Options Dialog

Central settings of HelpExpert are controlled in the options dialog. It is divided into two areas

the options dialog with PDF setting tab displayed

Below is a short explanation of the various options. A detailed description for each setting can be found in the context of respective setting, e.g. PDF settings are explained in more detail in ' Creating a PDF file'.

General tab

Look and feel: Switch HelpExpert's look and feel between the L&F's available on your machine.

Create search DB on save: A database for full text search will be created automatically along with the help set, when File|Save or File|Save as is selected

PDF tab

The following options apply for the creation of PDF files only

Page break until topic level: A new page is started whenever a topic is written to the PDF file, that is on a TOC level higher than or equal to the one selected by this option.

Header: Text typed into this field will appear on top of each page in the PDF file

Footer: Text typed into this field will appear at the bottom of each page in the PDF file

Header / Footer Font: The font in which the header and the footer are written to the PDF file

Header / Footer Size: The size of the font, the header and the footer are written to the PDF file

Title of TOC: Text typed into this field will appear on top of the table of contents that is automatically created at the end of each PDF file