A small sample Customer List
3M
Aargus Corp.
Achilles USA, Inc.
Algotex srl.
Amity Software Ltd
Analog Serv', Inc.
Apolloware, Inc.
Applied Research- Lab
Astra Petroleum
Autosoft Pty Ltd
Avery Berkel
Baan Deutschland GmbH
Banca Popolare di- Verona
BBC Television
BIOSEB
BP
BT
BUPA
Bell Computing
Biomet Inc.
Brooks Associates
Bull AB
Cellnet
CISCO CS&RS Pte Ltd
CNC Simulation Systems Ltd
Cable & Wireless
Capital Radio Plc
Cartemps U.S.A.
Castrol Intn'l
Century Life
Cimserve Ltd
Compco, Inc
Crown Agents Ltd
Customs I.T. Centre
Digiframe
ERG Telecomm Pty
Essex C' Council
European Software- Institute
FORS Institute
FedEx
Fort Worth Acdmy'
Global Services S.A.
Golden Eagle Ins.
Government of -Gibraltar
Howarth Timber Grp
IBM UK Ltd
ICS Comm'
Inland Revenue
JETCAM Intn'l
LabLogic Ltd
Lloyds of London
Logica srl
London Guildhall
London Intelligence -Unit
Ministry Of Defence
Motorola
MYOB
NSW Dept of -Mineral Resources
NASA
National Hospital -Neurology
Naval Bases & -Supply Agency
Nokia
North Surrey Water
North West Water
Novell (Europe)
Oregon State -University
Rabobank
RS Engineering
Sicon Consulting
Sikorsky Aircraft
SmartObjects Ltd
South Western -Electricity Plc
St. James Hospital
Television -Education Network
Texas Transport'n -Institute
The Kelly Group
The Principle Group
The Royal College -Of Surgeons
The Seattle Times
Toyoce Corporation
Transport Canada
US EPA
University College -Stockton
University Of -Dundee
University Of -Glasgow
University of -California (IE)
University of East -London ES&M
University of -Plymouth
University of -Southampton
University of -Victoria
Uppsala University
US Army
US Navy
| | Why
Choose DotHLP/DotCHM?
There are many Help Generators on the market but none are quite like
DotHLP. DotHLP is the only tool to use central database storage, bringing you the
flexibility of a Word Processor with the Power of a database. DotHLP
Professional comes with an integrated Decompiler which allows you to
decompile any .HLP file and import it into DotHLP. You can convert your existing Project
into an Html Web site complete with gif conversion of bitmaps and image
map conversion of shg files. But the main reason you may want to choose DotHLP though, is
that your learning curve is going to be tiny! With DotHLP you are off and running straight
away. If you use Visual Basic, Delphi or C++ Builder you'll instantly recognize how to
integrate context sensitive help into your applications. DotHLP doesn't try and do exactly what all the others have done. What we have done is
successfully target the developer who wants to write a help file as quickly as
possible with the minimum investment of time and money. There is
a Help Generator out there that will suit everybody's needs, I hope DotHLP suits yours.
You can download DotHLP right NOW and try it for yourself. Support
We are committed to DotHLP. Our support is second to
none, try us! Send us a test email message or post a question on our newsgroups and see what kind of
response you get!
Reviews
DotHLP has received excellent reviews in the Delphi Informant, ZDNet, Developers
Review and the Borland User Group magazine. Click here
to download the Adobe PDF file review from the Developers Review. "DotCHM is a fully fledged HLP and CHM help file generator. It covers all features of HLP programs - popups, filters, graphics, and much much more. It has several levels of design so the user can have less features visible and let the program finish the details, to the full power of compiling to different OSs. Excellent program"
Yipee Review, July-2000 | Software
Paradise rating:  | "A Quick Tour lets you instantly create your first project, and the mostly WYSIWYG
entry helps users to create effective Help systems with ease."
John C.A. DeKeles, Technical Director
ZDNet AnchorDesk, Oct 1998 |
"DotHLP is a full-featured, integrated Help generation system written entirely in
Delphi. It's easy to use and remarkably affordable. With the exception of actually having
to write the Help text, DotHLP takes the sting out of having to produce an application's
Help file."Dr. Cary Jensin
Delphi Informant, May 1998 |
"Conclusions
Overall, I was very impressed. DotHLP is a very professional package, well presented, with
clear instructions and lots of really nice touches. A lot of thought has gone into making
everything as easy to use as possible. The product is not specific to any particular
development environment or language,
but does include features which will be of use to Delphi component developers. For the
price it’s very good value and I’d have no hesitation in recommending it for
creating new Help projects."
Chris Frizelle
Developers Review, Oct 1997 |
Auric Visions and Microsoft promote DotCHM
Auric Visions has been invited to become a member of the Microsoft
HtmlHelp ISV Program and the Help authoring Guru, Paul O'Rear had this
to say about DotCHM:
"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
Testimonials
DotHLP is one of those products that you either love it or you
hate it. Developers with database backgrounds tend to take to DotHLP like a duck to water,
but our customers are varied and International. One thing they all have in common is that
their time is precious, so they don't want to learn more than they have to, which is why
they choose DotHLP, low learning curve, high productivity. Here are a small selection of
some comments our customers have made to us.
- 2 days ago I wrote -
I have played with your software for about 20 mins and I am already converted.
I am fed up
with RoboHelp constantly hanging even on a PIII with 128MB and it's shabby handling of
inserting images. you are a true winning on both counts so far. In the last 20 mins from
new I have got further on my help file than I have all afternoon in RoboHelp. Keep up the
good work, I will spend a little more time on this and then I think i'll buy a copy. - Yesterday I bought a copy
- Today my help file is done. I have added context help throughout my project for a
fraction of the cost to use RoboHelp and it was really easy, even the contents sections in
Win95 help. Your product is superb! Many thanks
Tony Gorham
Programmer | Realist | Gadget Freak |
"Thanks for all your help. It's nice to be able to get some REAL support - unlike the "big guys" who's support is pretty much non-existent or you have to pay almost as much as the product to report a program bug!"
Ben Charron
System Partners International |
"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 |
"Excellent customer service and a super product"
Martin Crilly
BT (British Telecom) |
" This is a great looking product.
I am loving it!!! What it took me
almost a day to do when I was learning how to create help files by hand,
I did in about 2 minutes with DOTHLP."
Ian Scott
Metrologic Instruments. |
"I'm impressed with how easy your software is to use. It makes creating a
help file so simple and quick. Thanks for such a great product!"
Thomas Ashcraft
Design Engineer, Pedco, Inc. |
"Thanks Gary! I had already fixed my problems...but really appreciate your hard work and timely follow through--your ongoing support for folks like me just affirms why we purchased your product. The software can be top notch, but if the tech support isn't there, the software is NO GOOD! Thanks to you, we will continue to use Dot .HLP well into the future.
Keep up the great work!
Please pass this along to your supervisor, (s)he needs to be reminded again what kind of asset you really are.
Gina Morhain
Acceptance Insurance Company | I downloaded both your trial package and
Robohelp's trial to see which one I wanted and found yours to be more hand-tailored for my style. Not to mention that yours is priced A LOT more reasonable. All I needed was a simple, down-and-dirty, easy-to-use package to build average-sized help files and DotHelp is perfect for that.
Part of that result was that I needed a package to reverse-engineer
a help file so I may add the help for the new upgrades I've done to the software. The help file was created in RoboHelp. DotHelp successfully decompiled and recompiled it and RoboHelp didn't. You would think RoboHelp would be able to decompile it's own help file! I even recompiled DotHelp's source and recompiled it using Visual Studio's WinHelp and it worked! Thank you for a great product that saved me hours of work!
Jeff Adams
Senior Software Architect
Holland Computers, Inc. | "In any case your software is excellent, or, to put it in different words
'even
I can use it'"
Amos Attar
CharacTell Ltd | "Your Flagship may be DotHlp but your Mainstay is support!"
Your promptness has saved the day!
Dick Fluegel PRO_IRB | "Thanks for all your help. I have to say I'm majorly impressed by your speed and courtesy, not to mention the fact that you've provided the fix IMMEDIATELY rather than making me wait till the next release is due.
Your level of service certainly more than lives up to your claims on your web site. Count me a very happy customer."
Peter Stubbs | "Autosoft is a software developer and it offers
support like you do to its
clients. I would just like to say Gary 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 the great support - this kind of
efficiency is difficult to
find in this day and age."
Alistair Jack | "I would like to thank you for the fast response
in solving our problem. The replacement disks you sent installed without any problems.
Your quick
response to our problem has enabled us to keep on track in completing our
help system by Jan 1 2000."
Mahmood Aslam, Avery Berkel
DotCHM Enterprise owner | "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 an evaluation 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 | "I've got to tell you, working in customer support
/ service myself, that
historically I've been an exceptionally demanding customer. Never in my 10+
years in the business have I experienced anything like the support you've
offered for someone who's downloaded a demo from a web site. It's
sensational!
Even if your product were second rate (which has not been my experience) the way you
support it is second to none in the industry, and this by itself is
enough to prompt me to purchase dotHLP. I've submitted the paper work at
work, and we should be purchasing it next week. I want to thank you again
for taking the time to make me feel like my business is important to you,
even though we're a tiny little non-profit organization."
Andrew Sutton | | 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 | "Your program is a really nifty tool in my
programming arsenal, but your support exceeds all expectations. I was singing DotHLP's
praises in the comp.programming newsgroup the other day."
Chris Randle | "I've testing quite a few help generators lately
in an effort to find one
that could get the job done without my having to become a help-guru. Most
fail miserably and many are unable to support relatively basic help
features.
I think your approach is head and shoulders above the pack. I also like how
you handled the support side of things."
Steve Bartley | "Thanks for the rapid response. Your program is
super, and excellent
support multiplies it's value and appeal. It's a winning combo!"
Greg Ihnen
Sea-Land Pacific | "Gary, many thanks for your help on the problems
(all of our own making, I must add) we've had over the last few days - your support is
excellent!"
Peter Jetson
ASP Microcomputers | "I have now been using DotHlp for about 8 hours
and I must say it's brilliant.
It's so easy to learn and create a help file quickly. I can't believe I used
to do it manually!
It also did a very good job of importing my previous help file (created
manually using word 6.0)"
Paul Emmerson
Seproft Ltd | "I found you on a Access database newsgroup and
downloaded the demo system. I have been developing an application for 4 years and when
ever I looked at on-line help I found it was incredibly difficult to use and all too hard.
I was able to get a help system up and running in about 5 minutes using your software.
It's the way it should be. Excellent product!"
Grahame Day,
Samford Software |
"I have tried almost all of the help systems out
there, and found DotHLP to be the easiest to use by far. Not to mention that the
price/performance ratio is great."
Thor Ivar Ekle,
Novasoft, author of SpamKiller |
"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. |
| "DotHLP is better and certainly FAR easier to use
than programs costing many times more. I have found it very stable. The compilation time
is fast and the features exactly what is needed. Well done." Camy
Maertens
Laughing Gravy Ltd |
"Just a note to say thanks for the new version,
and for a great product. It is the best authoring tool I have used, and I have used
several."
Pete Vickers |
"On the whole it is a wonderful package. I had
never before undertaken a
Help file, and within three days I have completed two real applications
of about 40 pages each."Dan Rootham
Lexicon Software Ltd |
| "Firstly, thank your for an exceptional help file
editor. I have spent 3 days building a Help file for the imminent release of one of our
Internet search tools called Beeline and it is all but complete. Your product is easy to
learn (play with it for 10 - 20 mins and you are ready to run :-)) and is full of features
we need. The ability to create and implement mapped image file so easily has really given
my helpfile a professional touch (not bad for 3 days work..) I believe that we will
continue to use your product for all Help file creation." Mark
Hillsdon
Transcom Software Inc |
| "After using your downloadable test version I can
say: I have never before made help files so fast and easy. Nice priced product, too!" Ola Helge Fløene
Vestheim Kjøt og Data |
| "You wouldn't believe I used to write help files
from 'scratch' - your software has made it a complete sinch." Roy
Button (Access Developer)
ButtonWare Ltd |
| "I didn't know how easy it was to create help
files." Jason Harrington
Century Life |
| "With DotHLP I can save hours creating
sophisticated help systems and spend more time developing code." Barry Wood
Goldline Technology Ltd |
| " Keep up the good work with DotHLP32 - it is
brilliant." Peter Edwards
Biwater Properties Ltd |
Top Ten Best Selling Components and Tools
The August 1998 issue of Microsoft Developer Network Journal, page 10, shows
DotHLP as number 10 in the best selling components and tools in Europe. That's a
phenomenal achievement seeing as we were the only Help Authoring tool in the top ten and
we were beside names such as Apex, WISE, Sheridan and FarPoint. All your Help Authoring needs
We have add-ins to cater for all your needs, whether you create
HtmlHelp files, .CHM, or Windows CE files, we have an add-in that will enable you to
create a help file simply and easily. If you want us to keep you updated click here. Still not convinced?
All products sold directly from Auric Visions come with an unconditional 100% 60 day money
back guarantee. You can download and try DotHLP and then if you feel it's for you, buy it
safely under the umbrella of our 60 day guarantee. Click here to purchase DotHLP
securely on our secure commerce server. Some of the Benefits of DotHLP:- - New Project Wizard generates a fully functional help file in One Minute! All you have to
do is fill in the help text.
- DotHLP is Intuitive! Everything has been designed with easy of use in mind, no
experience required!
- WYSIWYG environment.
- RAD. Designed specifically for component based development environments where
integrating context sensitive help used to be a problem, before DotHLP.
- Jump Integrity™. When you change a jump reference in DotHLP, all references to that
jump are automatically updated, maintaining the integrity of your jumps.
- De-Compile any HLP file and Import it into DotHLP.
- Export your Project into a full blown Html Web Site complete with conversion of graphics
and links.
- Single Source - RTF-HLP-HTML.
- Variables: Unique to DotHLP you can insert variables into your help text and assign
different values to these when you compile, enabling you to make changes to things like
copyright notices and phone numbers with one change.
- Multiple Views. You can see an outline of all your Topics, switch into Max help for
complete WYSIWYG or work in the Contents view, giving maximum flexibility.
- The power of a Database with the flexibility of a Word Processor are combined to bring
you the best of both worlds.
- Font consistency through the Project Font Registry ensures your end-user sees what you
intended.
- Completely Integrated environment.
Click here to Buy DotHLP now,
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Click here for a more complete set of features.
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