The Dr.Explain features overview

Documenting the software user interface (GUI)

• Application windows capturing and automatic annotation

• Web pages capturing and automatic annotation

• Shockwave Flash (SWF) applications capturing and automatic annotation

• Menu with submenus automatic capturing and annotation

• Numbered callouts for significant controls

• Screenshot editing and formatting

• Text labels placement

• Visual effects and styles

• Pop up tooltips for screenshot areas

Help topic management

• Help file structure management

• Subtopic indexes

• Keyword index

• Topic completeness statuses

• Topic locking \ unlocking

Content editing

• Full-featured text editor

• Support of links, images, tables, lists, fonts

• Text macro variables

• Spell checker with national dictionaries

• Multibyte languages (Asian, Arabic) support through Unicode

• RTL mode support

Generating help files

• Creating portable CHM help files

• Creating on-line manuals in HTML format

• Creating printable manuals in RTF

Plugging the help files into software applications

• Context Help ID support

• Automatic Help ID assigning and importing

• Help ID map files generation for various programming languages

• Opening help files by topic file name or by Help ID

Customizing help pages look and style for plugging manual into website

• HTML templates

• Color themes

• Custom CSS

• Help file navigation links

• Active JavaScript tree-like menu for on-line manuals

• Print versions of pages

• Google sitemap generator

Advanced tools

• Validation tool

• Compacting tool

• Command line mode