HelpMaker v9

Helpmaker is a RTF-based, page-layout Help Authoring tool. It generates WinHelp, HTML_Help, Website-Help and PDF.

It is freeware for non-commercial usage.

It’s easy in use. You don’t need any special skills to work with it. Just create help text, compile it and you will get ready help file.
You can make whole help files using HelpMaker without any other programs. Helpmaker has own text editor with a large number of available functions so you shouldn’t setup special software like Microsoft Word or etc.

You can make whole help files using HelpMaker without any other programs. Helpmaker has own text editor with a large number of available functions so you shouldn’t setup special software like Microsoft Word or etc.

Text editor features:
  • Font Formatting
  • Paragraph Formatting
  • Bullets and Numbering
  • Tab Spacing
  • Change Case
  • Various Styles (Bold, Italic, Underline)
  • Alignment Styles (Left, Center, Right)
  • Insert Page Break
  • Insert Date, Time and Date/Time
  • Insert Picture
  • Insert Hyperlink
  • Insert OLE Object
  • Insert Drawing Object
  • Spelling (with Auto-spell)
If you have earlier created help files or text documents you can easily import information from them into Helpmaker. It supports import for WinHelp files (*.hlp, *.hpj), Word, RTF, HTML and Text files.