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.