Re: Larger font for Help (was: Signature appPath...)
Re: Larger font for Help (was: Signature appPath...)
- Subject: Re: Larger font for Help (was: Signature appPath...)
- From: "Christopher C. Stone" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 05:08:19 -0600
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The fact that they're html makes it *very* possible to display in a
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different size, but you'll have to use a regular browser to do it, since
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Help Viewer doesn't have an option to change the base font size. In other
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words, fire up your browser of choice, crank up the font size, navigate into
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the help files (HD : System Folder : Help : ...), and start opening pages.
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Of course, this means you'll lose some of the "do it for me" features,
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because they rely on link types that only Help Viewer understands.
Greetings,
While I like the simple flexibility of html-based help, I can do little but castigate Apple's Help Viewer. The silly thing doesn't even support basic keyboard navigation such as page up/down, home, or end. Nor is there a Find capability for the visible page.
Clearly, I could go on and on...
More to the point for this list - the Help Viewer *is* scriptable. It's possible to get the current file and open it in another browser - permitting the use of all the custom features of H.V. and then viewing the result in Explorer for instance.
set goFlag to false
tell application "Finder"
if (process 1 whose creator type is "hbwr") exists then
set goFlag to true
end if
end tell
if goFlag = true then
tell application "Help Viewer"
set thePage to current file as string
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set thePage to text items of thePage
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
set thePage to thePage as string
set thePage to "file:///" & thePage
tell application "Explorer"
Activate
OpenURL thePage toWindow 0
end tell
else
beep 2
end if
The use of a utility like OneClick, QuicKeys, KeyQuencer, or OSA Menu makes this task relatively convenient.
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Best Regards,
Christopher Stone
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