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Structure of the Output Formats

HTML Help Systems

All HTML Help systems come with special pages such as welcome page, a table of contents page, and an index page. For each topic that is exported one page is created. HTML Help and Help 2 also include a table of contents, an index, and a search tab for full text search.
Folder (Contents Entries) appear in the table of contents only. Doc-O-Matic automatically creates grouping entries for each type of symbol to arrange symbol topics (for example Symbol Reference, Classes, Functions).
When you use HTML files as external source (for example Word documents or Visio charts saved as HTML), they are added as topics to your HTML output.
Some sections (for example Body Source Code, Additional Information, See Also and the Navigation and Group Information Section) can be shown on separate pages. Links are automatically created from topics to these additional pages. All sections can be formatted as pop-up windows and they can be expanded.
You can show several topics on one page. For details, see Formatting Topic Pages.

Windows Output

Windows Help includes a table of contents, an index and a find page. Separate pages are created for a welcome page and for each topic that is exported.
Folder (Contents Entries) appear in the table of contents and in the index only. In the TOC of Windows Help it is not possible to create links from "books" to content pages. Only leaves can be linked to the content. For this reason group topics appear as book and as linked leave entry, followed by all subtopics in that group. Use contents entries to group your topics, if you do not want to create additional "books".
Doc-O-Matic automatically creates grouping entries for each type of symbol to arrange symbol topics (for example Symbol Reference, Classes, Functions).
Some sections of topics (for example Body Source Code, Additional Information and Navigation Information) appear on separate pages. The See Also section and the Class Hierarchy appear in a pop-up window. Links are automatically created from topics to these additional pages.

PDF Document

You can print your PDF document or use it as Online Help. The online version includes a separate bookmarks window, in which the table of contents appears.
Topic titles are used as headings in PDF documents; they are numbered automatically. Folder (Contents Entries) do only appear as headings.
You can print the PDF Document double-sided with swapped header and footer information and page margins or you can print it one-sided.
Links are printed as page references.
PDF documents include special pages like title pages, table of contents and index pages
Doc-O-Matic automatically creates grouping entries for each type of symbol to arrange symbol topics (for example Symbol Reference, Classes, Functions).
All sections of a topic are part of the respective topic.

PDF settings apply to: Doc-O-Matic Professional and Doc-O-Matic for Authoring