HelpViewer.app - viewing, scanning & printing NEXTSTEP on-line help

Version 1.2 introduces the Help Compander, a tool for
compressing and expanding NEXTSTEP on-line help.

Users can expand an application's compressed on-line help into
a help folder in original "source code" form, perform certain
automatic repair actions or manual modifications, and compress
the help folder back into the application's on-line help.

Developers can bypass the ProjectBuilder application completely
and let the Help Compander perform all required steps to generate
the Help.store file, including a final verification run to detect
infamous "compresshelp" bug.

-- expand help stores to help folders
-- compress help folders to help stores
-- verify help store contents
   -- detect damaged files
   -- check and repair "find by keyword" functionality
-- verify help folder contents
   -- remove useless files
   -- detect missing help files
   -- detect RTFD file inconsistencies
   -- automatically create/update .index.store files
   -- reduce the disk space required by help folders to about 50%
-- compare different versions of a help folder
   (in a far more suitable way than FileMerge can)

The Help Compander tool is fully licensed until Apr 15, 1996.
After April 15th, you can request a FREE time-limited
license key to be able to test-drive the Help Compander.
(1.x license keys of registered users already have an
inherent license for the Help Compander tool built in.)


Other new features in release 1.2 (choose Info -> Release Notes for details)

-- You can now re-open an application as often as you like,
   as well as open HelpViewer's own on-line help.

-- A copy of the currently displayed help file can now be opened
   in Edit with a single command.

-- The scale factor in the Page Layout panel now works, which
   enables printing of unusually wide on-line help as well.

-- Optional scanning of an application's main NIB file now
   displays menus and commands in correct order.

-- Optional auto-addition of missing 'Index' entry to the TOC.

-- Optional prompt for confirmation of the Quit command when
   scanning results could be lost unintentionally.

-- "HVSetup" and the new "HCSetup" are registered file types now,
   so you can load a setup by double-clicking in the File Viewer.

-- A few bug fixes.


General application description

With HelpViewer, you can view any application's on-line help,
and print all help pages, or just selected chapters or pages,
with help links replaced by page numbers.
Auto-scanning of all hidden help files. Auto-chaptering.
Customizable Table of Contents, headers, and footers.

Developers can scan their own application's on-line help to
locate and correct help links to nonexistent help files,
help links to nonexistent markers within existing help files,
and duplicate marker definitions in help files.

HelpViewer speaks English, French, and German.


Fully licensable demo - for informations on how to purchase
a license key for $39 US, send electronic mail to <stefan@ping.at>,
or visit the HelpViewer World Wide Web home page at
<http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/HelpViewer/>.

Contact:

Stefan Schneider Software
 DI Stefan Schneider
 Lerchenfelder St. 85/6
 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe
 +43-1-523-5834
 stefan@ping.at
 http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/HelpViewer/