Additional Recommended Utilities

There are several other utilities that you may find useful in developing documentation projects. These utilities are all free.

• 7-Zip - allows for creation of compressed archives and extraction of files from these archives.

• FileZilla - is an ftp utility for uploading and downloading files to/from a server.

• GIMP - is an image editing utility for working with document images.

• grepWin - is a search utility that allows searching of phrases in multiple text files. grepWin can search HTML or script files for key strings, and even supports mass find and replace in multiple files. It is very useful if you ever need to change things like folder paths in your files.

• LinkChecker - can be used to validate all links in your documents and should be used before publishing a document to ensure that all links in the document are valid.

As with all software recommendations, if you have another tool that you you are more comfortable with that performs similar functions, feel free to use that instead.