1. Building Help Systems on a
Shoestring Budget with
Search Maker Pro
2008 STC India Conference
Sangeeta Alam
Selvakumar T S
Cadence Design Systems

2. Flow Chart of Building Help Systems
Create search page
Create
Convert documents to PDF
Convert documents to PDF
Using PDF995
Using PDF995 Using
Using
Search Maker PRO
Search Maker PRO
Create a Master HTML page
Create a Master HTML page Remove the
Remove the
containing links of all files
containing links all files <!-- saved from
url=(0014)about:internet -->
url=(0014)about:internet -->
Using NVU
Using from search.html page.
from search.html page.
From Source File
From Source File
Create a Template file for
Create a Template file for
Search Page with
Search Maker Pro text
Search Maker Pro text
Marker
Marker Link the search page with
Link the search page with
<!--SMP-->
<!--SMP--> Master HTML page
Master HTML
Using NVU
Using NVU
Using NVU
Using NVU

3. Output
MASTER
HTML
PAGE
RESULT
PAGE
SEARCH
PAGE

4. Software Used
 Search Maker Pro
Creates a single HTML file that is a fully featured search engine for your website or
CD/DVD. Simply place this file on your site to provide full search facilities for your
visitors - in seconds!
 http://www.searchmakerpro.com/
 NVU
Open source web authoring system with WYSIWYG and HTML modes and site
manangement features derived from Netscape Composer. Designed for Linux,
Windows , ...
 http://net2.com/nvu/
 PDF 995
Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents
in the popular PDF file format.
 http://www.pdf995.com/