But my view is biased, Help+Manual is still the better tool, of course
I checked out HelpNDoc a couple of years ago and it did not impress me back then - but that was years ago and I guess they have improved the product quite a lot. However, I don't think that in this forum are many people who use both products and can therefore spot the differences.
Most customers/reviewers have a LinkedIn profile, it's possible to ask them directly, too. HelpNDoc is listed there as well, so you can compare it side-by-side with Help+Manual: You must use the same global name in all the projects.On G2 Crowd is a comparison list including customer reviews of several help tools. If you use this option the global help window name must begin with $global_, followed by an identifier consisting only of alphabetic characters. You need to set the same global window name in all projects in the modular help system, including the master project. The global help window option is set in Configuration > Publishing Options > Microsoft HTML Help > Help Windows. Without a global window, you will get additional help viewers opening when calls are made first to one module and then to another. When you define a global help window, all calls to the help system will open in the same CHM help viewer. This improves the performance of links to your help from your applications. When using runtime merging it is advisable to define a global "window name" for all the projects in the modular help system. (This is caused by uncorrected bugs in the Microsoft HTML Help system.) If you don't do this you will get an error opening the main CHM and the indexes of the child CHMs won't be available. In modular HTML Help (CHM) projects in which the child projects are merged in runtime mode, the master project must contain at least one topic and the default topic must be set in the master project. Master projects in runtime HTML Help (CHM) projects See Runtime and publish time merging in the Reference section for full details of the capabilities of these two different output methods for modular projects in HTML Help. All other output formats use publish-time merging only, merging all the modules in your project to create output that is exactly the same as output generated from a single project. This is called "publish-time merging".Ĭhoosing the merge method is only relevant for HTML Help. Alternatively, you can also combine all your modules to one large help file, just like the output from a single project.
In Microsoft HTML Help CHM files you can create genuine modular projects with separate help files that are displayed in a single TOC.
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