How Apple Help Works and How It Doesn’t
Before High Sierra, Help Manager was troubled by several bugs, and had become unreliable prior to its major revision in 10.13.4. Since then further bugs have come and gone; among the more troublesome are those in Big Sur and Monterey, which can prevent a Help book from opening, or, if it does eventually open, the book displays completely blank pages.
Although those appear to have resolved in Ventura, three issues remain[…]
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Because HelpViewer is a separate app, sometimes Stage Manager considers the Help window is another window owned by the parent app, and sometimes it’s treated as belonging to a different app. These inconsistencies are gradually being ironed out as Stage Manager matures.
Previously:
- Help Compiler
- Stage Manager in macOS 13.0
- Why Won’t That Help Book Open?
- Authoring Mac Help Books in 2020
- Many Tricks Help Viewer
Update (2023-05-22): Mario Guzman:
Just finished what is probably the biggest update to my blog post “Authoring macOS Help Books in 2020 (and beyond)”
I haven’t added a full Localization process just yet but will soon.
