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by Martin Wynne
Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:47 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 4 Forum
Topic: Syntax Error when trying to print PDF
Replies: 5
Views: 4725

Re: Syntax Error when trying to print PDF

I haven't changed my printer or printer driver or my print manual template. This is due today, of course. Any thoughts? Hi Dean, If this error is coming from the Adobe Reader or some other PDF reading software, don't forget that you can print a manual directly from H&M to get out of trouble. Fi...
by Martin Wynne
Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:24 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 4 Forum
Topic: Table woes when copying to other apps
Replies: 8
Views: 1716

That means I still need to add quotation marks to my column headings, but I can live with that. Hi David, Have you tried replacing the soft spaces in your headings with hard non-breaking spaces ( & n b s p ; ) ? You can do that in an HTML table but not directly in a topic. (I tried inserting a ...
by Martin Wynne
Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:48 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 4 Forum
Topic: Table woes when copying to other apps
Replies: 8
Views: 1716

Re: Table woes when copying to other apps

davidhyde wrote:Any suggestions?
Hi David,

Have you tried Insert > Plain HTML Code... to insert an HTML table in the topic instead of using the editor's table functions?

If you don't put any paras in the <td> elements they won't be in the output.

Martin.
by Martin Wynne
Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:25 am
Forum: Help & Manual 4 Forum
Topic: HTML help table of contents format
Replies: 4
Views: 981

Re: HTML help table of contents format

The remaining issue is how to use a batch file to perform search and replace on an HTML file (without cygwin/grep etc). Hi Simon, NoteTab ( http://www.notetab.com ) can do this. It has a "clip language" for scripts which can include search/replace using regular expressions, and can be run...
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:44 am
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Another User With Delphi 7 Problems calling CHM file
Replies: 7
Views: 3336

I found that the value being used by PChar(Application.HelpFile) was not valid, due to a bad placement of this statement in my app: Application.HelpFile := ApplicationDataDir + '\WINFLS10.CHM'; had been placed ahead of setting the value of ApplicationDataDir so Application.Helpfile was being set to...
by Martin Wynne
Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:00 am
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Getting started with H&M in Delphi 7
Replies: 9
Views: 4793

1. User selects the Help menu item or presses F1 2. We want to call the help file (chm) and have it display the desired topic, based on the topic id. We don't do any what's this kind of stuff ... just straight forward display of help topics from the helpfile. Hi Patrick, If that's all you want to d...
by Martin Wynne
Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:46 am
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Delphi 2
Replies: 13
Views: 11135

Hi Phil, I have CHM Help working in D2, using some code I found in an old file. It's not mine, it came originally from Jan Goyvaerts. A user tabbing to a control and pressing F1 opens the Help at the topic set by the control's context ID, as for WinHelp. Or you can put buttons on the form to open th...
by Martin Wynne
Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:57 am
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Text Style only changes the selected attributes
Replies: 15
Views: 5929

Ok, second try. Either we talk at cross-purposes or I don't get it :? Same example, but two new styles added: One called "Normal+Bold+Italic" which is derived from "Normal" and a second one called "Notes+Bold+Italic" which is derived from "Notes". Both styles...
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:37 pm
Forum: Help & Manual 4 Forum
Topic: extra space on bolded text in pdf?
Replies: 3
Views: 916

Re: extra space on bolded text in pdf?

In the pdfs I generate now there seems to be an extra space before each bolded text string. Hi, We have been discussing this in the Bug Reports forum. See: http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtopic.php?p=20276 If you read through that you will see a suggested workaround until it can be fixed. Martin.
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:51 pm
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Text Style only changes the selected attributes
Replies: 15
Views: 5929

I still believe that having a named text-only style that affects only selected attributes would be very useful and easier to work with in the long run Hi Dean, I agree. The current styles functionality in H&M is quite restrictive, especially the confusing mixing of para styles with text styles ...
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:24 pm
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Text Style only changes the selected attributes
Replies: 15
Views: 5929

Why don't I just use the Bold button and the Italic button, one after the other? Because at some point I might want to change my Bold+Italic emphasis style to be only Bold or only Italic or Bold+Red or some other combination of attributes. Hi Dean, Have you fully explored the new Replace Styles fun...
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:27 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Delphi 2
Replies: 13
Views: 11135

Hi Phil, I've dabbled a little with THelpRouter in D2 but so far I haven't got it working. :( But I have got CHM Help working in D2 -- see next message. By the way, I did see that HTML help is much preferred for Vista. 99% of my users have a browser installed, so that won't be a problem. I think you...
by Martin Wynne
Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:26 am
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: Space before a bold character in PDF seems larger
Replies: 13
Views: 4116

For everyone using it: This will only work properly if the text in your project is also Unicode. Hi Tim, All I will add is that I didn't change to unicode and it did cure the space-before-bold problem (but not the baseline problem). That's not to say it will work for anyone else, of course. Possibl...
by Martin Wynne
Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:56 pm
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: Space before a bold character in PDF seems larger
Replies: 13
Views: 4116

The extra-space-before-bold problem can be cured. H&M4.2 has an undocumented new setting at Project > Project Properties... > Adobe PDF > Font Embedding > CID Font Mode: If this is changed to Unicode the extra space does not occur. More about CID fonts at: http://www.adobe.com/products/postscrip...
by Martin Wynne
Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:12 pm
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: Space before a bold character in PDF seems larger
Replies: 13
Views: 4116

I'm also getting the previously reported problem that the baseline of bolded words shifts randomly, usually upward, in the PDF output. Hi Dean, I can confirm both problems with 4.2, extra space and upshifted bold. Are you creating an interactive PDF or a PDF for user printing? If the latter, try do...