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
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Alternative HATSExploring Lesser Known Help Authoring Tools
Devan Vanden Boomen and Kimberly Kane
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Tools We’ll Cover
HelpIQ
Help + Manual
Oxygen XML Author
TextMate
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Criteria
Output formats
Ease-of-Use (UI/Layout)
Support
System Requirements
Cost
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Output Formats
Source
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Output Formats cont’d
HelpIQ
CHM
E-book
ePub
HTML
ODF
RTF
Webhelp + Mobile
XHTML
Conditional Tagging
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Ease-of-Use cont’d
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HelpIQ
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Help + Manual
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Oxygen XML Author
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TextMate
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Support cont’d
HelpIQ
Book
Document
Fax
Online Help
Phone
Public Forums
Screencasts
Videos
Webinars
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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
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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
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Questions