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Subject:Re: Win-Mac Online Help Development Tools From:Kathryn J Acciari <acciari -at- ACSU -dot- BUFFALO -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:10:32 -0500
Tony,
ForeHelp may be the product you are looking for. (I'm not sure if
RoboHelp works on Mac.) We use ForeHelp for our cross-platform apps here
at the Univ at Buffalo. It's very easy to learn, perhaps not as
sophisticated as RoboHelp, but it definitely does convert for the Mac.
I write and compile the help file in Windows, pass it on to the engineers
as a .hlp file, and they build it into the app. When they do the
converstion of the application to Mac, the help file gets included.
Kathryn J Acciari Technical Writer/Communicator
Buffalo, New York
acciari -at- acsu -dot- buffalo -dot- edu
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Tony G. Rocco wrote:
> ...we've decided that we need to develop help using an authoring
> tool like AppleGuide or RoboHelp. We want to produce online help for both
> platforms in one process, so we would like to find a single authoring tool
> for both Mac and NT platforms. Second best would be a conversion utility
> that would allow us to recompile help files for the other platform.
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