Creating Windows Help Files

Did you ever wonder how we created the CityDesk help system?

Of course, we used CityDesk itself!

A single CityDesk file creates three versions of the help system:

• Online Help for the Windows HTML Help Viewer. (Actually CityDesk produces all the input files for Microsoft's HTML Help Compiler)
• An HTML version that lives on our web page
• A Microsoft Word version of the tutorial (using Word's HTML file format option) which we use as input to Adobe Acrobat to produce a printable CityDesk tutorial in PDF format.

That way any changes made to one version automatically appear in all versions. If you're interested in doing the same thing and want to see how we did it, you can download a copy of the CityDesk site we use to generate all our help files (705KB Zip).

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