Our reader applications use the power of the Microsoft HTML Application environment to provide a fast and friendly user interface. We can provide whatever navigation is best suited for the particular data or documents, whatever views of the content are required, including information displays that are close replicas of familiar printed layouts.
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This is our Manuals Machine reader, suitable for technical documentation, reference manuals, help desk instructions, FAQs, etc - it's one of our downloads that you can try out. Up to four levels of table-of-contents, can be displayed at any time in the frames on the left side, while the current topic is displayed at the right. There is also a book-like alpha index facility. The control panel at the bottom assists navigation through the indexes, and selection of alternative stylesheets for the main display. The default stylesheet presents the core content while others provide additional information such as author and change-control details. |
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This screenshot shows the reader part of a custom authoring tool that we developed for an airline. The document is a cargo operations manual and contains reference data for some 50 airports, all stored in a single XML file. Displays are replicas of the printed manual The navigator frame at upper right enables selection of one airport. The main body of the display presents information for the selected airport, presented as an exact replica of the printed manual - usually 4-6 pages per airport The frame at lower right is the control panel, for controlling the authoring process and for switching to different views of the data. |
Our readers for XML-based data and documentation are not restricted to the left-pane navigation model of Windows Help and Acrobat Reader. They can provide can provide whatever content selection and navigation that are best suited to the particular content, and are most useful and convenient to the users. This navigation can include:
The approach is equally applicable to: