Sent: 2011-08-18 14:33:11 UTC (9 months ago)

From: Heleen Haarsma

Documentation does not work

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When I choose help or manual I have to choose a location to store files (or a file).
After that I get a message with a red cross every time I try (Uitvoerfout voor procedure 'plug-in-web-browser':
Failed to open 'file:///C:/Program%20Files/GIMP-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/help/nl/index.html': The specified path was not found.)
And no help or manual is availble to me and effectiively Gimp is not available to me as I'am a new user and do not know my way around yet.

Hope you can help me, otherwise it is the end of my Gimp experience.
Kind regards

Heleen Haarsma

Sent: 2011-08-18 17:09:01 UTC (9 months ago)

From: Marco Ciampa

Documentation does not work

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Heleen Haarsma wrote:
> When I choose help or manual I have to choose a location to store
> files (or a file).
> After that I get a message with a red cross every time I try
> (Uitvoerfout voor procedure 'plug-in-web-browser':
> Failed to open
> 'file:///C:/Program%20Files/GIMP-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/help/nl/index.html':
> The specified path was not found.)
> And no help or manual is availble to me and effectiively Gimp is not
> available to me as I'am a new user and do not know my way around yet.
>
> Hope you can help me, otherwise it is the end of my Gimp experience.
> Kind regards
>
> Heleen Haarsma

Please be more specific. Please tell us more about your working
environment.

- OS (ok, Windows, which version...)
- Version of GIMP
- Installed how
- Help files
- taken where
- installed how
- and where on the disk

And you still be able to consult the help on-line:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/nl/

or configuring GIMP to read the help manual on-line by itself, useful
for enabling the context sensistive help...

bye

Marco Ciampa

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Sent: 2011-08-20 17:51:25 UTC (9 months ago)

From: Marco Ciampa

Documentation does not work

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:46:26PM +0200, Heleen Haarsma wrote:
> That are a lot of questions. Just leave it.
> I followed instrucions from the download page.
ok

> I installed Gimp a few days ago. What do mean by "how"?
using the windows package I suppose...

> I'm using XP.
ok

> I have no problem installing Gimp, my problem is only withe the
> documentation: when asked I choose a directory (I think for some
> HTML-file). Once chosen help won't open.
The package does not include the documentation. You have to download it
somewhere in your "C:" disk and then move it in the "right" position
that happens to be (in your "windows" case")
Have you tried to download the windows automated package?
For Dutch is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20Help%202/GIMP%20Help%202.6.0%20(updated%20installer)/gimp-help-2-2.6.0-nl-setup.exe/download

When installed leave the installation place the default. In this way
GIMP will automatically find it.
Then check that GIMP is correctly set going in to:
Edit->Preferences->Help->User manual->Use locally installed version. If
it is set defferently, set it correctly then CLOSE GIMP and RESTART GIMP
before re-try with the help key "F1".

> I wanted the fils in a sudirectory under "my docements".

Then I suggest you to leave it in the place where I have just showed you
(to make the GIMP "intelligent" help feature work...) and make a "link"
to it in the "my documents" directory (open "my documents"-> mouse->
right-click-> new-> link etc. etc.) You will find the help files in:

C:\program files\gimp-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\help\nl\index.html

PS: maybe "program files" is different in Dutch...

bye

Marco Ciampa

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