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At 8:41 AM -0700 11/4/99, Carl L. Young wrote:
>I've a client who has a cross-platform software product. They are using PDF
>to create help files, but want to investigate other solutions.
>I've been out of the Mac market for years; I found something in the
>Techwriter's archive about Macs supporting HTMLHelp. Is this true, and if
>so, what versions of the MacOS support it? I especially want to know what
>tools are available to create Win and Mac online help.
>
>>The contents of the Apple Help SDK enable developers to create html
>>based help files that can be used with the Apple Help on Mac OS 8.6 or
>>later systems. The SDK contains the Apple Help documentation, the tools
>>necessary to create Sherlock type indexes, example help files and a
>>tutorial.
I'm looking into it, but at this time I don't think that it's possible to
produce help in Mac and PC formats without a bit of post-processing... I'll
letcha know what I come up with.
regards,
dan'l
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