Project Properties Reference

The settings in this section control how your project is exported to eBooks, a self-contained format including your help project and a viewer program in a single file. Like Help & Manual's Browser-based Help, the standard eBooks viewer provide a close approximation of the HTML Help viewer layout so that it can be used intuitively by all Windows users. In addition to a Table of Contents with expanding and collapsing sections it also includes a Keyword Index, full-text search and supports fully-formatted popup topics with graphics, formatted text and links.

In addition to the standard layout the eBooks viewer also has a number of alternative skin files (viewer templates) with which you can create other layouts.

Since eBooks is an HTML-based format it shares some settings with the other HTML-based output formats supported by Help & Manual:

Shared settings:

The options in the following two sections are shared by all HTML-based output formats (HTML Help, Browser-Based Help, eBooks and Visual Studio Help (MS Help 2.0).

Topic Pages:

These are the HTML templates that control the layout of your topic pages. There is only one version of each template for all HTML-based output formats. You cannot create separate templates for each output format.

HTML Export Options:

These are the general settings for all HTML output formats, including image conversion and export options and the options for the CSS style sheet used to export the style formatting information from your project. Here too, there is only one CSS style sheet and one set of HTML Export Options for all four output formats. You cannot enter different settings for each output format.

•	Note that not all the settings in this section are relevant for all HTML-based output formats. See HTML Export Options for details.

Common settings in the Help Windows section:

The settings in the Help Windows section also define the background colors of the topics and their headers in eBooks, and whether the topics have headers. The size and position of the eBook viewer are defined in the Visual Appearance section. All other settings in the Help Windows section are irrelevant for eBooks.