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Re: Using PDF File for Apple Help?

On May 29, 2004, at 10:47, Dave Kupiec wrote:

In Thorsten Lemke's Graphic Converter 5.0, he has taken a different approach to Apple Help. When you open the Help menu, you have a menu-item that reads "Open Users Guide..." Selecting that opens the PDF user manual in the Preview app. The actual PDF file is located in the Graphic Converter Package in a dedicated Documentation folder.

We are considering going that route as a means to avoid re-writing our entire PDF Help to run in Help Viewer. Does anyone know what is necessary to make the Help menu open a locally packaged PDF file, and how to modify the Help menu to read that way?

Just add the menu item to the Help menu yourself, then you can do whatever you want. It's what we did in the past.

MenuRef helpMenu;
OSStatus err = ::HMGetHelpMenu(&helpMenu, nil);

if(err == noErr) {
AppendMenuItemText(helpMenu, "\pMy Apps Help");
SetMenuItemCommandID(helpMenu, CountMenuItems(helpMenu), kMyHelpCmd);
SetMenuItemCommandKey(helpMenu, CountMenuItems(helpMenu), true, kHelpKey);
SetMenuItemModifiers(helpMenu, CountMenuItems(helpMenu), kMenuNoCommandModifier);
}

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