When your project is finished you will want to output it to one of the seven output formats supported by Help & Manual (eight if you count printed manuals, which are basically a printout of the PDF output). You can generate all these formats from the same project without any changes to your content, with the exception of a few formatting features that are not supported by Winhelp Note that Windows Vista does not support Winhelp. If you want to be compatible with Vista you must transition to a different help format..

The layout of the content of your topic pages is controlled by what you enter in the Help & Manual editor but there are many other aspects of your output that you can configure individually for different output formats. You have very extensive control over how Help & Manual generates the output in the individual formats. These options are all configured with settings for the individual output formats in Project Properties.

The topics in this chapter provide an introduction to configuring the options for each format with references to documentation of the individual settings available for each format.

For more information on the individual output formats see Help Formats in the Reference section.

See also:

Project Properties

Help Formats

Page url: http://www.helpandmanual.com/help/index.html?hm_working_configoutput.htm