-2-word/index.htm
CHM-2-HTML
A powerful CHM convertor helping you to make HTML document from HTML help. Convert CHM files to perfect HTML document without any HTML or CHM skills. Make HTML document from CHM file in seconds with a single click. Keep the format/style/layout (include images and tables) of the original CHM file. Embed all images into HTML/MHT document and no external files are required.
http://www.macrobject.com/en/chm-2-html/index.htm
WordToWeb
The Word to HTML Converter that integrates directly with Microsoft Word
WordToWeb 2.5 is a Word to HTML converter that makes it simple and automatic to make fully formatted, linked HTML publications from within Microsoft Word. WordToWeb picks up where Word's built-in "Save as HTML" feature leaves off--completely automating the Word document to HTML conversion process and saving hours of tedious HTML editing, linking, formatting and other conversion issues.
Need to convert a technical manual or other long Word document into HTML, complete with a table of contents, index and simple frame-based navigation? Or perhaps you need to convert lots of existing Word documents to HTML, get them online and format them to match the design and layout of your website...
WordToWeb's simple-to-use wizard interface makes it a breeze to convert any Word document to HTML!
http://www.solutionsoft.com/w2w.htm
Assembly, component, and code documentation Tools
Doc-O-Matic Professional
Doc-O-Matic Professional enables you to develop, manage and maintain both source code documentation and Help authoring projects. With its advanced management and QA features and its wide variety of output formats its suitable for any kind of project, no matter how huge.
This version supports C/C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, IDL, Java, ASPX, JSP, JavaScript, Matlab and PHP. Source code documentation can be done in-source and off-source, both Unicode and ANSI source files are supported.
Doc-O-Matic Professional makes it possible to make Online Help and printable documents from a single source, it supports PDF, Web Help/browser based Help, HTML Help, Help 2, Windows Help and XML output. Documentation authoring and output design are completely separated, targeting different audiences with multiple configurations and setups has never been simpler.
http://www.doc-o-matic.com/editions_professional.html
Document! X
Document! X automates the process of making and maintaining documentation for a wide range of solution elements:
.NET Framework Assemblies (.NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0);
Compiled COM Components and Controls;
COM Type Libraries;
ASP.NET Ajax Javascript;
Access, SQL Server and other Databases with an OLEDB driver
http://www.innovasys.com/products/dx2010/overview.aspx
West Wind Html Help Builder
Make end user or developer documentation and help files quickly and easily with Help Builder. Help Builder's unique environment focuses on making documentation content quickly with an interactive editor using design templates that let you concentrate on content creation. Make documentation for Html Help 1.0 and 2.0, Html and Word formats. If you're a developer you can quickly import and document .NET, FoxPro and COM objects, Web Services, Sql Server and FoxPro databases. Help Builder is your one stop documentation solution.
http://www.west-wind.com/wwHelp/
VSdocman
VSdocman Code Commenter and Generator of Class Documentation for VB .NET and C#
Generate documentation for your .NET code on professional level. See how simple the commenting can be with powerful comment templates and sophisticated WYSIWYG comment editor.
Make MSDN-like assembly documentation, IntelliSense and F1 context sensitive help for your Visual Basic .NET and C# projects (including ASP .NET).
http://www.helixoft.com/vsdocman/overview.html
VBdocman
VBdocman Commenter and Generator of Technical Documentation for VB 6
Generate technical documentation from your Visual Basic 6 source code with single click. Let the comment editor make complex JavaDoc comments.
VBdocman makes documentation in various formats with the table of contents, index, topics, cross-references, and context sensitive help.
http://www.helixoft.com/vbdocman/overview.html
GenHelp and GenHelp Pro
GenHelp and GenHelp Pro are new generation tools to help in documenting code and making help files.
They take source files and import them to produce a file that can be used to make several forms of documentation.
The files provided can then be shipped out with components, giving a much more professional product.
GenHelp can also produce simple normal help files without requiring knowledge of rich text coding.
http://www.frasersoft.net/genhelp/index.htm
TwinText™
TwinText™ is a simple yet powerful source code documentation tool. It allows you to make documentation based on your code comments for a wide range of programming languages and code commenting styles, all without tags, complex rules, or XML.
Document from the source
ONE TOOL, multiple languages
20+ documentation output styles
Windows and Unix file handling
Supports virtually any comment box
Scales up to thousands of files
GUI and command line interface
http://www.ptlogica.com/TwinText/overview.htm
AS2Doc Pro
AS2Doc is a powerful, simple to use and quick documentation generator for your ActionScript 2 based classes.
AS2Doc reads your sourcecode, included comments and makes a rich content documentation automaticly!
You can choose various options to customize your documentation. Various output formats are supported by using AS2Doc Styles (XSL). You can even write your own style for any custom output format!
http://www.as2doc.com/
VisDoc
VisDoc generates html documentation from ActionScript 2.0, 3.0 and Java class files
From December 2009 VisDoc is free (as in beer).
VisDoc integrates a smart processor to parse class files - you don't need to prepare or rewrite your classes. Even if you don't use doc comments, you can generate handy class documentation with a Table of Contents.
Class relations mean everything. VisDoc links interfaces, superclasses and their methods and properties to give a quick overview how classes are connected.
Flexibility is built in: documentation pages are formatted with editable templates (XSL and CSS). Just customize to have your own layout and style.
Changed some classes? Start up the application and hit the Process button - VisDoc remembers all your settings from the last time. You can also save these settings in a project file, so you can use multiple projects without changing settings inbetween.
For even more speed, update only modified or added files. VisDoc detects which files have been updated since the last run, and can process only those.
http://visiblearea.com/visdoc/
Sandcastle
Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:
• Works with or without authored comments
• Supports Generics and .NET Framework 2.0
• Sandcastle has 2 main components (MrefBuilder and Build Assembler)
• MrefBuilder generates reflection xml file for Build Assembler
• Build Assembler includes syntax generation, transformation..etc
• Sandcastle is used internally to build .Net Framework documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&displaylang=en#Overview
ROBODoc
It is hard to keep documentation in sync with source code. One of the reasons is that documentation and source code are stored in separate files that usually also require different editors to edit them. ROBODoc solves this problem. Specially formatted documentation headers are extracted from source files and stored in a different file. ROBODoc can reformat the documentation in HTML, XML DocBook, TROFF, ASCII, LaTeX or RTF format. Indirectly you can convert to pdf and windows help format.
This way ROBODoc allows you to include your documentation in the source code. You can edit the source code as well as the documentation in a single file with your favourite editor. This makes it simpler to keep your documentation in sync with your source code.
ROBODoc can be used to document functions, methods, classes, variables, makefile entries, system tests, and anything else you can reckon of.
ROBODoc works with C, C++, Fortran, Perl, shell scripts, Assembler, DCL, DB/C, Tcl/Tk, Forth, Lisp, COBOL, Occam, Basic, HTML, Clarion, and any other language that supports remarks.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rfsber/Robo/robodoc.html
Javadoc
Javadoc is a tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/
HeaderDoc
HeaderDoc is a tool for generating HTML reference documentation from comments in headers, and source code written in C, C++, Objective-C , Java, JavaScript, Pascal, PHP, Perl, MIG, and shell scripts. It is written in Perl for simple portability. Similar to JavaDoc, it allows developers to easily document their interfaces and export that information into HTML.
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/headerdoc.html
Doxygen
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.
It can help you in three ways:
It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in ) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much simpler to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.
You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. You can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.
You can even `abuse' doxygen for making normal documentation (as I did for this manual).
Doxygen is developed under Linux and Mac OS X, but is set-up to be highly portable. As a result, it runs on most other Unix flavors as well. Furthermore, executables for Windows are available.
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
DoxyS
DoxyS, a C++ documentation tool.
DoxyS is a code documentation tool for C++/C. DoxyS strives to yield a very professional looking output, presenting the the code in a structured simple to navigate set of HTML pages. Simple to use: Just navigate to the root of your code directory and type doxys.
Currently it runs on Windows and Linux, but should be quite portable.
Main features
Generated output reflects the code directory structure.
Layers of abstraction with heavy use of overview tables providing names and brief descriptions of classes, functions etc. Inspired by Microsoft documentation.
Wiki like syntax for writing directory level documentation and related documentation pages or even design documents.
Inheritance, collaboration graphs
Excellent support for overloded functions and template specializations.
Incremental search.
http://www.doxys.dk/doxys_homepage/index.html
VBDoxygen
VB doxygen is a Visual Basic addin that converts VB code into java like syntax for processing through the doxygen documentation generator. This allows the production of advanced documentation for Visual Basic.
http://vbdoxygen.sourceforge.net/
Natural Docs
Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it.
http://www.naturaldocs.org/
For more Source Code Documentation Generators, refer to the following wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_generators
Tools related to Linux and Mac OS
QuickHelp
Author help on Macintosh or Windows, then deploy it on both platforms. With conditional help topics and text, the same help file can present customized help based on the specific platform or your product edition. Help information can even be parameterized when your application is installed or at runtime making it simple to fully customize the user experience.
QuickHelp authoring requires no programming experience or HTML knowledge. In minutes, you can start making a professional help system that works with any Macintosh or Windows application regardless of the development system or programming language used to make it.
http://www.excelsoftware.com/quickhelpplatforms.html
HelpLogic
Available for Mac OS X, HelpLogic's award-winning design removes the development headaches usually associated with help authoring. With time-saving features like the built-in Visual TOC Builder, Project Workshop, HTML Editor, Link Manager and more, HelpLogic is the ideal solution for cross-platform software developers, help authors, web site designers, and documentation writers.
http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/
Simple Help Editor
Smart software developers know the importance of excellent documentation. Simple Help Editor helps you make fantastic online Help the smart way. It offers more power and flexibility than ever before.
Simple Help Editor 4.1 makes it simple to make and re-use content for different platforms, different products, or different versions. You can produce Help content for viewing in Apple Help Viewer, Windows' HTML Help viewer, or a Web browser. Changing from one to another can be as simple as a few mouse clicks.
http://www.pandaware.com/simple/index.html
HelpBlocks
Anthemion HelpBlocks is an HTML authoring tool specifically designed for writing cross-platform application help, generating Microsoft HTML Help and wxWidgets HTML Help files.
With HelpBlocks, you can:
easily make a hierarchical structure appropriate for your manual;
write HTML rapidly with the aid of a syntax-highlighting editor, macro preprocessor and HTML element catalog;
preview your help file as you work;
make a keyword index for your help file;
generate and view Microsoft HTML Help and wxWidgets HTML Help files.
Why not also try our dialog editor for wxWidgets - DialogBlocks. Cross-platform dialog editing made as simple as - well, wxWidgets itself.
HelpBlocks provides tools to help make writing your manual as straightforward as possible. Auto-complete and an attribute editor speed up HTML element insertion. Specialised dialogs allow quick selection of page references, images and colours. Project and page templates make light work of making new projects and pages.
If you have an existing MS HTML Help project, you can import it when you make a new HelpBlocks project.
And of course, HelpBlocks is cross-platform - edit your files on Windows, Linux or Mac.
http://www.helpblocks.com/
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