Select help browser (AI10 MacOS10.2.x )

[Tez]

Henry <henryn@zzzspacebbs.com> wrote:
Folks: AI 10 MacOS 10.2.x. I finally trashed IE for Safari...or did I? D'oh! AI continues to use IE for help viewing. I've set Safari in the Internet Preferences as the "default web browser". I can't find any place in AI preferences to change the help viewer. Am I just blind, or what? How do you select the browser that's used to view AI help? Thanks, Henry henryn@zzzspacebbs.com remove 'zzz' antispam


Hi Henry, I did it by going here

Computer/Library/Application Support/Adobe/SVG Viewer 3.0/

In that folder you will find an html file called "SVGHelp.html" which
will have an explore icon. Choose get info from the file menu and in the
"open with" menu use the drop down to select the browser of your choice.
Close the Get info window and that should be sorted. if it doesnt work
then post back and ill check what I did again.

Tez

[henryn]

Tez:

Thanks for your response to my post:

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nospam@thiscomputer.thanks wrote on 7/13/03 4:39 AM:
Henry <henryn@zzzspacebbs.com> wrote: Folks: AI 10 MacOS 10.2.x. I finally trashed IE for Safari...or did I? D'oh! AI continues to use IE for help viewing. I've set Safari in the Internet Preferences as the "default web browser". I can't find any place in AI preferences to change the help viewer. Am I just blind, or what?
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Hi Henry, I did it by going here Computer/Library/Application Support/Adobe/SVG Viewer 3.0/ In that folder you will find an html file called "SVGHelp.html" which will have an explore icon. Choose get info from the file menu and in the "open with" menu use the drop down to select the browser of your choice. Close the Get info window and that should be sorted. if it doesnt work then post back and ill check what I did again.

Right, thanks, I tried that. This solution is ineffective until I added
"Use this application to open all documents like this." Now I would expect
all .html file on my system (about 4500, excluding backups) will open in
Safari.

Not exactly. Files with a .html extension and a type associated with
another browser (e.g. Netscape) still open with Netscape.

It's a bit heavy-handed, but I _did_ want to get rid of IE, and I still have
a reason to maintain Netscape.

Some observations:

--Most applications that use "helpers" have a preference somewhere to set
which helper to use, if there is a a choice. I can't locate such a
preference for AI, either as a regular preference or by way of some kind of
auxiliary file.

--AI apparently says, "use whatever application is associated with the help
file". This is either quite clever or quite short-sighted.

--AI's help files are apparently subsumed in that mystery called an
"Application Package", not accessible to ordinary mortals -- and I'm not
sure I want to go in there. (There's some utilities that will help, I
think, but ...life is too short.) Anyway, I would imagine that once inside,
changing the the get-info "open with" for just these help files would do the
trick.

Thanks,

Henry

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Tez