Features

Software becomes increasingly complex and a reliable tool that helps creating documentation and keeping it up-to-date is crucial for success. When you take great care about developing the best possible product, you will also want your tools to produce best possible results. From Online Help to print documents, Doc-O-Matic produces just about any documentation for end users as well as team members.

Create documentation of any kind and size with Doc-O-Matic effortlessly. From PDF booklets to manuals with thousands of pages, from application Help projects with less than 20 topics to library documentation containing tens of thousands of symbols, Doc-O-Matic makes it easy to stay on top of your projects.

Doc-O-Matic makes it possible to produce and distribute your documentation in highly accessible formats from only a single source. Let Doc-O-Matic help you get the documentation task done quickly, reliably, accurately and effortlessly.

Doc-O-Matic Facts

Using Doc-O-Matic brings you the following advantages:

• Your documentation is always up-to-date.
• Doc-O-Matic supports the C/C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, IDL, Java, ASPX, JSP, JavaScript, Matlab and PHP programming languages.
• Doc-O-Matic adopts to your way of documenting source code and supports XML Doc and JavaDoc.
• Using Doc-O-Matic you can author both your source documentation and your application Help.
• Doc-O-Matic produces highly accessible output tailored to your needs.
• Doc-O-Matic comes with predefined templates for widely used documentation standards such as Visual Studio and MSDN documentation or Delphi VCL Help.
• Doc-O-Matic helps you manage your source code by providing a class hierarchy visualization tool, a flexible report feature and a graphical documentation QA tool.
• Doc-O-Matic produces source documentation and application Help in PDF, HTML Help, Help 2, Help 3, Web Help/browser based HTML, Windows Help and XML.
• Doc-O-Matic is a single source documentation tool.
• Doc-O-Matic is a stand alone Windows application with an easy-to-use user interface.
• Doc-O-Matic comes with a command line compiler, Doc-O-Matic can be integrated into your automatic build process easily.

Doc-O-Matic is used in all kinds of industries from semiconductor manufacturers to game development companies. Read more in the What Users say section.

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The Content Manager is the main working area for documentation management, hierarchy configuration and Help authoring.

For source projects it displays all namespaces (packages), modules, classes, members, variables, enums, structs, functions and files in a well structured topic hierarchy. The different icons represent different symbol types and topic states. The check boxes next to each topic provide control over whether a topic should be available in the output. The automatic topic hierarchy is highly customizable, with options for folders for symbols in modules, namespaces and extended member folders. Doc-O-Matic also provides features for sorting symbols and topics. In addition all topics can be moved manually by drag and drop.

The Editor displays and edits topics. It provides common word processing power including lists, tables, live spell checking and supports advanced features for text reuse like snippets. When writing source code documentation, Doc-O-Matic reads and writes native comments (those that don't need tags), XML Doc and JavaDoc.

The Help authoring features include topics, sections, snippets, labels, links, images, index, flags and much much more. Each output configuration - a project can have any number of configurations - defines its own set of topics, which sections to export and in which order. That way different output can be produced in same project just by switching settings.

The QA view helps identifying areas in the documentation which need work. It helps getting a quick impression of how complete the documentation is, even in very big projects. During output generation Doc-O-Matic can issue warnings for missing documentation in multiple levels of detail.

Class hierarchies are automatically created during output generation and can be used in your documentation. Doc-O-Matic creates class hierarchies for the entire project, for each module in the documentation and for each individual class in the project.

Reports are a very versatile way to generate additional content. This includes simple and multi-item glossaries, topic listings, QA related information. Reports provide a powerful interface to select a group of topics based on a set of criteria and print tables filled with properties of those topics - such as the title or a specific section.

The Project Manager manages source, topic and output files, include paths and image paths, configurations, project databases and modules. It also acts as an interface to the module definitions. Modules make it possible to divide a project into several parts and have Doc-O-Matic create a separate topic hierarchy for each part.

Every aspect of input processing, editing and output generation in Doc-O-Matic is extremely customizable. The settings view provides an interface to all the different options both for general project settings as well as output configuration depended settings. Each project can contain an unlimited number of output configurations which define the look and feel as well as features of the generated output. The settings view lists all settings pages in a hierarchical tree.