help installing gimp help

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Apr 22, 2009, 3:27:08 PM4/22/09

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gimp is installed and gimp help downloaded and unzipped, but --- how
do I install the help files to connect with gimp.
Using Windows
Thanks
sob789

rich

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Apr 23, 2009, 2:19:44 PM4/23/09

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Did you get the help files from:

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/old.html

The help for gimp 2.6.x is still on the way so the most recent is for
gimp 2.4

It will install in gimp 2.6 and any differences are easy to work around.

If you have several files - 1 zip (unzip to get the .exe) + bin files
this is the international help. There is a note regarding installation -
keep all the files together. For english get the single file at the
bottom of the page.

Run the helpxxx.exe file and it will find the copy of gimp you installed.

Start gimp, go to edit -> preferences -> help system and check that you
have "locally installed" set - should be the default setting.
Below that select "Web Browser"
AFAIK the gimp 2.4 help browser does not work in gimp 2.6. The help files
should start up IE.

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rich

jo.y...@gmail.com

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Apr 27, 2009, 7:13:23 PM4/27/09

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Hey,
normally, i don't look to manuals for software, i do it only after a
while of playing with these.
by pure case i found one of this days the "Gimp-docs", a kind of
manual-installer for the gimp on MAC OSX:
anyway, after installing the help-files (the installer has done his
job, because i found the newly-added help-files) i fired up gimp.
Until here, all was gone well.

Now i expected to use the internal help-files instead the Internet
browser,
but on trying if the new option works, i get the follow dialog: no
help files installed! with two buttons: use the manual on web? or
something like that, and Cancel. Strange.. How todo to install the
manual??
(MAC OSX)

rich

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Apr 28, 2009, 5:08:09 AM4/28/09

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Unfortunately I only know one person with a Mac and he does not use
Gimp...

I'm a bit like you and do not usually have help installed, but I know a
bit about the windows version from the past and from helping users at a
local computer club.

Whatever OS you use Gimp help is just a pile of html pages so whether you
use the built in gimp help browser or a web browser is mainly personal
preference.

To see what happens in linux I have just installed gimp-help which says
it is ver 2.4.1-1.
Not a lot of use to you but it works perfectly with gimp 2.6.6.

What might be of use is where it installs the files, which in linux is /
usr/share/gimp/2.0/en/...

Perhaps if you fire up your web browser and try and find ...../gimp/2.0/
en/index.html (or if your language is not english the equivalent to
<en> ) it might shed some light as to why help is not working. Maybe they
have been installed in the wrong place.

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rich

rich

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Apr 28, 2009, 5:18:53 AM4/28/09

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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:08:09 +0000, rich wrote:

sorry, the path should of course be (missed the 'help' out)

/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html

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rich

jo.y...@gmail.com

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Apr 28, 2009, 3:53:43 PM4/28/09

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Hey, thanks for your help, rich!
Gimp uses the web-browser to show the local installed help.
my settings are: (under preferences>help)

Manual
.use local help
Visualize via
.web browser (!)

now works.