DocBook2AppleHelp creates appealing help pages for the Mac from XML-based DocBook format. You can focus on the creation of your help content. DocBook2AppleHelp automatically takes care of the familiar look and feel of Apple help pages. And in addition to the online help, you get a printable manual in PDF format.

Combine the strengths of DocBook with AppleHelp

DocBook is THE modern format for demanding documents, esp. for technical documentation. Because it is based on XML, you can create any output format from DocBook. For example, PDF and HTML are immediately available. Hence, you generate a printable manual and an online help from a single document.

The leading Mac applications come all without printed manuals, relying fully on the build-in Apple Help. Because paper can no longer compete with the benefits of Apple Help system: nowadays information must be available by advanced search algorithms, topics are linked together and supplemented by current information from websites.

With DocBook2AppleHelp, you create from DocBook a further output format in addition to PDF and HTML: professional Apple help pages with the following characteristics

•     familiar Mac layout
•     common structure and function
•     links between related topics
•     search by keywords
•     full-text search
•     alphabetical index
•     glossary

You can use your favorite editor to edit the XML data. The screenshot shows only two examples of the variety of available editors: on the right the classic XML editor Komodo Edit and on left the WYSIWYG editor XMLMind.