Hebrew support in Helpstudio

Hi all, I'm considering using Helpstudio for an online help/PDF solution I need to create in Hebrew. I was wondering what the appropriate way to configure a Hebrew (or other RTL - right-to-left language) project in Helpstudio. I've set the locale to Hebrew, and modified the Normal style with "dir=rtl", and while body texts indeed appear in the right alignment and direction, headers in the CHM and PDF are still aligned to the left. Other issues include: - Topic names appear as question marks ("?") in the CHM navigation tree. - How can I configure the actual navigation in the compiled help/PDF? (for example, the "Table of Contents/Index/Search" buttons in the navigation pane). They obviously need to be in Hebrew... Thanks, Uri

Matt Bates 03 August 2011 07:23

I apologise for any inconvenience this problem may have caused you.

The HTML Help 1.x viewer is not unicode compliant, you will need to set your Content Encoding (this option is available in the locale editor) to a specific language (that matches the one language that you are authoring in).

The text in the HTML Help 1.x & PDF viewers will follow the Windows system language.

Regarding the headers issue you will need to create custom booklet and topic templates (tutorial movie available here: http://www.innovasys.com/movies/viewmoviefeed.aspx?id=8527235f-aba8-4b93-bf0a-41877bb69c1b) and modify the headers and footers in the template.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

Hebrew support in Helpstudio

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