{"id":39384,"date":"2023-05-15T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39384"},"modified":"2023-05-22T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:52:20","slug":"how-apple-help-works-and-how-it-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/15\/how-apple-help-works-and-how-it-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple Help Works and How It Doesn&rsquo;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/05\/11\/how-help-works-and-how-it-doesnt\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/05\/11\/how-help-works-and-how-it-doesnt\/\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Although those appear to have resolved in Ventura, three issues remain[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Because HelpViewer is a separate app, sometimes Stage Manager considers the Help window is another window owned by the parent app, and sometimes it&rsquo;s treated as belonging to a different app. These inconsistencies are gradually being ironed out as Stage Manager matures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/help-compiler\/\">Help Compiler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/25\/stage-manager-in-macos-13-0\/\">Stage Manager in macOS 13.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/17\/why-wont-that-help-book-open\/\">Why Won&rsquo;t That Help Book Open?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/authoring-mac-help-books-in-2020\/\">Authoring Mac Help Books in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/many-tricks-help-viewer\/\">Many Tricks Help Viewer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"how-apple-help-works-and-how-it-doesnt-update-2023-05-22\">Update (2023-05-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/110408834056573699\">Mario Guzman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/110408834056573699\"><p>Just finished what is probably the biggest update to my blog post &ldquo;Authoring macOS Help Books in 2020 (and beyond)&rdquo;<\/p><p>I haven&rsquo;t added a full Localization process just yet but will soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-15T19:53:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"a0ec3c08-43be-4745-bfdd-5e255e78d144","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-22T19:52:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AoOw8CEO-R0W_3V4lXnjRRA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1658,131,1529,1891,2077,2223,2224],"class_list":["post-39384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-help","tag-bug","tag-macos-10-13","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-12","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-stage-manager"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39461,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384\/revisions\/39461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}