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I might as well throw this in: I think both Adobe's ExtendScript Editor and its novelty “Help” viewer blow, big time! I use TextPad on the PC, TextWrangler on the Mac. Wot — then you don't have access to the Help? Luckily, I found all the text of the Help files is stored into a single *huge* XML file, and using an XSLT transform I was able to convert all of it to a coherent set of HTML files, and compile that again — an idea of fellow scripter ABC GREEN — into a Windows CHM Help file, getting indexed and full text search for free!

I also added loads and loads of extra hyperlinks, and an incredibly useful — if you don't mind me saying so :-) — hierarchical view per object. That's how I can tell right away what parent-child relations are for all classes. The XSLT transform file is 2490 lines, at present…

You can download either HTML or CHM sets, for CS3, CS4 or CS5, from my site: https://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html

The Windows CHM version is the most user-friendly. On Windows, you don't need anything else; for the Mac, you need a CHM viewer (I use Robin Lu's iCHM For Mac — https://www.robinlu.com/blog/ichm –, it's almost as good as the Windows help but much easier on the eyes :-D ).

This article was last modified on June 11, 2010

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