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Welcome to myManuals!
myManual is made for creating all kinds of manuals. It's for teacher wishing to have more attractive teaching aids, trainer dreaming of interesting training manuals with screenshots and software developers writing gorgeous user manuals.
With myManuals you succeed in crafting attractive manuals and templates in no time. You are free to customize the design with CSS exactly to fit your needs or your corporate design. You can export each manual to a valid webpage, PDF, XML or RTFD.
The easy-to-use and precise preview supports you in customizing your manual for any export format. In addition you can reuse text and images quite easily within new manuals.
myManual is made for creating all kinds of manuals. It's for teacher wishing to have more attractive teaching aids, trainer dreaming of interesting training manuals with screenshots and software developers writing gorgeous user manuals.
With myManuals you succeed in crafting attractive manuals and templates in no time. You are free to customize the design with CSS exactly to fit your needs or your corporate design. You can export each manual to a valid webpage, PDF, XML or RTFD.
The easy-to-use and precise preview supports you in customizing your manual for any export format. In addition you can reuse text and images quite easily within new manuals.
Short Introduction
Create a new manual in four easy steps:
1. Create new manual by pressing cmd+shift+N or use File > New Manual
2. Create new steps incl. header … footer by pressing cmd+N or use File > New Step
3. Preview a manual by pressing cmd+Y or the button in the toolbar
4. Export manual as a website or .pdf file by pressing cmd+shift+E or use File > Export Manual ..
1. Create new manual by pressing cmd+shift+N or use File > New Manual
2. Create new steps incl. header … footer by pressing cmd+N or use File > New Step
3. Preview a manual by pressing cmd+Y or the button in the toolbar
4. Export manual as a website or .pdf file by pressing cmd+shift+E or use File > Export Manual ..
Main view
Manual sheet (General view)
To create a new manual press cmd+shift+N or use File > New
Manual.
Every manual typically consists of:
· Header image
· Title … Subtitle
· Header
· Step 1
· Step 2
· Step …
· Footer
You are free to choose for each manual which sections to use. This includes images and image's subtitles as well.
Every new manual uses at first the default template specified in the preferences. But by customizing the selected manual's template you are free to make it fit your needs. The customization will not affect the default template.
One hint: In case you don't specify a background color for a manual in the template you should use JPEG as the image format. In case your image has a different format myManuals will do the conversion into JPEG or PNG for you.
Every manual typically consists of:
· Header image
· Title … Subtitle
· Header
· Step 1
· Step 2
· Step …
· Footer
You are free to choose for each manual which sections to use. This includes images and image's subtitles as well.
Every new manual uses at first the default template specified in the preferences. But by customizing the selected manual's template you are free to make it fit your needs. The customization will not affect the default template.
One hint: In case you don't specify a background color for a manual in the template you should use JPEG as the image format. In case your image has a different format myManuals will do the conversion into JPEG or PNG for you.
Step window (Body view)
To create a new step press cmd+N or use File > New
Step.
Typically each step includes:
· Header
· Image
· Body
· Footer
You are free to make use of the different sections to fit your needs. Of course you are free to add as many steps to each manual as needed and you can change the ordering of the steps as needed at any time.
It's best practice to set the font and font size in the template.
Formatting like:
· bold
· italic
· underline
can be set in the text itself.
One Hint: To add a Link use the "@"-button at the bottom or Format > Insert Link.
Typically each step includes:
· Header
· Image
· Body
· Footer
You are free to make use of the different sections to fit your needs. Of course you are free to add as many steps to each manual as needed and you can change the ordering of the steps as needed at any time.
It's best practice to set the font and font size in the template.
Formatting like:
· bold
· italic
· underline
can be set in the text itself.
One Hint: To add a Link use the "@"-button at the bottom or Format > Insert Link.
Insert an image by simply drag and drop it onto the
image-view.
myManuals supports all image formats Mac OS X can handle.
Images are automatically downsized if needed and saved in the database.
When exporting your manual as a valid webpage you should set the image format in your manual settings (Edit Manual) to JPEG.
myManuals supports all image formats Mac OS X can handle.
Images are automatically downsized if needed and saved in the database.
When exporting your manual as a valid webpage you should set the image format in your manual settings (Edit Manual) to JPEG.
Annotation view
Often you need to mark a certain aspect in a screen shot or
write some additional information (e.g. the shortcut) to a
button or you need to highlight an important part in a
construction drawing.
You can simply do this with the built-in annotation tools.
Click the 'Annotate…' button and select the desired tool.
Please notice that you can undo any step as long as the annotation-view is active…
You can simply do this with the built-in annotation tools.
Click the 'Annotate…' button and select the desired tool.
Please notice that you can undo any step as long as the annotation-view is active…
You are free to include custom HTML objects in each manual
and for each step.
This option may be used to include a 'banner' in the manual or a video in a step.
If you are going to publish the manual as a webpage on the internet you should link to an external hosted video.
If you are going to create a CD or DVD you can include the video by linking to a file with a relative path…
This option may be used to include a 'banner' in the manual or a video in a step.
If you are going to publish the manual as a webpage on the internet you should link to an external hosted video.
If you are going to create a CD or DVD you can include the video by linking to a file with a relative path…
Preview
Open the preview with cmd+Y or the button in the toolbar. Use
the preview for a final check. Make changes to the template
if needed.
Export sheet
Once your manual is ready press cmd+shift+E and choose one of
the following export formats:
· HTML (index. html | css folder | images folder)
· PDF
· RFTD
· WORD
· WEBARCHIVE
· XML
· PACKAGE (myManuals format for sharing editable manuals)
· HTML (index. html | css folder | images folder)
· RFTD
· WORD
· WEBARCHIVE
· XML
· PACKAGE (myManuals format for sharing editable manuals)
Preferences (General view)
General
AutoSave will be performed every 60 seconds.
Credit will show a small credit for myManuals.
Document settings will effect PDF export only.
Choose settings for margins, format and orientation.
Images sizes will effect saved images only.
CSS (Template)
This template will be used as default stylesheet for every new manual. Each manual can have its own stylesheet if needed (import a .css file or just overwrite the default one).
Defaults
If enabled the default settings will be applied for every new manual and step.
AutoSave will be performed every 60 seconds.
Credit will show a small credit for myManuals.
Document settings will effect PDF export only.
Choose settings for margins, format and orientation.
Images sizes will effect saved images only.
CSS (Template)
This template will be used as default stylesheet for every new manual. Each manual can have its own stylesheet if needed (import a .css file or just overwrite the default one).
Defaults
If enabled the default settings will be applied for every new manual and step.
