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Hi Carol,

The search should actually not look in Xplains at all, because they are not searchable. What version of Help+Manual and your WebHelp skin are you using?

Hi John, If you get a bug report prompt when this happens it would be very helpful if you could send it. That would make it possible to focus in on what is actually happening here. The problem, however, will be the number of slides in your project. Currently, an Xplain is a single HTML page and ALL ...

Hi John, I've never seen this and my own desktop setup is effectively the same as yours, but the other way round: I have a 4K primary monitor and a legacy secondary monitor, Windows 10. I use HelpXplain almost exclusively on the lower-resolution secondary monitor and never have problems. However, I ...

Hi Stefanie, You can't do this from within Help+Manual itself, but it's very easy to do on the XML topic files using any editor that can search and replace in multiple files, like the excellent free Notepad++. To do this, your project has to be saved in the uncompressed HMXP format, and if you are s...

just doing exec:c:\mbs\exewin1\helpdxf.exe and leaving the pa1.dxf alone? That is what the Execution Parameters: field is for. We also see that ewriter does not like embedded topics. What do you mean by "embedded topics"? Guess your forum page does not like my zip file. Uploading somethin...

We created a test from one of our projects and the Hyperlink to launch our program doesn't appear to be working. It works when the "Test" button is clicked. However, when run thru the eWriter Viewer (4.0.0.0 for windows 64 bit), clicking the link does nothing. See attached image File_Link...

Hi "321", It is rather surprising that you have been able to start external applications from your CHM files in Windows versions before 11 as well, as starting programs from CHM links has been completely blocked since Windows XP SP2. I am guessing that you are not starting the EXE of the p...

Tansy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:51 am I mean the text of topics.

The formatting of the content of your topics is controlled by the styles in your project and also by any manual formatting you apply in the HM editor.

Tansy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:58 pm Hi Tim, there's another question. How can I change the font size of the chapter text in the same template? Thank you in advance!

What do you mean by "chapter text"?

Hi Tansy, Instead of deleting things, which can cause errors, it is better to just prevent it from being displayed and activated. Edit the skin (not your project!) in Help+Manual and go down to Configuration > Publishing > WebHelp > Layout. In the code editor, locate this block of code further down:...

February brings a slew of updates for Help+Manual 9, HelpXplain and Help+Manual Translation Assistant. They include a wide range of improvements, some fixes for issues and the addition of even more extensive support for the SnipX image format of our upcoming SnipSVG screen capture and screenshot enh...

Hi Chris, The Title property is down in common properties... frequently we forget to change this before publishing, so we publish a Tutorials manual with the "Admin Guide" title on the titlepage etc. How can we set the title by either build tags or table of content selection? I would sugge...

Hi Dexter, There isn't any function to show you where specific styles are used, unfortunately. However, you can achieve this quite easily with any code editor (like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code, both of which are free and excellent) that can search through multiple files. Just search through all ...

Hi Laini, The easiest way to find things like this is to open the topic file or snippet file affected and then select the XML editor tab on the left of the main editor window. Click in the XML code to activate the XML editor, then press CTRL+F to search and you can then search for things like anchor...

Hi Tim, We're going to open up a separate forum section after the release. Until then, posting here is fine. Is there going to be a way to obfuscate. pixelate, or blur a small area of a screen shot? Or have I not yet searched for the right word to describe this? This is not only already there, it is...