Tools for creating a help file

[Pete]

Folks,
Still playing around with different formats for this.

One possible format is the one used by the Datagrid reference manual.  It's
a pdf file including a navigation pane on the left with
expandable/collapsible entries; clicking on an entry goes directly to the
associated page.  Pretty sure this is a built in feature of pdf files, but
wondering if there is a way to create that type of format from a standard
word processing program as opposed to purchasing Acrobat.

Thanks,
Pete

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recommendation.  I'll definitely
> take a look.
> Pete
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> You should look at ScreenSteps:
>>
>> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/
>>
>> In addition to being a very good way to prepare documentation, the tool
>> was created with LiveCode.
>>
>> It can export to Word, PDF, and HTML. With PDF you can use a LiveCode
>> player object and set the filename of the player to the path to the PDF,
>> and then set the currenttime of the player to go forward and backward
>> through the pages.
>>
>>
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