So Question 1 is... how current are the help files?? are they at the last production release level... or at the current development release... or at some unspecified or mishmash of releases?
The help files kept locally (to your PC) are the version of the help files that correspond to the software you have.? ?The files on the web site are kept current to the latest software (maybe even newer than the most recent test release).
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Question 2 is... Why can't we just have one of our guru developers produce a script that takes the Help File contents web page as input and prints the entries to a PDF file?? Is it because of imbeded hyperlinks?
That's a non-trivial project for a couple of reasons.? ?The biggest one being that what makes a good help file entry doesn't necessarily make for a good linear format book.? When I want to learn a language, I don't start with the dictionary.? ?I'll keep one around, because I'll use it.? ?But the process of understanding syntax and meaning goes beyond a definition.? ?Help file entries are much closer to a reference definition of what a thing does than to a textual explanation of how something ought to be used.
There's also a purely mechanical issue of making something cobbled together in that fashion usable (with an index, or table of contents).? ?That's hard too.? ?
david zuhn