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Christoph, I can confirm the DPI error when you save to JPG. When I save with 72dpi Paint Shop Pro tells me that it has 300, so the wrong DPI number is being saved with JPGs. This is a cosmetic bug. However, remember that the DPI setting has no effect on the physical size of the image, not in any gr...

Aline, This isn't supported directly but you can achieve it with a small trick: First select all the topics in your TOC and press Ctrl+C to copy. Then click in an empty topic in Help & Manual and press Ctrl+V to paste. The result will be a list of all your topic captions. Add tabs stops to re-cr...

Christoph,

Note that you may actually get slightly better results with the Excel/Word solution. The reason is that the graphic is then an EMF vector graphic, which can be scaled before compiling without degradation of quality. Once it's compiled it's a normal bitmap, of course...

Hi Cristoph, You can do this in H&M too -- just save the Word file in RTF format and then import it. The result will be an EMF graphic. You don't need to make life so hard for yourself, however: You can also insert Excel tables directly with Insert > OLE Object . Here too, the result will be a g...

Jure,

Unicode support for PDF was added in version 4.2, released a couple of days ago.

Hi Hasso,

Hasso wrote: I think that's not right. The good old WinHelp doesn't need a browser at all (contrary to HTML Help).

That's not what we're talking about here: Cristoph needs to drop WinHelp because his company is preparing for Windows Vista -- and WinHelp will not work on Vista.

Christoph, If your users are on computers that don't have a browser installed your only real option is HTML Help. This will almost certainly work since it's not really possible to remove Internet Explorer completely, although you can disable it so that users can't access it. If your company has mana...

Andy,

Just pack your forms into a ZIP file and create an Internet link to them, then the download prompt will come automatically when the user clicks on the link.

Hi Thorsten, Yes, this will work because filenames in Windows are not case-sensitive. And since Help & Manual lowercases the filenames in your code on export anyway it doesn't matter that they have mixed-case names in the references in your topics. Theoretically you could export everything to a ...

Thorsten,

Once the files are in the HTML output folder they are "out" and H&M no longer touches them again nor knows anything about them. If the references to the images in the HTML code is lower-cased all you are doing by correcting the filenames is fixing the problem.

Thorsten, Hmm... that really should have been fixed, something appears to be wrong. The best tool I know for doing multi-file case changes and renaming (and hundreds of other things too) is the file manager Total Commander from http://www.ghisler.com/ It has a brilliant multi-file rename tool, an ex...

Thorsten,

Confirmed -- this used to work, it will be checked.

Hi Tor,

The reasons for this and how to deal with this problem is now explained in the help. See:

More Advanced Procedures > Conditions and Customized Output > Topic include options > Excluding ALL a topic's subtopics.

Hi Robert, Help & Manual supports two different kinds of custom dictionaries: Global dictionaries that are accessible to all your projects and project dictionaries that are only available to a specific project. The global custom dictionaries are stored in the /dictionaries folder in the H&M ...

Darren, I can confirm the behavior. It appears to be a bug in the updated version of Impict or one of its components included with H&M 4.2. The development team is investigating the problem but for the moment you can work around it by saving as .BMP instead of GIF after adding the border to your...