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Willem, This is all true. Actually, the editor engine in H&M does support setting individual cell border attributes. However, during the initial development of H&M4 it was decided to keep the options relatively simple to make them easier to use, also because help tends not to have such exot...

Is there a way to change this? The edges of the callouts are very rough. Hi Keith, Select the callout, and then Object > Anti-Aliasing > menu options. The snag with this is that it can smudge the callout text. I avoid this by leaving the callout text blank, and overlaying the text as a separate bit...

The reason why I was hoping you could link CHM files was to get around the inability to search across multiple manuals on the Web. Hi Cindy, The browser-based search function in H&M Pro works by indexing the output files from H&M, not by indexing the source topics. And it indexes ALL the fi...

Is there any way that you can "find" a particular conditional tag? Hi, If you swap to the XML view, you can search for conditional tags which look like this: <conditional-text type="IF" value="PDF"/> So if you do a search for the string type="IF" value="...

sboehrer wrote:Do you know where they might be residing?

Hi,

The C:\WINDOWS\CURSORS\ folder is the usual location.

Just use the normal Windows Search function for *.cur files.

Martin.

I wrote:Compile your project as a single XML file.

p.s. A simpler option is to create a Full Project Report including Image References.
You can then use Ctrl-F Find on Page to search for "embedded image".

Martin.

Is there a quick method of checking that a, say, 500 page document has no embedded graphics - only inserted ones? Hi John, Compile your project as a single XML file. Open it in a text editor and search for any " embedded-image " strings. The image data is between the <embedded-image... > ...

Don't despair, Search and Replace Fonts is going to be back and stronger than ever in version 4.2 in June. :) Hi Tim, Very pleased to hear it. :) It was a mystery to me why it was ever dropped. While we are restoring useful HM3 features, please can we also have overwrite mode in the editor (so very...

How did you come to Help & Manual? Is it your first (HAT) help authoring tool or did you switch to it from another tool or method of producing help? Hi Tim, I was using HelpScribble. H&M was getting high praise on a Delphi programming forum, so I gave it a try. No contest! That was HM3 of c...

Tim Green wrote:GIFs could certainly be a solution for simple animations --
I just haven't seen any decent programs for converting video to GIF

Hi Tim,

Camtasia can do this. Here is something more familiar:

http://www.templotweb.co.uk/info/hm4_ani_gif.htm

Martin.

Somewhere in the region of 90% of all users have it now and it loads automatically if you don't have it. Hi Tim, I think you are placing too much reliance on Macromedia publicity. I have one system where the Flash plug-in resolutely fails to install in Firefox. Only last week Microsoft suggested di...

This is the best solution for video in help because all other formats will generally fail to play on some users' computers, because they are either configured wrong or don't have the necessary codecs. Hi Tim, But this also applies to Flash. Some users won't have the required plug-in, or will have A...

When I create a new topic, H&M always puts "Enter topic text here" in the text area. Is there a way to prevent it from doing that? Hi, You need to create your own content template for new topics. You can have as many of these templates as you wish, to provide empty frameworks for new ...

However, when I tested this using the build option that would exclude the source chapter, the compiler gave me a "List out of bounds (0)" error message when it reached the unitary/embedded topic. A bug? Or was I simply trying to do something irrational? Or should I say, more irrational th...

I would like to produce a PDF file for one topic only? How can I do this? Hi, 1. select the required topic in the TOC. 2. File > Compile Help File... menu item. 3. select Adobe PDF in the drop-down list. 4. In the Include Options: list, tick Selected Topics (the list turns yellow). 5. Click OK . Ma...