Basic Working Procedures > Using Graphics

Inserting graphics in your topics with Help & Manual couldn't be easier – just select the Insert Graphic button in the Toolbar and choose your graphic file. Graphics can now also have captions that are stored with the graphic so that you no longer need to maintain separate captions in your text.

Help & Manual also has an integrated screenshot program for making quick illustrations and supports dynamic resizing and graphics with clickable hotspots that can use all the link types supported in topic text, including file links, scripts and macros.

Directly supported graphics formats:

All the following graphics formats can be inserted in your projects directly with Insert > Picture:

►	Standard bitmaps (.BMP)

►	Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (.GIF)

►	JPEG Graphics (.JPG)

►	Portable Network Graphics (.PNG)

►	Photoshop images (.PSD)

►	Paint Shop Pro images (.PSP, single-layer only)

►	TIFF images (.TIF)

►	Kodak PhotoCD images (.PCD)

►	Windows Metafiles (.WMF, .EMF)

►	Impict graphics (.IPP, the special format of our Impict graphic editor)

►	Segmented Hyper Graphics (.SHG, the Winhelp hotspot graphics format.)

Using old .SHG graphics containing hotspots:

The .SHG format for 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. graphics is now deprecated because hotspots can be added to all graphics formats directly in the Help & Manual editor. You no longer need .SHG files to use hotspots in your images in Help & Manual.

However, if you have old .SHG files with hotspots you can now use them in your projects directly. As of version 4.2, Help & Manual will automatically convert the hotspots in these graphics into its own format.

Hotspots in old .IPP graphics can only be imported with their project:

Hotspots in .IPP graphics created with Help & Manual 3 cannot be imported to Help & Manual 4 projects on their own because they are linked to specific projects. The hotspots will only be imported if the .IPP images are imported together with the .HM3 project for which they were created.