Guide is similar to a desktop publishing system; but rather than allowing you to create paper documents, it provides tools to create interactive, multi-dimensional electronic documents optimized for screen display.
Guide documents can be divided into frames, which are similar to pages in a paper document. Each frame is scrollable and can contain both text and graphic objects which are linked to provide pathways for readers. The size and position of documents can be set, and the document window style is fully configurable. Up to 32 documents can be open at once and viewed simultaneously.
The Guide author creates and links objects by selecting text, graphics, and sound, and assigning an object type to the selection. Guide's four object types (described later) support a wide variety of document structures and the integration of mixed media.
Any object can have a script, written in Guide's LOGiiX programming language, attached to it. Scripts allow Guide to perform a variety of functions based on user actions.