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Dr.Explain Documents Your Software Application Automatically

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CONTACT: Dennis Crane
info[at]drexplain.com

DR.EXPLAIN DOCUMENTS YOUR SOFTWARE APPLICATION AUTOMATICALLY

Cognitive Force Group introduces Dr.Explain for Windows 2000/XP, a new software tool that automates the authoring of help systems. Dr.Explain captures windows from a live application, creates screenshots and automatically adds references to all window's controls: buttons, edit fields, radio buttons, dropdown lists, and other elements. The technology enables you to write software manuals fast and without exhausting text and image formatting.

While other window capture tools are mostly used for image processing, Dr.Explain analyzes the structure of a window's elements, enumerates them, and attaches numbered callouts to all significant elements. You may easily customize the appearance of the labels, screenshots, and callouts. Dr.Explain recognizes various controls and creates titled labels for them. You must just add some description if needed. This considerably reduces the time of documenting your application's graphical user interface.

All captured windows are stored in a single project file and may be grouped by modules. To update a certain window in the project when a new version of your software is ready you may easily replace the screenshot and add new control references. All previous references will be kept. You need not to waste your time by recreating them.

You may export a project at once into a set of HTML pages with screenshots, color callouts, menus, and index page. These pages are ready for immediate upload onto your web server or for conversion into another format. The program allows customizing the appearance of the visual elements, the structure of the menus and page layout.

The price of a single user license is $79(US).

To download a free demo copy, visit the Dr.Explain web site at http://www.drexplain.com/ . Screen shots, additional program information, and samples are available on the web site.

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Cognitive Force Group : Dr.Explain project
Dennis Crane, CEO
http://www.drexplain.com/
info[at]drexplain.com
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What your colleagues say
"We have successfully used your Dr.Explain program for our help file and also for some of the pages on the web. Great tool! Please let me add that Dr.Explain really has cut the job of explaining the user interface of ViceVersa by half (at least) and produced a very professional output."

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"We have found Dr.Explain to be an excellent tool - help files are now (almost) fun rather than being a tedious chore. All stages of help file construction are smooth and intuitive and the resultant help files look great. The time savings gained over coventional help authoring systems is considerable."

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"I can't recommend this product and company more highly. And, no, I'm not getting paid to gush. DE is just an excellent tool that every Technical Writer, Help Author, or Developer should keep in their arsenal."

Craig Prichard , Jager Building Systems Inc.

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