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Apple Help is the name of the user help application provided in Mac OS X.

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how to unregister Mac app help book

I registered help book for my app, then in the following days, I updated the help book, but when I execute my app, the help book is still the old version, it's not updated, is there any way to unregister help book? or let it update?
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Apple Help Book tutorial

Can somebody point me to an up to date tutorial on how to create a help book for Cocoa application. Everything I've found online is old and outdated and the Apple documentation doesn't make it any clearer. One specific thing I can't figure out is…
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How to create .help file for mac application help?

I am trying to make the help support for my mac application. I made the XHTML, HTML and the .helpIndex file. But I dont know how to make the .help file. My question is what is .help file? and how to make the .help file? I am studying in the…
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Diagnosing Mac Help keyword indexing?

I am having difficulty coaxing the "Help → Search" function of my application to show topics related to the useful (and unique) keywords in my application. Only one keyword shows up. Background: I created several html help pages (examples: index,…
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Anchors in help-book not working

I've double checked everything and hoping someone can find a stupid mistake that I'm not seeing. I'm trying to build a Apple Help section for my application and it correctly goes to the landing page however none of the anchors work. The landing…
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NSHelpManager/AHGotoPage failure in macOS Sierra

I try to open a help book within a system preference pane using AHRegisterHelpBook and AHGotoPage. It works under OS 10.9, but fails under 10.12. OSStatus err = AHGotoPage( CFSTR("AutoPairs Help"), NULL, NULL ); Specifically, the calls return…
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macOS Apple Help Authoring - Anchors

I'm trying to make an Apple Help book for my macOS app that I'm ready to release. However, I am trying to make anchors work in my HTML. By Apple's definition: "Anchors allow you to uniquely identify topics in your help book. When a user follows…
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Creating a localised mac help book file (.help)

I had created the help for my app in just one language in a folder and it worked. I've tried and failed to localise this content and add a Spanish translation. My understanding of Apples Guide to creating a help book is that I need to create a .help…
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Debugging Help Book ("The selected topic is currently unavailable")

Right - so I've created a help book, did all the right things, double-checked my plist and index.html files, and all I get is the notorious The selected topic is currently unavailable. The only entry in Console when attempting to open the help…
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Do Apple help book files look for @2x images on retina screens

Do Apple help books, of the MyApp.help format (included in the app bundle), authored for inclusion in OS X apps (from the Help menu) look for *@2x.png images on retina screens? I don't see any mention of this in the Apple Help Authoring guide or…
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Can docbook generate output in Apples Help Book format

Can docbook output in Apples Help Book format, I know I can generate html, pdf ectera but what about Apples Help Book format (which is the standard format for help on OSX). EDIT:Appears it does not but in case useful to anyone this is how I worked…
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Opening Apple Help Viewer from web page

From a link on a webpage, is there a way to open Apple Help and then show a particular page? Provided the respective application is loaded on the computer (and hence its Help book), is this possible? Something like:
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Tools to create HelpBooks for Mac Apps

Bill van Hecke's Helpify is a nice tool to convert OmniOutliner documents to Apple HelpBooks. I wonder, if other tools are available to create HelpBooks, e.g. a CMS with pre-configured templates. Do you know of any HelpBook generator tools?
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Apple Help Book – Linking styles and Scripts like

I wondering whether there are some starting of templates for Apple help book. As I am not a professional programmer, however, I have come across making apple help book. First of all, I was surprised by the apple help documentation quality. The…
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