Abstract
Recently, Microsoft Corp. launched Version 2 of its Multimedia
Viewer Publishing Toolkit (MVPT), thereby facilitating the low-cost
authoring of hypermedia systems for the Windows graphical user interface
(GUI) on personal computers (PCs). Using these tools, Microsoft have
produced a successful series of CD-ROM based hypermedia systems
including the Encarta encyclopaedia and the Bookshelf writer's
reference. Their Cinemania product consists of one Multimedia Viewer
data file (CINMANIA.MVB) containing 33,535 topics and being 139 MByte in
size. The MVPT has the following advantages: it is cheap to buy at
around £300, produces fast and professional results, and makes
good use of the Windows GUI entirely without programming. Microsoft
Windows can be criticised as a closed system tied to proprietary
standards, but it nevertheless has proved itself in the marketplace. Our
research has shown that it is a time-consuming but uncomplicated task to
author large hypermedia documents using both the Windows Help Compiler
and the MVPT
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