Online help vs Local Help file

Hi,
With Acrobat X Standard, is it possible to configure the help in order to point to a local file and not get it from the web?
If not, can I add my own sub menu in the help menu?
Regards,
Nicolas

Yes you can. Learn how here: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/add_custom_menu_items

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How to use online help instead of local help files?

I know that if I am looking for help in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, I can hit F1 or go to Help -> Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Help...
However, I do not like that doing that sends me to the limited help files that are stored on my local drive. I would like that link to default to the online help.
Is there any way to do that?
The real reason I want to do this is because I use Mozilla Firefox and tightly control the cookies that sites save on my computer. For sites that I trust, I simply add them to the whitelist. However, I am unable to add file:///C:etc.etc. to my whitelist, so I have to approve 5-8 cookies every time I go to another page within the help files. This is extremely annoying.
In regards to this local help default over internet help, Adobe has said:
The Help menu within the product opens local Help, a subset of the content available in online product Help. Because local Help is not as complete or up-to-date as online product Help, Adobe recommends that you use the PDF version of product Help if you want to stay off-line.
But what if I don't want to use the "subset of the content available in online product Help" and prefer to simply go to the online product Help just like every other Adobe CS4 product?

You could add a custom menu item to the Help menu that executes the following line of code:
// Acrobat 9 Pro Help
app.launchURL("http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/index.html");
See this tutorial for more information: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/add_custom_menu_items

Questions about using skins in online and local help

Caveat: I'm a very new RoboHelp users, somewhat self-taught, so my questions may be very rudamentary, but I can't quite find them in the (very meager) Adobe help.
In a previous version of the Help (created by my predecessor), the local Help (.chm) looked like this, i.e., no skins:
The online Help looked like this--i.e., it had the skin:
First question: why doesn't the local help have the skin? Is this a setting?
Second question: In a newer version of the help that I created, both versions of help look like the local Help above--no skins. How do I make the skins display?
Third question: We localized to French. When I open FR online Help and right-click a help topic (to open in a new tab) the page displays as below, with the "Montrer" standing in for what is "< Show Contents" in English (see below). This content is incorrect in French, and should be "Afficher le sommaire" ("Show Summary").
Where do I find the source for this piece of content, so that I can correct it? I've looked in the skins file, but didn't see anything that would qualify.

Okay, so I read through the second bit you sent, Rick (after a few deep breathing exercises!) and understand that somehow, we need to change how the developer calls the URL ... yes?
Oh, and the default file I select is the one that is automatically opened, yes? So at least that's going right.
Inside your help, you have a few folders with topics inside each folder. So if you just issue the basic http://www.somesite.com URL, all you get is the default topic. But you want Topic13.htm which happens to be inside folder C. Now you could link directly as inhttp://www.somesite.com/Help/FolderC/Topic13.htm and that would present Topic13.htm but it would not have the frameset (skin) surrounding it. Instead, it would likely have a "Show" link. And when the user clicked the Show link, the full frameset would appear and Topic13.htm would then be loaded in the topic pane.
To make this happen with a basic link, the URL would look like this:
http://www.somesite.com/Help/Index.htm#Folder C/Topic13.htm
And this refers to the remote help, not the local CHM, yes?
Historically, I just give them the location of the files, i.e, they're at: http/onlinehelp.companysite.com/help/productname/version/language/mjwin_help.htm (which is the name we've been using, though I will someday want to change that as it references an older version of the brand ... but first things first).
I ran a test in which I I generated and posted the files to the correct location on the server (and identified the default topic I wanted in the SSL). I sent this exact URL to the developer to include in this morning's build. According to what you have indicated, since I'm not asking the Help to do anything but open up to the default topic, I should get a) the default topic and b) the skins.
I did not get this result.
Could there be something going on on the developer end? I ask this because I had problems with Map IDs, which turned out to be that they weren't telling me that some UI elements called context-sensitive help and therefore those pages needed to be linked to the correct map ID. (Like me, some of the members of that department are new to their positions ...)
Kasey (still tearing hair out ...)

No local help files for Photoshop CS6 extended

Hi
I wish to use local help files for Photoshop CS6 but only online support is available. Local files are not listed under the Adobe Help preferences. The option to search only local rather than online help is greyed out. I found and downloaded a PDF with of the help files but don't know where to install it or if this is possible. I have CS 5 Creative Suite and this works fine giving the option of local or online help when accessed.
Is there a way to install and use local help files in photoshop CS6?
Thank you.

Hi and thanks for directing me to that article, it should have done the trick. I am using mac mountain lion 10.8.5.
The help system has always operated oddly - I have Photoshop cs6 but also the cs5 master suite installed. CS5 works fine but Photoshop cs6 only gives the option for online help and then directs me to the CC site. There is no simple listing for just Photoshop help in the help menu - presumably as it is not seeing it installed
I tried various configurations in the article, having to set up the folders they suggested. In my case, in a variety of alternative places as I have a boot up volume with the documents folder moved onto a RAID array so the Shared folder is not in the documents folder but in Users on the boot drive. So - confusing - but tried all the likely candidates and folder configurations/locations while following the instructions as closely as possible. Even tried an documents folder alias to redirect the program to the alternative path way.
At least now I have the PDFs and can look through them outside the adobe interface. The problem with the community site being questions regarding photoshop alone, yield answers for all sort of other issues and programs.
Thanks for your help though, which should have worked, appreciated.

Local help files for CS5 products (Illustrator in particular)

I have read through the discussions, but I want to find a SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD way to set up my CS5 programs to access help files locally, rather than through the web.
- I have found .PDF help files online, but there is no apparent way to link them to the program, and it did not come up as an option during installation. References to setting up a help-related .XML file neglect the fact that, at least in my installation, the .XML does not exist, so I suspect the program does not point to it ...
Any helpful comments, including knowledge that I cannot access local help from within the program and should stop looking, would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Monty Wood

Hello, your machine is not connected to the net? Usually, it is best to download the help after install, then disconnect from the net, but I understand that there are some machines that cannot be connected at any moment.

CS4 - no longer local help files???

I recently upgraded to CS4, and it seems that when I try to access the help system it goes off to a web site instead of using local help files on my hard disk. This is extremely annoying because:
1. I often work on airplanes and other places where Internet access is just plain not available.
2. Accessing remote servers over the Internet is painfully slow. I feel like I'm waiting for paint to dry when I access help.
Is there a way to get CS4 to put its help system on my local hard disk?

Be advised that the following will also disable other online apps such as Kuler.
To disable access to online services using the Connections panel:
Open your Adobe CS4 application.
Choose Window > Extensions > Connections. This will open the Connections panel.
Click the Connections panel menu flyout and then choose Offline Options.
Select Keep Me Offline.
Click OK.
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How do I set the HELP menu to use Indesign's local HELP files on the hard drive and not the web?

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CS 5.0 launches the internet browser. > TO SLOW I DONT WANT THIS.
CS 3.0 uses the local help files > I WANT THIS FOR 5.0.

You're not speaking to the right forum for your request. Help is a Suite-wide feature and here is the forum where the Help application is discussed, and where the proper Adobe people hang out:
Community Help Application

CS5 - Local Help Files missing

While I was without internet recently, I was unable to browse local help files for Photoshop and Flash Catalyst in my new copy of Creative Suite 5
- Design premium.
I wa prompted to set preferences to browse offline help, and that did not working. Poking around in the actual folders showed me there were missing help files!
Also, the help files I did have all had the word "DRAF" in red at the top! Pretty poor quality control!
Where can I get the updated help files?

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there are no help files
the error says to reinstall the whole software.
i tried reinstalling but the help files are still not there
pls help

CS5 local help files

I understand how the Community help application can download local help files but I'm on dial-up at home and the Photoshop local help file, for example, shows as over 27 MB. The PDF version here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/index.html is 40 MB. I have access to a broadband connection away from home and could download to a flash drive. Questions: are local help files available for manual download? If so, where and how? Once downloaded, where would they be stored in a typical Windows installation so that they'd be available when I choose Help and choose the local help option? Or, put another way, where does the Adobe Help application store them once downloaded and decompressed?

I think I found the answer for you:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/849/cpsid_84992.html
In short, help files are stored here:
Windows:
%appdata%\chc.4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1\Local Store\
Mac OS:
[user name]/Library/Preferences/chc.4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1/Local Store/
Can't say I've tried what you're trying, but I was looking for the location of the downloaded help (because I prefer to view it in my browser) and found your question in my searching.
Hope that helps.

How to install local help files

I'm trying to install local help files for Papervision API so, when I click on for example a class name, there is a link to the documentation in the dynamic help. Does anybody know?

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I made a website, but have now deleted it in order to take it down. However, after deleting it, the website is still online? Can anyone help me figure out how to remove the site completely?

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You posted in the iPad forum instead of the MacBook Pro forum. To get answers to your question, next time post in the proper forum. See https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa I'll request that Apple relocate your post.
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