On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Heleen Haarsma wrote:

When I choose help or manual I have to choose a location to store files (or a file).
After that I get a message with a red cross every time I try (Uitvoerfout voor procedure 'plug-in-web-browser': Failed to open
'file:///C:/Program%20Files/GIMP-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/help/nl/index.html': The specified path was not found.)
And no help or manual is availble to me and effectiively Gimp is not available to me as I'am a new user and do not know my way around yet.

Hope you can help me, otherwise it is the end of my Gimp experience. Kind regards

Heleen Haarsma

Please be more specific. Please tell us more about your working environment.

- OS (ok, Windows, which version...) - Version of GIMP
- Installed how
- Help files
- taken where
- installed how
- and where on the disk

And you still be able to consult the help on-line:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/nl/

or configuring GIMP to read the help manual on-line by itself, useful for enabling the context sensistive help...

bye

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:46:26PM +0200, Heleen Haarsma wrote:

That are a lot of questions. Just leave it. I followed instrucions from the download page.

ok

I installed Gimp a few days ago. What do mean by "how"?

using the windows package I suppose...

I'm using XP.

ok

I have no problem installing Gimp, my problem is only withe the documentation: when asked I choose a directory (I think for some HTML-file). Once chosen help won't open.

The package does not include the documentation. You have to download it somewhere in your "C:" disk and then move it in the "right" position that happens to be (in your "windows" case") Have you tried to download the windows automated package? For Dutch is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20Help%202/GIMP%20Help%202.6.0%20(updated%20installer)/gimp-help-2-2.6.0-nl-setup.exe/download

When installed leave the installation place the default. In this way GIMP will automatically find it.
Then check that GIMP is correctly set going in to: Edit->Preferences->Help->User manual->Use locally installed version. If it is set defferently, set it correctly then CLOSE GIMP and RESTART GIMP before re-try with the help key "F1".

I wanted the fils in a sudirectory under "my docements".

Then I suggest you to leave it in the place where I have just showed you (to make the GIMP "intelligent" help feature work...) and make a "link" to it in the "my documents" directory (open "my documents"-> mouse-> right-click-> new-> link etc. etc.) You will find the help files in:

C:\program files\gimp-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\help\nl\index.html

PS: maybe "program files" is different in Dutch...

bye