Features
Essential
Single Source All outputs are created from the same single source. Write only once and publish many times. Single sourcing keeps content of your help system or manual perfectly consistent and keeps all your outputs up to date.
Multilanguage Full multilanguage support allows you to translate your manuals and maintain them in several languages. Helptrix ensures that all languages have the same content.
Focus On Content You can focus only on content you are writing instead of annoying formatting. You can set formatting rules later when you create the outputs.
Outputs
HTML Help Microsoft HTML Help is standard online Windows help format since Windows 98. Provides indexes, quick search and context sensitive help for your users.
PDF Output Adobe PDF is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution with great printing abilities. With PDF, your manuals are ready to be printed immediately or shipped electronical way.
HTML Use web browser based help for placing your manual on Internet or intranet. It is perfect solution for multi-platform environment.
DocBook XML Create your manual in XML format according to DocBook standard. DocBook shifts your work to the higher level with the variety of its free tools.
Creating Outputs Graphical user interface for creating outputs. Just select the language and the type of the output.
United Look Layout of your outputs is done automatically, which means that your manual is looking same way in each output and for each language version.
Automation When producing output, chapters and topics are numbered, table of content with page numbers is created, figures and tables are numbered, description for links are created. All of this and more is in proper language and is done automatically for you.
User Interface
Intuitive User Interface Editor window is designed in three pane style. User interface looks like HTML Help output. Use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) user interface for very easy topic editing.
Conditional Output Conditional output allows you to assign parts of your manual only to online or printed output. This is perfectly suitable for images, when you can assign color image in low quality to appear only in online output and grayscale high quality image to appear in printed version.
Context Sensitive Help Allows you to connect parts of your application with certain topics. Really easy, fully graphical assigning context help IDs from your application to topics in your help system. Context sensitive help is present in HTML Help output and with Helptrix also in browser based output in HTML format!
Topic Status Topics include date and time stamp, and can be marked with status of completion. All this helps you to keep track of topics, where some work left.
Links And Images Easy visual inserting of links to another topics and inserting of images. Using proper version of images for each language is preserved.
Index Words Each topic can include index keywords, that in the final output provide user of your help with quick access to desired information.
Productivity
Collaborative Work Export your projects into ZIP archive and send it to all your translators via e-mail. When translated projects are back, import languages directly from ZIP file.
Quick Backup One-click backup of your project directly to ZIP file.
Open Solution Helptrix is based on XML technology. All help content is stored in plain XML files, so it can be reused by another applications or created by another application from scratch as well. DocBook standard is supported, which means possibility of adding more output formats due to your needs.