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Document Revision History

This table describes the changes to Apple Help Programming Guide.

DateNotes
2007-10-31Added information about Knowledge Base searching, ExactMatch, and generated lists. Updated all screen shots.
 

See “Providing Your Own Online Support Articles,” “Setting Up Exact Match Searching,” and “Generating Lists from Anchors.”

 

Also, see “Printing A Page’s URL,” “Opening an External Web Page in Help Viewer,” and “Automating Help Tasks with AppleScript.”

2007-05-30Updated for Mac OS X v10.4 and Mac OS X v10.5. Changed the title from "Providing User Assistance With Apple Help"
 

Updated HTML 3.2 references to HTML 4.01 and specified that the title page must be XHTML 1.0.

 

Updated information about how to organize the help book folder (“Organizing the Help Book Folder”).

 

Changed Apple Help Indexing Tool references to Help Indexer utility and documented the use of the new utility to index a help book (“Indexing Your Help Book”).

 

Updated character encoding information to specify UTF-8 (“Specifying Character Encoding”).

 

Added some information about localizing help books (“Localizing Your Help Book”).

 

Revised procedures for registering your help book to use Xcode rather than Project Builder (“Help Book Registration”).

2004-06-28

Added revision history. Updated with new location of Apple Help Indexing Tool. Updated cross-references.

2003-05-15

Revision of preliminary version.




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