Developing DITA-based Help for Existing Help Environments

This topic introduces solutions for moving your DITA source content into one of several existing help run-time environments.

If your company delivers Help information to a commonly used help viewer or run-time help environment, you have options for authoring content in DITA and for transforming that content into ready-to-run help deliverables.

Figure 1. DITA Source to Existing Help Environments

The following topics in this section of the Best Practices Guide explain how to use one or more of these plug-ins or transform applications to generate Help from DITA sources.

Help Environment Notes
Adobe AirHelp Plug-in The AirHelp plug-in does ...
CSHelp Plug-in The CSHelp plug-in does ...
IBM EclipseHelp Plug-in The EclipseHelp plug-in does ...
Microsoft HTMLHelp Plug-in The HTMLHelp plug-in does ...
PTC PTCHelp Application The PTCHelp plug-in does ...
HyperWrite WinAnt Help Outputs WinAnt generates multiple Help outputs ...