Online Help Location

[Folbo]

Hi.

I am looking for the online version of the 'help' that is built in to Publisher on the Mac. Publisher launches the awful 'help' system of Mac OS ... half a screen over the top over everything etc.etc. Is the content available online sop I can view via Safari ... like Sketch does ... Thanks.

(BTW. Not the video tutorials thanks ... ).

[Alfred]

Please see: https://affinity.help/publisher

[v_kyr]

33 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Please see: https://affinity.help/publisher

IMO since it's essientiell for many peoples questions here in this forum section, this (https://affinity.help/) reference should also be firmly anchored on top of this forum section here! - Since only few people seem to find or search after it, under the resources section.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, Folbo said:

Publisher launches the awful 'help' system of Mac OS ... half a screen over the top over everything etc.etc.

FWIW, the Mac OS Help Viewer window is resizable. At least two free 3rd party utilities, TinkerTool  & Onyx, allow you to set the Help Viewer window to 'non-floating' mode so it behaves (almost) like a normal application window. Together, they can make using Help Viewer a lot more useful by allowing users to move it to the background and/or resizing it to use less screen space.

For either of these utilities, it is important to use a version compatible with the Mac OS version you are running. (Both will alert you if you are not.) Of the two, I suggest trying out TinkerTool first. It launches quickly, does not require admin authentication to run, & affects only the current user's settings. Onyx is more of a 'Swiss army knife' utility that includes many more features, some of which should be used with caution, only after reading the app's help to make sure they will not have undesired or unexpected effects. (All such features are marked with warnings about that.)

Both utilities access normally hidden features already built into the OS, so in that sense it is safe to use them (for Onyx noting the cautions where indicated). Both include reset to defaults options. 

[v_kyr]

5 hours ago, R C-R said:

At least two free 3rd party utilities, TinkerTool  & Onyx, allow you to set the Help Viewer window to 'non-floating' mode so it behaves (almost) like a normal application window. Together, they can make using Help Viewer a lot more useful by allowing users to move it to the background and/or resizing it to use less screen space. ...

There is no need for those tools, you can adjust that quickly yourself via a simple call in terminal, or some bash || Automator || python script executing the setting call, etc. - All you usually just have to do from inside of a terminal is ...

• Setting HelpViewer into "DevMode" with "-bool YES" so it's window can be send to back etc ...

Quote

user@imac> defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool YES

• To revert the HelpViewer window and behavior back to it's default just set "DevMode -bool NO"  ...

Quote

user@imac> defaults write com.apple.helpviewer DevMode -bool NO

 

[R C-R]

I did not mention using Terminal for this because some users are not comfortable using it.