Help & Manual Forums

I just wanted to say "Thanks for all the help!" Tim I'd like to add my name to the vote of thanks. Not only has Tim provided over 5000 in-depth replies on these forums -- at the same time he was writing, and now maintains, the incredibly detailed Help files for H&M, and he is now runn...

Like WinHelp, PDF only understands BMP, so if you use GIFs H&M will convert them to BMP when you export to PDF. This doesn't have to be bad, but it does take some extra time. Hi Tim, All image formats have to be converted to bitmaps before they can be displayed or printed. It happens to every i...

Have I understood the PDF/BMP issue correctly? Does this sound like a reasonable compromise? :? Hi Dean, Firstly, I should have added a note that once you have made the mistake of saving in JPG format, converting to GIF won't work -- the file size may even increase. You have to start with the origi...

You can get away with smaller images....Using conditionals, you can still have large screen shots in the pdf output for printed manuals. Hi Dean, If you obey the two golden rules for screenshots: 1. reduce colour-depth to 8-bit (256 colours) 2. save in GIF format you will usually find that the size...

As far as I can tell H&M content is stored in the proprietory project file. Is there any way to access the topics content in a raw format? Hi Andyr, If you have the professional version of H&M4, you can export and import topics in XML format. You can create topics programmatically by follow...

I noticed that the search will not work unless there are 3 letters typed. Is it possible or is there a way to change this? Also, in the search area, is it possible to put your own text there instead or as well as what is already written ie: "enter one or more keywords...etc"? Hi Rossco, Y...

Maybe it's too simple a solution, but if they just reserved 3 spaces for the page digits, it would cover manuals up to 999 pages, which i would imagine to be the bulk. Hi Ramsey, Spaces won't work because a) in most fonts a space is not the same width as a numeric character, and b) the editor uses ...

But I want to insert a link picture where the text "Get the latest browser from Microsoft here" are shown when the user mouseover the Microsoft IE picture inside my browser-based manual. Hi Hessner, You can do this using Insert > Plain HTML Code... menu item. Insert your picture with the ...

I would like to show a message to my users when linking to an Internet page from within the web-based help(and not just showing the picture name). Hi, You can add an image caption when inserting (or subsequently editing) an image. The caption is exported in the ALT tag for the image. If you leave t...

I basically want a single HTML page which will contain all of the contents of my document without the table of contents. Because I will also be using the standard browser-based help format and I will be doing this with several documents, simply copying the contents of each topic into a single topic...

BTW, this should go into the Wish List forum, but I don't know how to switch it from here to there. Martin? Tim? Hi Dean, It should now, but originally Jack was asking if the option already existed, so it was in the right forum to start. I think only Tim can shift threads from one forum to another....

I'd prefer to be asked, or at least have the option. Please tell me the option exists, if I'd only read the help file? Hi Jack, I don't think that option exists. And I second your suggestion -- I would much prefer it too. H&M is constantly telling me that it has added this or that folder to my ...

alnishajca wrote:Is there a way to track changes made from version to version?

Hi,

See this feed: http://www.ec-software.com/news/feed.xml

It is also available via the Help > Check for Update menu item in H&M.

Martin.

This might be a dumb question, but if I output my project to browser based help, how is the help distributed and viewed? Hi Carolyn, Upload the entire HTML folder to the server (you might want to rename the folder, e.g. help_files). Then provide your users with a link to .../help_files/index.html (...

Can the hmx file contain wiki links and have the content imported automatically at compile time? Hi timb, There is an import for HTML and text files at compile time, but the result will be visible only in your CHM output (and other HTML-based outputs), not your PDF file. See the docs for the #MERGE...