One-click features & layout with Premium Pack 1.50

You can now create links to your help that directly open the keyword index and search panes. If you want, you can also simultaneously search for a keyword or search term included in the link, and jump to a specific topic in the help. You just need to create links that look like this:

index.html?search=red%20shift%20effect&redshiftintro.html

You can automatically integrate a free Disqus or IntenseDebate user comments account in your WebHelp. Users can then comment on the topics in your help in a separate comments list at the bottom of the topic. The comments are separate from your help and they are not lost when you re-publish and re-upload your help. (They are hosted on the comment provider's site.) Also, you don't need to worry about user names and logins. That is all handled by the provider, or users can log in with their social media accounts.

In addition to the "standard" skins for WebHelp for normal browsers and HTML Help for online help for Windows computers, the Premium Pack also includes a special iPad skin. This skin has a slick Apple-style layout and single-finger scrolling and is ideal for documentation accessed on the go with the Apple iPad.

Both the iPad skin and the standard skins are now compatible with Apple's new iOS5 mobile operating system update. The standard skins are fully navigable on the iPad and iPhone and they now also work with single-finger scrolling.

You no longer need to reconfigure new skins manually. The PP Updater utility transfers your customized settings from your old skins to new ones with a couple of clicks. Once you have configured a single skin you can use the same settings for different skins quickly and easily.

This feature transforms the simple JavaScript popups available in WebHelp and HTML Help, making them both more attractive and more useful. Instead of a static popup box displayed below the popup link, you get an automatically-sized popup that always fits in the browser viewport. Video popups automatically darken the rest of the current page to focus attention on the video.

• Draggable and resizable with an attractive 3D effect
• Stay in view when the page is scrolled
• Can contain formatted text, hyperlinks, images with hotspots
• Can contain videos (not draggable or resizable)
• Automatically displayed with scrollbars when necessary

This feature radically improves the usefulness of the keyword index in WebHelp. Just enter text in the Search field and press Enter or click on Search and the first highlighted hits will scroll into view. Press again to scroll to the next hits in the list. The search finds the text you enter anywhere in the index, not just at the beginning of each index entry.

The Permalink option displays a small dialog containing the selectable permalink to the topic when the user clicks on it. There are buttons to copy the permalink to the user's clipboard and to bookmark the topic in the user's browser.

Recent changes to some browsers have reduced the ability to print a whole topic directly from the topic frame. Selecting the Print button now generates a printable version of the topic with a print preview in an external window. This ensures that printing works in all browsers.

You can set up tables in your topics so that the user can sort them in your help by clicking in the header cells. You can sort on columns containing text, numbers, dates, currency and physical values like °C.

A drop-down topic navigation menu is generated automatically for headings with styles that you tag with special codes. Clicking on the menu entries scrolls down to the headings in your topic.

You can create hyperlinks to anchors inside expanding text blocks (toggles). The blocks are opened automatically when the user clicks on the link. This also works for anchors in nested toggles (toggles inside toggles) and anchors specified in URL links from other websites.

Clicking on the user feedback button in the topic header automatically generates an email to your support address with a full reference to the current help project and topic for your support staff.

Clicking on the Expand/Collapse button opens or closes all the expanding items in the current topic. The button is intelligent - if one or more items are open all are closed, otherwise they are opened.

A breadcrumb trail navigation box with a home button for the main topic in your project is automatically displayed above your topic header. This makes it much easier for the user to see where they are in the project.

You can also add a descriptive subtitle for your documentation that is displayed below the title in the navigation pane.