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- **** Help Magician Pro 95 Small DEMO Read Me File *******
-
- Thank you for your interest in Help Magician Pro 95!
-
- You have a demo of one of the best help authoring tools
- on the market for creating Windows help files and
- Internet Web pages from your help files.
-
- Being a demo version, we've disabled certain features
- in Help Magician such as spell checking, rtf importing,
- html exporting, limited project management features, and
- limited the demo to 25 help topics. The demo version
- also does not include the clipart library, nor the
- opening.wav and sp05.avi file for demo95 source, or
- some executables and the website demonstration.
-
- We attempted to make this demo as small as possible so
- it can be downloaded off the web (thus a lot of stuff has
- been left out). You can request our "Help Magician Pro 95
- Demo and Hypertext Tools CDROM", which is packed full of
- clipart, midi files, WinHelp Add-ons, and Help Magician Pro
- 95 demo in its entirety.
-
- When you are ready to purchase Help Magician Pro 95,
- view the purchase.hlp file for information on how to
- unlock the demo so you can get started right away.
-
- We suggest that you run the Help Wizard from within Help
- Magician's Help Menu and let it give you an introduction
- to Help Magician.
-
- We've included demo files that you can open and explore.
- They are in the \DEMO31 (for Windows 3.1 users), \DEMO95
- (for Windows 95 users), and \WEBDEMO (to show a sample
- of a help file converted to a web site).
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- This file contains any last minute notes that didn't
- make it into the manual or the help file.
-
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- HTML Support
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-
- The manual was written before the completion of the
- HTML support in Help Magician. There have been quite a
- few changes since the manual was published. Refer to
- the online help file for documentation on the HTML
- support. We've included a Website demo in the \WEBDEMO
- subdirectory to show how a sample website can be done.
- This demo shows an early version of our website
- currently at www.sinterphase.com. You will need Windows
- 95 to see the WEBSITE.HLP file.
-
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- Clipart
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-
- We've included a collection of clipart images that you
- can use in your help file or web site. They are located
- in the \CLIPART directory.
-
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- Using 256-color Bitmaps in Windows 3.1
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-
- You have two options for using 256 color bitmaps:
-
- 1) Help Magician Pro includes a DLL that allows WinHelp
- for Windows 3.1 to display 256 color bitmaps. The Help
- Magician Installation program installs this DLL to your
- Windows directory. When you make a HLP file, you need to
- distribute the HMEW2.DLL file to your customers. You
- must make sure it gets installed in their Windows
- directory. Also, you must distribute all the 256-color
- .bmps with the .hlp file and install them in the same
- directory as the .hlp file. If you don't do any of the
- above, WinHelp will display the message "Unable to
- display picture" when showing a 256-color bitmap. You
- may distribute the HMEW2.DLL royalty-free. Windows 95
- supports high color bitmaps without the need for this
- DLL or distributing the bitmap files.
-
- 2) Use the HC505.EXE help compiler in place of the
- HC31.EXE help compiler. It has a few quirks, so we
- recommend you completely check out your help file. This
- compile supports 256-color images directly without the
- need for HMEW2.DLL or including your .bmp files.
-
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- Images and Memory
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-
- There are three methods that can be used to represent
- images in the editor.
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- Display Image
- Stores the image in memory and in the HLX file. This
- method uses the most memory and disk space but provides
- the fastest display of the image in the editor.
-
- Display Filename
- Stores the filename only in memory and in the HLX file.
- This method uses the least memory and disk space of all
- the display options.
-
- Link to File
- Stores only the image filename in memory and in the HLX
- but displays the image in the editor. This method is a
- compromise between the two methods described above.
-
- After installation, the system defaults to Link to File.
- This can be changed at any time in the Environment
- Options form, available from the Options menu.
-
-
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- Backup Source Files
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-
- The Help Magician will keep previous versions of the
- source (.HLX) for your help system depending on the
- setting on the File Save tab in the Environment Options
- form. After installation the system defaults to two files
- but this can be changed at any time in the Environment
- Options form, available from the Options menu. The
- extensions for the backups are from .H01 to .H10.
-
-
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- Special Font
- ********************************************************
-
- A special font has been installed on your system for use
- with the Help Magician's Macro Editor. In the font
- selection dialog, it will be listed as:
-
- Help Macro 10
-
- IMPORTANT: After installation, you will have to re-start
- Windows for this font to be available.
-
-
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- Multimedia
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-
- The Help Magician automates the use of audio (.WAV), midi
- (.MID), video (.AVI), and movie (.MMM) files in your help
- system using the standard WinHelp engine, supplied with
- Microsoft Windows 3.1. Windows 95 Help supports
- multimedia directly.
-
- The Help Magician is shipped with:
- (1) MMMovie driver, MCIMMP.DRV & MMP.DLL.
- (2) Example Midi file: CANYON.MID
- (3) Example MMMovie file: SNDOIL.MMM
- (4) Example Wave file: THANKS.WAV
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