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PRC AcosHelp

– The new generation of PDF help
and Document Management systems

Test it for free! Buy it when you need it.

Introduction

PRC AcosHelp is the new "single source" Windows online help system using Adobe Acrobat PDF-files for context sensitive online help.

It is also very useful for Document Management systems, where the documents are stored as PDF-files.

PRC AcosHelp makes it possible to access any place in a PDF-file – page, heading or keyword – controlled from your application program:

Example of a context sensitive online help system using PRC AcosHelp:

The user clicks a help (toggle) button or a menu in your application. The cursor changes to .
The user clicks the object where help is wanted.
Adobe (Acrobat) Reader opens on the help text for the item selected, highlighting the heading or keyword.

Click here for an 8 sec. demo video (731 kB screencam).

Alternatively, you can make a system where the user press e.g. the F2 key for context sensitive help to the actual element (button, combo, text field ...) in focus.

Product review: The Indian techwriter journal IJTC No. 1, 2006 (KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication) includes a product review of AcosHelp. To read it click here, click REGISTER at the top to get a free password (if you don't have it already), log in, click the article in the TOC, and read it.

Applications

Context sensitive online help

Document management systems

working with:

Any Windows executable application (.exe file)

Microsoft Access and most other databases

Microsoft Word macros

Microsoft Excel and most other spreadsheets

PRC AcosHelp works with any number of single- or multi-language PDF-files and any number of languages for one project. The PDF-files may be placed on the PC of the user – or on the Internet. The PDF-file may be generated from any word processing or DTP application, for example Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word. It may have been written directly or by using XML.

Try AcosHelp NOW – for free!!!

For a first hands-on demo, download the free 100 % functioning demo version of AcosHelp Manager, install it on your PC, run it, and click the [How to get started] button. AcosHelp Manager is the application used for generating context sensitive online help based on the TOC(s) of the PDF(s) by simple copy & paste.

Then test other help functions – PRC AcosHelp Manager features context sensitive help using AcosHelp!

Finally test AcosHelp on one (or more) of your own applications for free! The only limitation is that you cannot distribute it.

NOTE: Adobe Acrobat/Reader (version 4 or later) must of course be installed on your PC.

Click here to read (in PDF-format) the

Brochure
Tutorials:

Planning your context sensitive online help project
Understanding AcosHelp
Making your first AcosHelp CAF-file
Inserting object references
Making an AcosHelp updated CAF-file
Making an AcosHelp translation CAF-file
Making an AcosHelp updated translation CAF-file
Tips for advanced use
Semi-automatic updating of 'AcosHelp Manager' and 'AcosHelp Handler'

Complete detailed manual

To save the PDF-file on your computer for print-out right-click the link and select "Save destination as...".

Easy to work with

PRC AcosHelp is extremely fast and easy to work with. When the PDF-file has been generated it typically takes the technical communicator less than a minute to generate the help-file. Afterwards – dependent of the complexity – it takes from a few minutes to a few hours to enter the connections between the objects and the related help text in order to establish the final context sensitive help.

PRC AcosHelp is equally easy for the programmers.

Translations are most often handled in a few minutes.

Updates of the source language text as well as translations are also most often handled in a few minutes because the connections between the objects and the related help text is transferred from the old version.

Bug policy

It is a firm PRC policy to deliver bug-free software as far as possible. Therefore: if you experience any problems with AcosHelp, please don't hesitate to contact PRC by clicking one on the red 'Contact PRC' links in the left side of most pages of this website and send us a message about the problem. We will then solve the problem a.s.a.p. and notify you when the solution is ready.

AcosHelp is a trademark of PRC, Denmark. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used in this website are the property of their respective owners. For inquiries please contact the trademark owners.

Context sensitive online help with PDF-files!