Features Matrix

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The following table provides a side-by-side feature comparisons between the different editions of Tópico. The Personal Edition and Professional Edition include a license for the XStandard Pro editor. The Community Edition is free for personal or commercial use.

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Feature Free Personal Professional
Publish your web documents collections right on your desktop (1)
Tutorial - Reference
Edit your topic content through the XStandard Pro XHTML Editor (2)
Tutorials
Benefit from many time saving features for inserting content (2)
Tutorial
Easily edit and publish small multilingual collections (3)
Reference
Customize templates and stylesheets for unlimited possibilities (4)
Tutorial
Edit your collection structure visually through a simple tree view
Tutorial
Publish your collection online, on your intranet or on CD-ROM
Tutorial
Customize your publication's drop down menu (using the YUI script library)
Add breadcrumbs to your published pages
Reference
Add navigation (previous/next) links to your publication
Reference
Add links to sub topics (with short descriptions)
Reference
Include a site map on any published page
Tutorial - Reference
Reuse small content snippets throughout your publication
Tutorial
Send custom parameters to the template for the entire collection
Tutorial
Publish a News Feed with links to selected topics
Tutorial
Publish your collection as one merged document
Reference
Open individual topics with a stand alone xhtml editor window
Send custom parameters to templates for individual topics
Easily add a search page to your published collection (generates afull text search file)
Tutorial
Use different templates and stylesheets for individual topics
Tutorial
Generate content during the publishing process
Tutorial
Publish your collection to compiled HTML Help (free third paty download required, early alpha support)
Tutorial
Publish your collection to PDF with PrinceXML (free third paty download required, early alpha support)
Tutorial
Use a subset of the XInclude standard to reuse larger content chunks
Tutorial
Run external programs and scripts at different times during the publication process
Reference
Price Free    

(1) The Community Edition is free and include the XStandard Lite XHTML Editor component.

(2) The Personal Edition and Professional Edition include XStandard Pro XHTML Editor component.

(3) The user interface can be set to English or French and could easily be translated to other languages.

(4) Requires knowledge of the appropriate markup language and external editor(s).

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