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by Alexander Halser
Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:09 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Help & Manual wins Delphi Informant Readers Choice Award
Replies: 4
Views: 5432

Help & Manual wins Delphi Informant Readers Choice Award

We are pleased to anncounce that Help & Manual was honored with the Product Of The Year award by the readers of Delphi Informant Magazine ( http://www.delphizine.com ). Help & Manual again dominated the category "Best help authoring package" with 51% of the votes, sending off the c...
by Alexander Halser
Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:59 am
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: PDF Error: Illegal operation inside a path
Replies: 9
Views: 13928

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?
by Alexander Halser
Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:23 am
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: HREF_INDEX_PAGE and Static TOC
Replies: 7
Views: 2646

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
by Alexander Halser
Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:52 pm
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: Russian Index
Replies: 5
Views: 2197

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?
by Alexander Halser
Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:57 pm
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: Russian Index
Replies: 5
Views: 2197

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.
by Alexander Halser
Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:17 pm
Forum: H&M Wish List
Topic: Pagebreak Indications
Replies: 1
Views: 1463

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...
by Alexander Halser
Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:10 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Passing commands out of .chm in VB .NET?
Replies: 8
Views: 3170

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...
by Alexander Halser
Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:12 pm
Forum: Impict User to User Help
Topic: Distorted colors in SHGs
Replies: 2
Views: 2092

Which version of Help & Manual do you use? We have had such a problem with SHG image, but that should be solved meanwhile.
by Alexander Halser
Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:04 pm
Forum: TNT User to User Help
Topic: Adding Hot Spots to an Image
Replies: 3
Views: 2913

TNT Screen Capture creates only screen shots and saves them in several image formats including Bitmaps, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others. But none of these image formats can save additional information about hot spots (clickable areas that point to a particular topic). This feature is related to help...
by Alexander Halser
Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:55 pm
Forum: TNT User to User Help
Topic: Adding Hot Spots to an Image
Replies: 3
Views: 2913

Judy, you can use an entire image as a link - just insert a link in the topic and instead of a caption, switch to the link style "Bitmap" and specify the image that you want to use. If you want to place a hot spot on a particular area of the image, you need Impict (available in H&M fro...
by Alexander Halser
Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:50 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Help & Manual 3.3.1 (Preview version)
Replies: 0
Views: 3516

Help & Manual 3.3.1 (Preview version)

We are glad to announce the release of a preview version of Help & Manual 3.3.1. This version is a maintenance release and is available to all registered users from the registered user download area. New features: • Browser based help: Help & Manual now creates a hybrid (both a Javascript ve...
by Alexander Halser
Fri Jun 20, 2003 11:18 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: EHS_Demo using Borland C++ Builder 6
Replies: 3
Views: 2314

I am wondering too. The file EHS_B6.dpk does not reference any v5 file. Can you perhaps build a completely new package and register the file "ehs_reg.pas"? This is the key file to register in the design time package. There are no runtime packages with EHS.
by Alexander Halser
Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:06 pm
Forum: Pre-HM5 Bug Reports
Topic: "Cannot create PDF output file"
Replies: 2
Views: 1645

Tom, can you eventually send me the project file (.hm3 with images) with an email ( support AT ec-software.com )? I have no clue why the PDF export fails but if there is no error description, it is very likely a printer driver problem. Which printer driver did you specify for the "PDF reference...
by Alexander Halser
Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:00 pm
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: EHS_Demo using Borland C++ Builder 6
Replies: 3
Views: 2314

It should work if you open the file ehs_b6.bpk and recompile it.
by Alexander Halser
Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:32 am
Forum: Programmers' Corner
Topic: Dumping CHW file
Replies: 3
Views: 2455

I suggest the same, parse the .HHK files with a script or a little program that was written for that. A .chw file is a binary file. While one could open it like a .chm (basically the same format), it's even more hassle to pull out the binary data, put the pieces together and create a keyword list fr...