Upgrade your online documents and help systems now with the world's most powerful authoring tool. HDK has hundreds of features that will let you produce better results in less time. Plus HDK will save you thousands of dollars in on-going maintenance costs.

Create massive on-line help systems, web sites, CD-ROMs, intranets and much more with HDK .

HDK is a powerful, yet simple to use authoring tool for creating Web based information systems and Windows Help systems.

Designed specifically with the corporate user and professional technical writer in mind, HDK is both easy to use and at the same time offers an unequalled level of functionality.

For the corporate user: HDK's advanced document conversion system will automatically build large Web sites at the push of a button. Because HDK can be fully automated, it turns information owners into information publishers. Human Resources departments, Quality Assurance staff and Office Administrators can all create and maintain manuals on the intranet. And the IT Department can configure HDK to ensure that all documents created will adhere to a corporate look-&-feel and work on the company network.

For the technical writer: HDK is the only online authoring tool designed for creating and maintaining massive and sophisticated online documentation projects. HDK provides advanced project design and management features that allow you to publish online systems that are over 100,000 topics!

If you are a documentation professional embarking on a new project, or responsible for maintaining an existing project, you simply must use HDK.

HDK's unique database design, true single-sourcing, virtual libraries, project themes and project import, will literally save you weeks, maybe even months of work. You will produce the highest quality work and greatly reduce the cost of ownership. HDK is the only tool that will enable you to do your job the best!

Your HDK generated Help systems will not just be 'good enough' for the application, they'll outshine it! Your Intranet and web sites will not only be functional... they'll let you set new standards in design and performance!

HDK is totally integrated with Word for Windows and has two operating modes...

For simplest use, HDK can operate within Word for Windows as a powerful document conversion system. In this mode, the author simply uses Word to write the document then have HDK automatically convert that into the desired online format. This is particularly useful if you want to maintain the same document for both paper and online output.

In advanced mode, HDK operates an interactive editing tool with Word. As you write your document, you click on the various HDK buttons to define online functionality... say insert an animation here, or a link there. This authoring method gives you the greatest level of control over the functionality of the document and still lets you produce a printable document.

TRUE SINGLE SOURCING

HDK gives you the ability to seamlessly deliver your documentation system in any format from traditional paper manuals, to WinHelp, HTML, HTML-Help and Java enhanced HTML. That's one project, multiple output formats...all at the push of a button. From paper manuals to the Web, to WinHelp and back to paper in one automated process, nothing could be simpler.

And HDK does so much more than simply translate file formats. It uses it's powerful fuzzy-logic engine to enhance the document so that it is optimized for each medium... including indexing, navigation aides, cross references, style re-mapping and much more!

SOURCE FLOW MANAGER

HDK's unique approach to authoring makes the only solution for large systems. Virtual Media recognizes that the source material that goes to make up your online documents will come from a variety of specialized applications. That's why HDK is fully integrated with the de facto-standard MS Word and lets you use your preferred tools for graphics, spreadsheets, flowcharts, etc.

HDK is an online document designer and project manager. With HDK you simply pour your source materials into the HDK project and it does the rest.

When building an online document, it doesn't take long before you have thousands of text pages, graphic files, links, buttons and indexes. So HDK creates a database of these project elements and the relationships they have with each other. This way, HDK can automatically repair errors and greatly reduce the ongoing maintenance time for your online documents.

HDK is fully integrated with Word 2000, Word 97, and Word 95 and works with all versions of Windows

NO-BRAINER WEB & WINHELP CREATION

HDK has the most powerful Web creation engine available. At the push of a button, HDK will automatically convert your Word documents and manuals into fully operational Web sites and Help systems. It is so much more than a simple HTML filter for Word.

Plus HDK applies the same 'smarts' for WinHelp and HTML Help!

Just compare... HDK-converted documents include a tracking table of contents, auto-indexing, search engine, complex tables and graphics, style re-mapping, Java enhancements, link and reference mapping, advanced CSS and much, much more. We guarantee it's the best conversion engine you will find!

MORE CONTROL, MORE DEVICES... BETTER RESULTS

HDK is renown in the hypertext industry for giving the greatest level of control over the output of your online documentation. It's the chosen tool for professionals because HDK gives you the most flexibility in the design and the functionality for your online documents.

The list is almost endless... from virtual libraries to zoomable charts, from hot buttons to dynamic lists, from scrolling text to full video. HDK has an unrivalled list of navigation aides, visual devices and formatting controls so that you can produce HTML and WinHelp systems that are not only functional and effective, but they look great too!


Average Download Times
(Your download time may vary)
* 56K Modem - 59 minutes, 57 seconds.
* ISDN - 24 minutes, 58 seconds.
* T1 - 2 minutes, 4 seconds.