Using help sets

The JavaHelp format is mostly but not exclusively meant for usage with Java applications. From applications, help sets can be called and viewed directly as online help including context sensitive help features, index and full text search.

But there is more to do with the single result of helps sets produced with HelpExpert. Along with the help set HelpExpert automatically produces output to enable the help set to be viewed with nothing more a plain web browser.

To give you the complete documentation abilities, HelpExpert allows to create a PDF file from your documentation project in a single step. The PDF file contains the help set in the very same format making it distributable in addition as printable electronic or paper version.

This section describes those three common usage possibilities of help sets.