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Tor, I know I'm fighting a losing battle with my feelings on PDFs -- and these are really my personal opinions on the subejct, that is why there are already many interactive features for PDFs supported in Help & Manual. More will probably follow -- interactive index entries are already on the Wi...

Hi JoanMarie, PDF is essentially a print-based format and popups are not supported in PDF files. Similarly, footnotes are not supported in eBooks because that is an electronic format. Toggles require JavaScript and do not work in PDF or eBooks -- they are always displayed expanded there. Help & ...

Hi Iko, This solution is not really supported by Help & Manual and the program does not actively support this kind of thing -- it is a hack and a workaround that you use at your own risk. Also, you won't be able to combine it with toggles because they require that each table has its own unique I...

Hi Dwimble, Right now I'm trying to pull together a good workflow and instructions to send to the translators along with the XML files...and researching how efficiently it can be used with things like TRADOS, which I know very little about. Whether or not you use Trados or Across or another similar ...

Hi Fnordbak, That is what the topic IDs and help context numbers are for (note that help context numbers are only available in WinHelp and HTML Help/CHM, however). You can find tutorials explaining how to interface with your help in most current programming languages here: http://www.ec-software.com...

Tina,

This is definitely a Microsoft/IE7 issue and John's suggestions are spot-on. Thanks John!

Dean, I agree with you in part -- some users may be comfortable with the book format of PDF, but those users will be even more comfortable printing the PDF out and reading it as a manual, and that is what almost all of them actually do. However, adding interactive features to the PDF will not make i...

Iko, You will be able to get around this as of Version 4.2, because you will be able to enter IDs for your tables in the Table Properties. Then you should be able to define additional CSS styles referencing the table IDs directly. The field for entering the IDs is actually already available but plea...

Hi FransR, You can suppress graphics and any other content in different formats with the conditional text feature. Select the graphic, select Insert > Conditional Text and then select the appropriate conditions and formats to include or exclude the graphics in the selected formats. For full details ...

Hi Thorin, I believe PDFs are excellent help systems because of their likeness with a physical book(let), allowing the user to quickly browse through the pages using e.g. PageUp and PageDown. Possibly, but that is the end of their usefulness. Otherwise, PDFs are really not so good as an electronic h...

Francois, In addition to Cristoph's suggestion, you can also "conditionally" change the title of your projects and most of the other user-editable fields in Project Properties by using variables in combination with command-line compiling. Then you can redefine any variables in your project...

Hi Martin, I generally find that indexed PNGs look slightly better than GIFs but there's not much in that. That's puzzling, because both formats are claimed to be lossless, which presumably means each pixel ends up exactly the same colour as it started. That's why I said there's not much in it. I'm ...

Hi Thorsten, This feature was actually not activated in all builds, although the entry field was already there. You should actually be grateful for this, because a change in the system made necessary by the toggles means that any IDs entered for images and tables in earlier versions will be cleared ...

Hi Dave, One problem remains...all projects are still slow to open, though if you close them and open them again immediately they reload in seconds. Hmm... Is it possible that you have some leftover invalid paths in other locations in your projects, not just in the image paths? For example, have you...

Hi Jose, You can't do this within Help & Manual itself. However, if you have the Professional version you can export all your topics to a single XML file, find and replace all hyperlink references in the XML file and then re-import the XML. To do this select File > Compile and choose XML as the ...