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

PDF

RTF

Webhelp + Mobile

XHTML

Conditional Tagging

Ease-of-Use

Source

Ease-of-Use cont’d

HelpIQ

Help + Manual

Oxygen XML Author

TextMate

Support

Source

Support cont’d

HelpIQ

Book

Document

E-mail

Fax

Online Help

Phone

Public Forums

Screencasts

Videos

Webinars

System Requirements

Source

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

Source

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