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Hi, I have a decent computer with a metric crap-ton of RAM and trying to determine the best way to get my outputs to regenerate super quickly... e.g. during my scripts to rebuild all my help and PDF files I never see the CPUs rise about 20% for HELPMAN.EXE and never see the RAM utilisation or IO for...

One of the options in PDF creation (e.g. acrobat) is ability to prevent changes, but also ALLOW comments - this is great for getting documentation feedback while also protecting the PDFs content from being edited nefariously.

Currently this is not an option in PDF Options.

Pretty please?!

A big WOOT WOOT from me! :) Hi Svetlana, At the moment Help+Manual only supports one orientation for the entire PDF document. However, changing the orientation for individual topics and pages is planned for the next major version of Help+Manual. At the moment the only way to include a page with a di...

ah bother. I guess I just have to keep using the /O hmskin option, because despite it not supposed to do what it does, it certainly overrides the styles in my project's linked hmxr repository for my occasional need to generate 3rd party DOCX outputs with the 3rd party's colours and fonts, it works. ...

Cool thanks guys. Note I already use a global repository for my core editing and publishing tasks - but how would I script override which repository gets used if I want to publish re-styled DOCX versions for a partner/client? The reason I was using the HMSKIN option (even though that is really only ...

PS... back in v5 H+M definitely allows the editing of skin styles 2018-11-14_11-57-58.png in V6 you could see the styles but not edit them in v7 you cannot even see the list of styles This probably explains why the documentation states it can be done, and decisions must have been made to restrict it...

Best update the documentation then ;-) Or consider this a feature request. Often I create "official"documentation for a parent company as branded PDFs and online help, and rebranded, reformatted, editable DOCX versions for partners and clients where they can add more content and client-spe...

I think we might have crossed lines of communication here - I'm using the /O option as per the H+M documentation via a script to secondary publish Word Docs with alternative formatted styling for a 3rd party (who want documentation with their own branding colours etc) and I can confirm that if I hac...

As per the H+M documentation shown below I should be able to edit the styles in a hmskin file... but all the Write > Style tab option is always deactivated. Currently the only way for me to achieve this is a hack... rename the hmskin file as a .zip, unzip, manually edit the hmxp file in notepad++ Ho...

I see these compiler messages when publishing to DOCX Invalid character in string: XE "semantics semantics:glossary definition"C:\Dev\default\documents\H+M_Framework\...docx [View topic] Invalid character in string: XE "stemming stemming:glossary definition"C:\Dev\default\documen...

Dammit why didn't I think of trying that? lol. Thanks

Tim Green wrote:You can always get around Open File dialog filters in Windows by entering your own filter in the filename field. Just type in *.* and press enter and then you will see all files.

I often use SnagIt to annotate images and save a .snag file in the same location as teh final .png version. I'd like to be able to see the snag files in the open file dialog so that I can right click the .snag and edit it in snagit and then save the updated png in the location. Currently however the...

Hi, I often use the feature of including a project as a chapter within another project E.g. I have a separate glossary project which I include where needed. Also I have a global overview project which I use to create an all-in-one PDF for partner companies and support staff, which has each separate ...

Admittedly I have a very unorthodox default paragraph setup Tim :oops: I have all my default "normal" paragraphs configured to keep with next, and only manually deselect that option where I am certain I don't mind if the next paragraph appears on another page. It sounds crazy but I find th...

Hi yes Tim that's what I've tried, the cursor is definitely flashing outside the table but in the paragraph that the table is contained in. No joy. I have to work around it by inserting as manual page break instead