alternative help authoring tools (hats)
DESCRIPTION
We look at four Help Authoring Tools alternative to Adobe Framemaker, Robohelp, and MadCap Flare. - HelpIQ - Help + Manual - Oxygen XML Author - TextMate Presented in Writing for Software Products at George Brown College on June 3rd 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Alternative HATSExploring Lesser Known Help Authoring Tools
Devan Vanden Boomen and Kimberly Kane
Tools We’ll Cover
HelpIQ
Help + Manual
Oxygen XML Author
TextMate
Criteria
Output formats
Ease-of-Use (UI/Layout)
Support
System Requirements
Cost
Output Formats
Source
Output Formats cont’d
HelpIQ
CHM
E-book
ePub
HTML
ODF
RTF
Webhelp + Mobile
XHTML
Conditional Tagging
Ease-of-Use cont’d
HelpIQ
Help + Manual
Oxygen XML Author
TextMate
Support cont’d
HelpIQ
Book
Document
Fax
Online Help
Phone
Public Forums
Screencasts
Videos
Webinars
System Requirements cont’dHelpIQ
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
OSX 10.5
OSX 10.6
OSX 10.7
OSX 10.8
OSX 10.9
Cost cont’d
$60.00/month or $600.00/yrTeam of 5
$398.00 $349.00 $55.00
$160.00/month or $1440.00/yr
Team of 20
$595.00 $423.00
$1295 $21.50/mo for 6 months
$19.08/mo for 12 months
Questions