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Special Offer

Our DotCHM Site Licence is currently on offer for only $956. Four licences of DotCHM will cost you $956 so if your company requires four or more licences why not purchase a DotCHM Site Licence which entitles you to an unlimited number of copies of DotCHM within your site.

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Our products are as follows: -

DotHLP - US$169
DotHLP creates WinHelp files only.

DotCHM - US$239
DotCHM creates both WinHelp and HtmlHelp files.

DotCHM Enterprise - US$499
DotCHM Enterprise does everything that DotCHM does but also includes the following two features, PocketPC support and the Translation Assistant (our globalisation tool). 

DotCHM Site Licence - US$956
The DotCHM site licence has been devised to provide you with the most flexible licencing option and the best value for your company. The site licence means you can install an unlimited number of copies of DotCHM within your site.

Two of our products are named after the file extensions that they produce, .HLP and .CHM. If you want to create Compressed HtmlHelp Files, i.e. the latest Microsoft Standard for Windows 98 and 2000, then you need DotCHM. This will also create WinHelp files which will work in Windows3.1, 95, 98 and 2000, so with DotCHM you get the best of both worlds. If you only need to create WinHelp files then DotHLP is your best choice.

Product HtmlHelp WinHelp
32bit
WinHelp
16bit
Price
US$
DotHLP No Yes Yes $169
DotCHM Yes Yes Yes $239
DotCHM Enterprise Yes Yes Yes $499
DotCHM Site Licence Yes Yes Yes $956
Shipping         $25


Register now, securely on-line, and have your copy in a few minutes
Click here to register your copy of DotHLP or DotCHM. In a few minutes you'll be experiencing how to create help files the easy way.

What do you get when you Register?
You will immediately receive a link where you can download and begin creating your own help files. Shortly afterwards you will receive your personalized registration details and receipt.

When you purchase one of our products you enter into a relationship with a company that is 100% dedicated to supporting you throughout your whole help development cycle, not just up to the sale. How many times have you contacted a company for support, waited days for a reply and when it finally came, the answer was so poor that you wish you hadn't bothered? Well, we'll let our customers tell you about the quality of the support you will receive from us:

"Autosoft is a software developer and it offers support like you do to its clients. I would just like to say that the support from you would have to be the best I have seen. Anytime I have had a problem you have bent over backwards to fix it. I would just like to let you know it is appreciated. Thanks a lot, regards"
- Ron Mitchell - Autosoft Pty Ltd
"Thanks again for all your super prompt responses to my support emails! You folks really look after your user base well."
- Scott Long - GM, Canada

Do you really need a Help Authoring Tool like DotCHM?
There are other options, for example you could write your help file in rtf/html and JavaScript and learn about the syntax, and proprietary codes needed to create indexes, popups etc, but that really is painful. One of our customers did just that until he found DotHLP:-

"I just wanted to say that while I do write a lot of programs in various Window languages, most of them have suffered for lack of any help file. The reason being that help files were such a big pain to write in the older methods. When I got a copy of you're program it only took me about 10 minutes to realize that it was exactly what I needed. It allows me to concentrate on getting the info I need to into help file format but without hassle of the arcane rtf formatting necessary to get it compiled. Thank you very much for developing that program...it'll certainly be a lifesaver for me. I've already almost completed a pretty comprehensive help system for an application I'm nearly done working on."
- Spence Erikson

What about one of the more expensive Help Tools?
DotCHM does not do everything and does not aim to please everybody. If you're looking for a tool where you can keep a copy of the manual in the bathroom to catch up on some study time or if you want to string together multiple macros to create some special effect on the menu bar then forget it, DotCHM is not for you. There are plenty of other tools out there that will suit you just fine. However, if you're short on time and you want to create a professional help file in the quickest possible time and with the smallest learning curve in the industry then you are very welcome here, you're in the right place.

This message was copied from our support newsgroup!
"I just sent my check for registration of the DotHlp program. I have been looking at help authoring tools for some time now and I found yours extremely intuitive and just what I needed. Thanks.

>Thank you very much. Would you mind if I used this as a quote on our web
>site?

Not at all. As a registered user of both ForeHelp and RoboHelp (both fine products) I was dreading writing another help file. Not that there is anything wrong with either of these or the countless others I have tried. But, as I write help files infrequently there always seemed to be a large relearning curve each time I started a new help project. Well NOT any
more."

- Bill Urbanovsky

(Wherever you look on our site you'll see that all our claims are backed by quotes from our customers. We feel that they are the best spokespeople for our products, as they are the ones who use them day in day out in the real world.)

Is it really going to be that easy for me to Create help files?
Absolutely. You will be able to create a fully working help file in One Minute! Then all you have to do is type in the help text. But don't just take our word for it:-

"I recently reviewed Auric Visions' DotCHM for the Microsoft and Help University HTML Help Business Development Program and found the product very easy to work with and Gary Handley's responses to my questions to be excellent. DotCHM succeeds in its aim of a visual approach to help authoring and quick turn-around of an HTML Help help system. Take their One Minute Challenge and see for yourself!"
- Paul A. O'Rear - Sageline Software, Microsoft MVP

You're in Good Company
Our help tools are being used right now to create help files simply and easily across the globe, saving thousands of customers from the stress and unnecessary steep learning curves imposed by every other product out there. Our customers range from the independent developer to household names like NASA, the US Army and Navy, Novell, Motorola and IBM. We've doubled in size every year for the past three years and our commitment to the future of our products and your service has never been stronger.

Does ease of use = lack of features?
No, DotCHM has two modes, Beginner and Advanced. You start off in Beginner mode and when you're ready to, or if you ever need to, you can simply turn on Advanced mode to see a huge array of features that are presented in the same visual, easy to use manner that you're used to. We've added over 150 new features since the first version, but you wouldn't think it to look at the uncluttered interface. That's because a lot of features are working in the background automatically for you. You can change the behavior of these in "Preferences" or activate them through Advanced mode. We are very conscious of not letting "feature-bloat" compromise the fundamental principles of ease-of-use and productivity, which are the reasons DotHLP and DotCHM have become the phenomenal success they are today.

So how much will it save me?
If you've never written a help file before then 5 minutes after using DotHLP or DotCHM you'll wonder what all the fuss was about. We've made it so simple. If you're coming from another product that forces you up a steep learning curve and you're still not productive with it then you'll really appreciate how much you've saved! Save your most precious resource, your time, so you can concentrate on what you're good at. And at a price that's only a third of the price that are two nearest rivals are charging, DotCHM presents superb value for money.

"Firstly may I just say that DotHelp is the best help file generator that I have ever seen and used. It has vastly cut down the amount of time it takes for me to generate the help files required for my companies products."
- Mark Turnbull - MavTech Software.

What if it doesn't suit my needs, do I get my money back?
You get a 60 day unconditional, full money back guarantee, no questions asked. If you have any problems in your first two months of creating help files you can get a complete refund, every penny back. You have nothing to loose, you can only benefit.

Register now, securely on-line, and have your copy in a few minutes
Click here to register your copy of DotHLP or DotCHM. In a few minutes you'll be experiencing how to create help files the easy way.

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support@AuricVisions.com or support@Windows-Help-Files.com
Last modified: 15 January 2003.