Developing DITA-based Help for Existing Help Environments

If your company delivers 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 DITA Help Technologies Guide explain how to use one or more of these plug-ins or transforms to generate Help from DITA sources.

• Arbortext Digital Media Publisher
• CSHelp Plug-in
• Eclipse_CSH Plug-in for Dynamic Context-Sensitive Help
• Eclipse Help
• Leximation AIR Help Plug-in
• Context-Sensitive HTML Help Using the The DITA Open Toolkit

• Arbortext Digital Media Publisher
  This topic provides an overview of how the Arbortext® Digital Media Publisher uses DITA to create Help systems and other types of online information systems.
• Leximation AIR Help Plug-in
  This topic introduces the concept of AIR Help and provides information about generating AIR Help from DITA.