Apple Help Programming Guide
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Introduction to Apple Help Programming Guide 6
Who Should Read This Document 7 Organization of This Document 7 Availability 8
Apple Help Concepts 9
Help Viewer 9 The Help Viewer Window 9 Searching in Help Viewer 10 Cross-References and Index Lists 12 The Library Menu 12 Help Books 13 Internet-Based Help Book Content 14 How Users Access Your Help 15 The Help Menu 15 Help Buttons 16 Help Viewer HTML Items 17 Help-Specific Meta Tags 18 Help URLs 18 Apple Help Segments 18 VoiceOver Summaries 19 The Apple Help Application Programming Interface 19
Authoring Apple Help 21
Designing a Help Book 21 Authoring Help Pages 22 Authoring Tools 23 Creating Topic Pages 23 Printing A Page's URL 25 Creating Navigation Pages 26 Creating a Basic Help Book 30 Organizing the Help Book Bundle 30 Referencing Graphics 31 The Info.plist File 32
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Creating a Title Page 33 Specifying a Help Book Icon 34 Indexing Your Help Book 34 Controlling Indexing of Your Help 35 Using the Help Indexer Utility 40 Running Help Indexer from the Command Line 44 Adding Specialized Content to Your Help Book 44 Adding QuickTime Movies to Your Help Book 44 Running Other Applications from Your Help Book 45 Opening an External Web Page in Help Viewer 45 Using Help URLs in Your Help Book 45 Setting Up Exact Match Searching 51 Providing Your Own Online Support Articles 52 Localizing Your Help Book 54 Language-Specific Resource Directories 54 Character Encoding 54 Indexing a Non-English Help Book 54
Help Book Registration 55
Where to Place Your Help Book Folder 55 How to Register Your Help Book 57 Editing the Information Property List File 57 Using the Apple Help Registration Function 58
Opening Your Help Book in Help Viewer 61
Displaying an Anchor Location 61 Searching Your Help Book 63 Loading a Help Book Page 64
Apple Help Meta Tag Properties 67 Apple Help URLs 68 Apple Help Segments 69 Document Revision History 70

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