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Apple Guide Complete: Designing and Developing Onscreen Assistance

If you've been waiting to give your users more than just onscreen reference information, now you can with Apple Guide, Apple Computer's innovative help delivery system. With Apple Guide, you can produce guide files that actually lead users, step by step, through complex tasks and concepts. If you want to provide task-oriented, context-specific instructions, Apple Guide gives you the ease and flexibility to do so. You'll learn about the complete cycle of designing, scripting, and coding guide files in these four parts of the book:

• an overview of Apple Guide features, plus extensive design tips and examples
• complete instructions on how to build, test, and localize guide files
• information on integrating help files into your application using Apple Guide's API
• a complete reference for all the commands in Guide Script, the authoring language used to create your source files

Guide Maker, the software you use to build and test guide files, is also available on the Web at

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Availability: Click below to obtain Apple Guide Complete in any of the following formats.

Acrobat (10.2 MB).

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Book Contents

Figures, Tables, and Listings

Preface - About This Book

Part 1 - Designing Guide Files

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Apple Guide

Chapter 2 - Authoring Tips and Suggestions

Chapter 3 - Planning Your Help Content

Part 2 - Building Guide Files

Chapter 4 - Introduction to Guide Maker

Chapter 5 - Creating Your Guide File

Chapter 6 - Testing Your Guide File

Chapter 7 - Localizing Your Guide File

Chapter 8 - Converting Windows Help Files

Part 3 - Integrating Guide Files

Chapter 9 - Apple Guide API

Part 4 - Scripting Guide Files

Chapter 10 - Guide Script Command Reference

Appendixes

Appendix A - Guide Script Command Abbreviations

Appendix B - Guide Script Commands and Parameters Quick Reference

Appendix C - SurfWriter Guide and Its Source Files

Appendix D - Checklist

Glossary