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Help files not accessibile Florio 20 Dec 14:34
  Help files not accessibile Daniel Hornung 20 Dec 16:21
  Help files not accessibile Noel Stoutenburg 20 Dec 23:31
   Help files not accessibile jstavast 21 Dec 06:38
    Help files not accessibile Florio 21 Dec 18:25
     Help files not accessibile jstavast 22 Dec 00:27
Florio
2008-12-20 14:34:37 UTC (about 16 years ago)
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Help files not accessibile

Hi there.
I'm new to GIMP, but have already watched a number of tutorials on YouTube etc and it seems an excellent program. When I downloaded GIMP, I also downloaded the help file (single file in English), which I then installed. The problem is that when I press F1 for help, I get the following message:
"The GIMP user manual is not installed on your computer. You may either install the additional help package or change your preferences to use the online version."
I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working?

Daniel Hornung
2008-12-20 16:21:52 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Help files not accessibile

On Saturday 20 December 2008, Florio wrote:

I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working?

Hello!

The documentation/ help usually has to be installed separately. You should be able find it at the same places from you got GIMP.

I hope this helps,

Daniel

Noel Stoutenburg
2008-12-20 23:31:28 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Help files not accessibile

Florio wrote:

Hi there.
I'm new to GIMP, but have already watched a number of tutorials on YouTube etc and it seems an excellent program. When I downloaded GIMP, I also downloaded the help file (single file in English), which I then installed. The problem is that when I press F1 for help, I get the following message:...... I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working?

I asked a similar question a few weeks ago, and was told it's a known issue in 2.6.x, and if I remember correctly, is to be addressed in an upcoming release. Meantime, since I know it installed on my system, and since I know it is an [set of] html files, I simply point my internet brower [I prefer Seamonkey, but the same technique should work with any browser] to the top level of the help files on my system, and bookmarked it. When I need to open the local help files, I simply open the browser, and click on the link.

ns

jstavast
2008-12-21 06:38:18 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Help files not accessibile

Florio wrote:

Hi there.
I'm new to GIMP, but have already watched a number of tutorials on

YouTube

etc and it seems an excellent program. When I downloaded GIMP, I also downloaded the help file (single file in English), which I then installed. The problem is that when I press F1 for help, I get the following message:...... I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working?

If you go to Edit > Preferences > Help System you can set the option to use the local copy of the help instead of the online version. You can also specify what browser to use for viewing the help.

Florio
2008-12-21 18:25:44 UTC (about 16 years ago)
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Help files not accessibile

Thanks for the tip. Tried that, but am now getting the following message: "The GIMP help browser is not available.The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages." I have installed the help files, so cannot really understand why Gimp doesn't open them. What and where is the browser plug-in?

Florio wrote:

Hi there.
I'm new to GIMP, but have already watched a number of tutorials on

YouTube

etc and it seems an excellent program. When I downloaded GIMP, I also downloaded the help file (single file in English), which I then installed. The problem is that when I press F1

for

help, I get the following message:...... I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using

the

online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working?

If you go to Edit > Preferences > Help System you can set the option to use the local copy of the help instead of the online version. You can also specify what browser to use for viewing the help.

jstavast
2008-12-22 00:27:02 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Help files not accessibile

Thanks for the tip. Tried that, but am now getting the following message:

"The

GIMP help browser is not available.The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to

be

missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages." I have installed the help files, so cannot really understand why Gimp doesn't open them. What and where is the browser

plug-in?

I believe the GIMP help browser is just another way of viewing html files. In reading items on the web it looks like it the browser is not included in the default Windows build if that is the OS that you have. See this post http://svenfoo.geekheim.de/2008/07/07/online-help-for-gimp-26/

I just use Firefox for browsing the help from my locally installed files. It is really quick and it is in a browser I am familiar with.

Jim