X6 Open Offline Help File script

[Tony Lenton]

Does anyone know how to stop X6 downloading the help file and the User Guide PDF from the internet every time that I want to view these from inside X6?

All these files are installed on my PC so why does X6 insist on conecting to the internet for them? I know that if I disconect from the internet (but why should I Corel?) the help files load off my hard drive but if I click on Help/User Guide (PDF) I get "File not found".

[LeviFiction]

The online files will always be the most up to date, though I don't know if they update often.

PSP does not have a default "always use offline" help option. So if you want to use the offline help just set a bookmark while offline. Then use that bookmark when you need to access the help.

If you absolutely have to access the help from inside PSP it's possible to create a script that will open the offline help files and bind that to the menu.

In fact by using a script you can get the help files to open in your default browser.

This same method can be used to open the PDF.

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1) Open Notepad, and add a file to your Scripts-Trusted folder called "Offline-Help.PSPScript" make sure to have the file type set to All Types *.* so that it doesn't add a .txt extension to the end of it.

If you don't know where the scripts-trusted folder is you can find out by opening PSP and going to File -> Preferences -> File Locations

2) Then paste in the following code

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from PSPApp import *
import os

def ScriptProperties():
    return {
        'Author': u'',
        'Copyright': u'',
        'Description': u'',
        'Host': u'PaintShop Pro',
        'Host Version': u'16.00'
        }

def Do(Environment):
        os.startfile('file:///C:/ProgramData/Corel/Corel%20PaintShop%20Pro%20X6/Languages/EN/Help/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Corel-PaintShop-Pro-intro-page.html')

If you use a different language than EN you will have to update the URL to match your needs.

3) Then with PSP open go to View -> Customize

4) Click the Scripts tab

5) Then select the Offline-Help from the scripts and give it an Icon. Click Bind button to make it available for use.

6) With the customize dialog still open click the Help menu. When the menu opens, click and drag the Bound script from the bottom list of the dialog into the help menu.

7) You can then right-click on the new menu item and select 'Button Appearance" to rename the text if you want, or to turn off the bound script icon.

And then you'll have a menu item for the offline help files specifically.

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I then downloaded the PDF Guide and placed it in the Public Documents folder. Finally I adjusted the script to use the PDF location. This will open the PDF in your default PDF viewer. I saved this as Offline-PDF.PSPScript.

The name isn't important but it helps you to find it later and differentiate the function.

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from PSPApp import *
import os

def ScriptProperties():
    return {
        'Author': u'',
        'Copyright': u'',
        'Description': u'',
        'Host': u'PaintShop Pro',
        'Host Version': u'16.00'
        }

def Do(Environment):
        os.startfile('C:\Users\Public\Documents\CorelPaintShopPro.pdf')

Just follow the same instructions to add this to the help menu as well.

[Radim]

Excellent.

[Tony Lenton]

Thanks LeviFiction, works perfectly. Have also done the same for the Scripting Guide.

[Dizzie]

Thank Levi! Is there any way to get it to open in IE and NOT my default browser? My default browser is Chrome and it won't display in Chrome. but does perfectly in IE.

[Dizzie]

I went looking for the pdf file and couldn't find it so I downloaded the file from Corel and it fixed it to where when I click on the Help file it opens it from my hard drive in IE and not downloading it from online.
http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index. ... id=7100001

[JudyM]

I have repeatedly tried to download the help files without success. I have dropped my internet security to try to enable the download.
Why not a zipped file rather than an exe file?
Can anyone help?

Also where do I access the scripting guide?
I keep going around in circles without finding a link.
My program is registered and I have signed in as a member...In fact I can find no link for any extra content.
Tearing my hair out here
Judy

[Kathy_9]

You can go to Corel.com, sign into your account and under Products, click on Downloads for Members & Subscribers. Here you will find the KPT plug-ins, scripting guide and Creative Content downloads.