Inside Macintosh: Apple Guide Complete / Part 2 - Building Guide Files

Chapter 5 - Creating Your Guide File

Once you have designed and scripted your online assistance, you are ready to create your guide file. This chapter tells you how.

It describes how to

• prepare your source files
• build your guide file (that is, compile your source files into a guide file)
• set compile options
• interpret compile messages

This chapter also describes how you can create a mixin for an existing guide file.

To get the most out of this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of Apple Guide, know how to script a Guide Script source file, and be familiar with the Guide Maker application. For more information on these subjects, see Part 1, Part 4, and the first chapter of Part 2, respectively.

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Chapter Contents

Preparing Your Source Files

Building Your Guide File in Four Steps

Setting Compile Options

Checking the Syntax of Your Source Files

Interpreting the Compile Messages

Other Utilities

Importing and Exporting Resources

Specifying Guide File Information

Creating a Mixin for Your Guide File