Help Authoring Tools

Join Softarex Affiliate Program

Posted by: softarex on: May 19, 2009

Now it is possible to join Softarex Affiliate Program and earn up to 70% for ActoStudio sales generated by you!

After you have registered in our affiliate system, we review all your requests during 1 business day. You will be notified via email about the approval of your request. After you have successfully passed through all the stages of registration process, you can start making your profit.

You will receive your profit each month by wire transfer method. The payment will be sent before the 20th day of the next month for sales made on the previous month.You can control the status of your sales through our online system every day. In order to do this, just login into your account with your Username and Password.

So go ahead and start making money right now!

Great Chance to use ActoStudio for Free!

Posted by: softarex on: March 19, 2009

ActoStudio is a help authoring tool for creating help files and multimedia manuals.

If you are willing to create professional looking help files and manuals, insert screenshots and convert power point presentations to SWF, and moreover to be able to do it all using only one tool – then you might be interested in purchasing ActoStudio. It is a cost-effective solution that will save you time and effort. If you however consider the price of ActoStudio too high to afford, Softarex offers you a perfect chance to use ActoStudio for free!

All you need to do is become a member or our beta-testers community by filling out the registration form on Softarex web site. The beta-testers community members are eligible for a fully functional free license. The membership also provides you with the ability to receive updates and new version for free. In return we only ask you to provide Softarex with reports describing your experience with the product, possible problems, suggestions or ideas of how to make ActoStudio better.

By becoming a member of the community you will save your money and benefit from using our powerful help authoring tool, and at the same time your feedback will help the ActoStudio developers better understand you needs, so that we will improve the tool and make it fit all your requirements.

Take your chance and get the free ActoStudio activation key!

ActoStudio – new generation help authoring tool

Posted by: softarex on: March 18, 2009

Softarex presents its new generation help authoring tool – ActoStudio. It is designed to increase efficiency and productivity. It provides integrated development environment for creating manuals, software Demos and presentations which then can be used for web sites as well as users’ manuals.  With this integration, ActoStudio gains additional strength through its cutting-edge features and helps you resolve all problems related to the development of modern multimedia manuals.

 

ActoStudio is a straight-forward solution to improve your work productivity and save you much time. Features for high efficiency include the ability to create ready-to-use video demos for your software, convert presentation from PowerPoint to SWF, create manuals by importing from MS Word, develop HTML pages and then combine them all in one impressive user manual. This user manual can then be compiled into CHM file, which is a standard for any software application help. Only with ActoStudio you have everything you need to develop professional-looking help files and manuals for your software

 

ActoStudio supports Windows XP/Vista with .NET Framework 2.0. ActoStudio is available immediately for purchase at www.softarex.com with a competitive price of $499 and 30-day free trial period.

Application Area

Every modern software application must be provided with context-sensitive help system. With DocArchitector you can create clear, well-structured and professional looking help files and manuals for your software applications. The application ActoStudio 3.0 is just for you if you want to create *.chm or *.doc (*.docx) help files based on *.htm and files with graphical and multimedia information such as image files, audio and video files. Simple and comfortable interface allows you to create professional looking help files easily.

 

Users

ActoStudio 3.0 (as a help authoring and documentation writing tool) is determined for a wide range of users: help authors and developers, technical writers, technical communicators, editors, web developers or any other users who need to create any kind of product-support documentation.

 

Level of User Preparation

Users with medium and low level of preparation can easily use the program because it is provided with simple and comfortable Office-2007 style interface. With this new interface users can install ActoStudio 3.0 and start working with the application without even spending time for studying help! Intuitive, clear and user-friendly interface makes your work simple as 1-2-3. The application uses such words as “Project”, “Page”, “Image” etc. which hide difficult and specific moments connected with creation of final information file. All you need you can find in seconds. Moreover the WYSIWYG HTML Editor makes the HTML preparation process very fast and easy. That makes our help authoring software easy and powerful for any user.

 

Short Description of Functionality

ActoStudio 3.0 application consists of several dependent modules. These modules have original functional possibilities. For your professional looking help files and manuals ActoStudio 3.0 provides you with the following functionalities:

  • Project Manager – this module is for creating and editing projects (information files).
  • HTML Editor – visual editor of html pages. This WYSIWYG editor allows you to create and edit html files without having any deep knowledge in web technologies. This module has the functionality for editing the code of html pages for more skilled users.
  • Contents Editor – users can create and edit the table of contents of any level of difficulty for information files with the help of this module. Also this module allows users to create keywords index bounded to any of the topics of information file.
  • ScreenShotMaker Program – user can capture window screenshots with the help of this module. This functionality also allows creating the collection of image files for further application in information file.
  • SubProgram Graphics Editor – this module includes a set of basic graphics primitives which allows user to edit images for information file.
  • SubProgram ScreenOnVideo – using this module you can generate video files from the set of image and audio files. It allows creating slide-show with acoustic accomplishment as well as record the acoustic accomplishment by microphone connected to the PC.

Fully functional 30 days trial version is available for immediate download from Softarex website. Trial version of our help authoring tool will have the following limitations: trial text in pages’ headers, maximum 25 files can be compiled into output authorings.

DocArchitector Pro 2.0 – your professional Help Authoring Tool

Posted by: softarex on: December 23, 2008

DocArchitector 2.0 is released. New features and improvements.

Softarex is glad to announce the release of the New version of DocArchitector! Here you can learn more about the great new features of DocArchitector Pro 2.0. 

  • MS Word documentation format support

Now in version 2.0 of our Help Authoring Tool it is possible to import/export for Office 97-2003 (*.doc) and 2007 (*.docx) files. That means you can create your help files in Microsoft Word format as well as import DOC files into your projects. Flexible import/export options will allow you making any word document to fit you DocArchitector projects.

 

Office 97-2003 (*.doc) and 2007 (*.docx) documents are supported for your professional looking print-ready manuals!

Support of other formats (WinHelp, PDF, RTF, Web-based help) will come in future releases of our Help Authoring Tool

 

  • Single source – multiple output features

Together with previously available support of help files in CHM format and newly released support of Doc format, DocArchitector 2.0 now provides single source – multiple output features. Single sourcing allows users to create documents in various technical formats from the same content. So writing your help files with DocArchitector 2.0 you can use the same content (e.g. the same set of source files) and generate the output documentation in CHM and DOC formats.

Use the same project as the source for multiple kinds of your manuals and help files!

 

  • Regular functionality improvements

Improved usability of embedded HTML editor will make your work with DocArchitector faster and even more pleasant!

 

Browser Preview tab now has navigation panel which provides comfortable navigation through your source files.

 

Also many minor issues, related to program operation, are now improved.

                       

  • Even better GUI

User interface is improved to reflect all changes in DA functionality.

 

  • Improved ScreenOnVideo and Graphics Editor

Taking into account users’ feedbacks we have improved functionality of GraphicsEditor and ScreenOnVideo to make them more comfortable to use.

 

  • Enhanced Unicode Support

All new pages are now created in unicode charset and user has a possibility
to convert imported non-unicode pages to unicode.

 

Fully functional 30 days trial version will also be available for download from Softarex website. Trial version of our authoring tool will have following limitations: trial text in pages’ headers, maximum 25 files can be compiled into output authorings.

Welcome to the world of Innovative Tools. Our company Softarex Ltd works every day on creating new generation tools for Software Design, Software Development and Help Authoring. Main idea of our products consists in providing to our users impressive list of features combined with perfect price. So our products have best features list/price ratio.

Main idea of this blog is to provide people with information about our activities and to create discussion about what sofware design and development products must be! This is the main idea and goal of our blog !

Download our Help Authoring Tool DocArchitector HERE ! We are welcome to any of your comments.

Our world will be a line of all necessary tools for web development, software architecting and design, source code documenting and manuals development tools. Now we present to you our first product from our product line. Be familiar with DocArchitector.

DocArchitector is a help authoring and manuals development tool for compiling helps to CHM files and other formats. Now we are finishing the second version of DocArchitector which will provide full set of instruments for working with MS Word documents.

In this blog we will inform you about all news and development activity. Stay in touch with us and you will be able to learn more about our new products!

Screen Recording Tool

Posted by: softarex on: October 25, 2008

It is easy-to learn, easy-to-use but still powerful software that can save you much time and make you workflow fluent!

 ScreenOnVideo is the smartest video files creating software, which allows easily generate video files from the set of image and audio files.

It will especially suit software developers and help authors as well as teachers willing to create their engaging videos. And not only can beginners use it simply but also experienced users can use it for creating sophisticated video files.

ScreenOnVideo can be a useful tool for making demonstrations, compelling teaching and training videos, lectures, polished tutorials and presentations.

ScreenOnVideo is a full-featured, yet easy-to-use video editor that enables you to fulfill various editing tasks like adding texts, sound, basic graphics primitives, changing the duration and more.

ScreenOnVideo is a right choice because its perfect features and benefits are: Intuitive and easy to use customizable user interface with different visual styles support, generation of output video file in avi, wmv and swf. You can always use ScreenOnVideo as a standalone application to generate video files from your custom sets of images and audio files. Graphics Editor included into package allows modifying images to be used for producing video files.

ScreenOnVideo comes as a separate software product that can be purchased at http://softarex.com/product.html for as low as $49. A full-functional 30 day trial is also available for download via http://softarex.com/trial_download.php?id=3.

ScreenOnVideo also comes integrated with DocArchitector Pro 2.0 as a screen capture application for customizing your product-support documents.