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Alexander, Confirmed, thanks for reminding me of this. The problem with your workaround is that it creates two unnecessary empty pages. For example, if the last page is 17, using the workaround puts the Back Cover on 20, but it should really be on 18. I suggest posting a feature request in the Wish ...

Debbie,

The log file swithc is /L=, not /E=, that's the only problem. You can also use the same switch for eBooks but the log there won't contain much information, just any errors registered.

I'm getting nothing when attempt to download. Dean's right, it's a problem with Internet Explorer. Not only does it try to interpret the file as HTML when you click on the download link, it also changes the extension from .TXT to .HTM when you right-click on the link and select Save Target As... to...

Corseford, (I split your post off and moved it from Announcements to the Help & Manual 4 section.) I am sure you will get some responses from users on the forum as well. Generally, H&M provides extensive control for generating and formatting PDFs and you also have the added benefit that if y...

Hi Andy, I have no idea at all what Apache FOP is -- maybe someone else will be able to help you on that. :? Help & Manual can generate "page referrers" for the links within your document in PDF. These are small icons containing the page number on which the topic containing the target ...

I can only repeat, thank you very much everyone!

Hi Alex, 1300 topics and 950 images sounds quite reasonable and I wonder about the 400 mb CHM size, too. In my experience the most common cause of this kind of problem is the combination of 1) Using all True Color images and 2) Setting image conversion to convert all images to PNG. If images have 25...

Thanks a lot for your kind words! I actually missed passing the 5000 mark myself, thanks for pointing it out. We also just passed the 4000 mark on forum memberships.

Martin, All image formats have to be converted to bitmaps before they can be displayed or printed. That's true, but neither of these applies when you are compiling. For example, GIFs, JPGs and PNGs are all simply copied to your output when you are generating HTML-based output. BMPs are just copied i...

Dean, Martin, I used H&M's screen capture utility to capture the forum's home page (login) as a BMP and as a GIF, both at 256 colors. 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 ...

Dane, You can control this and much more in the print manual templates that control the entire layout and appearance of your printed manuals. These templates are edited with an additional program included with Help & Manual called the Print Manual Designer. For details on using and editing these...

Hi Wolf, This is not a bug. It is caused by the way that H&M locates images, which is used to ensure that your projects will be portable. When you insert an image in H&M only the filename reference is inserted in the topic page, there is no path information. H&M finds the image by search...

Hi Robert, H&M can't directly import the popups used in RoboHelp or other systems because their coding is completely different and relies on proprietary scripting used by the other programs. Basically what you need to do is to recreate your popups in Help & Manual. To get started see the fol...

Robert, In PDF images are only resized to fit the page if they are inserted directly on the page -- this is done automatically by Adobe Reader, which fits oversized images onto the page. However, if you insert images in tables you are responsible for making sure that the image fits inside the table ...

Flavia and I have now also discussed this in email via the support desk. The initial bloated size of the CHM was caused by the fact that most or possibly all of her images were TrueColor and the conversion options were set to PNG. This is a recipe for problems, because PNG creates gigantic TrueColor...