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The project report (from the tools) menu is pretty flexible... You can select which topics to report and how much of the topic (small/medium/max details) and sort them the way you want. It reports links to other topics, macros, broken links, images and image hot spots, keywords and help context numb...

Is it possible to print a list of topics with special settings?

Yes. The project report (from the tools menu) does this.

Provide more text variables such as one which will refer to the current topic's title. What do you want to use it for? The topic header is visible anyway, when the topic is displayed in the browser. The topic title is the short caption of the corresponding TOC entry. You can use the variable <%TOPI...

I cannot duplicate this - works fine for me with one drawback: not all WordArt effects are visible in the PDF. The skewed text, for instance, doesn't have a surface. Looks funny but not as intended. The problem here is the Windows metafile. If you paste it in the manual designer (or H&M), you ge...

The HTML error is just a warning that the mentioned IPP image contains hotspots to a topic not found in this help project. Help & Manual ignores the link in this case and just exports the image without the dead links. Has nothing to do with the PDF problem. Can you send me the project including ...

The WordArt image is an OLE object - a Windows Metafile if you paste it in Help & Manual. Can you delete it temporarily (if you don't save the project file, nothing is damaged) to check whether that image makes the problem?

Is on the wish list. We need customizable shortcuts for that, as the "defaults" are language dependent. You don't find a Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< on a Czech or Polish Word, for instance.

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What is on that particular page? (You can check this with the print preview if you use the same manual template)

From my own experience I could imagine it's a complicated OLE object embedded in a topic. Does that happen with other versions of the PDF viewer as well?

Richard,

we'll fix this problem for the static TOC a.s.a.p. Meanwhile, please take a look at the preview of version 3.31 which features a new hybrid TOC that works with Opera as well. So you have the advantage of a dynamic TOC plus Opera.

http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtopic.php?t=981

Please send in the .hm3 file to support AT ec-software.com.

What about the internal keyword finder in "Search|Keyword Search"? Does this sorting utility fail either?

Is the keyword list not sorted or not printed correctly?
If it's the latter, you should change the character set of the font and/or the font used for the keyword text object in the manual template.

Would be nice but is hardly predictable. Unlike Word, Help & Manual only loads the current topic into memory and may be but is not guaranteed that the current topic will start at the top of a new page. That depends on the preceeding topics and to re-calculate this in the background is almost imp...

The training card command should work for that. You can use a "Winhelp macro" (Insert|Winhelp Macro) to implement a TCard command. Macro syntax in H&M: TCard(number) where number is any integer number. This macro works for Winhelp (.hlp) and compiled HTML Help (H&M translates the m...

Which version of Help & Manual do you use? We have had such a problem with SHG image, but that should be solved meanwhile.